| Target Audience: | Curious tinkerers who live in the terminal and build their own workflows |
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| Value Proposition: | Keyboard-centric, single monitor workflow with superior Vim Motions editing experience |
| Product Link: | Not applicable |
| Demonstration Link: | Blog post coming soon! |
| Source Repository: | github.com/ammaraldawood/dotfiles |
| Influenced By: | Josean Martinez |
Technology Stack
- Programming Languages:
- Lua: Neovim configuration language.
- Shell: Zsh scripts and terminal customization.
- Core Technologies:
- Neovim: Text editor centered around Vim Motions.
- Tmux: Terminal multiplexer and sessionizer.
- Ghostty: Terminal emulator with shader support.
- Git: Version control.
- Homebrew: Package management.
Project Learnings/Skills
Software Architecture: Managing the interplay of different programs and their respective plugins and themes, resolving conflicts and optimizing user experience. For example, installing bioSyntax which is available for Vim and making it available to Neovim through a Lua function call.
Shell Scripting: Creating aliases and custom shell functions that perform repetitive tasks and multi-step operations using a single-word command. For example, ‘cld’ which concatenates the contents of the latest downloaded file using bat.
Command Line Fluency: Introduced to countless terms and paradigms that I had to look up while working on this setup, some of which I might not have run into otherwise, including fuzzy search, inodes, size vs blocksize, symlinks, ripgrep, glob operators, globbing flags, aliasing, regex, environment variables and makefiles, amongst others.