ll-presentation-2023-07-20.md

"Living" in the Terminal

Low-effort, low-config, command line based tooling

 kloia / Efe Hakan Gencoglu

Topics:

1. Terminals
2. Fonts
3. Shell & Auto-complete
4. Prompts
5. CLI Tools
6. dotfile Management
7. Other Goodies

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1. Terminal (emulators*)

• Kitty
  • performance
  • low latency
  • cross-platform
  • easy configuration
• ITerm2
  • macOS native feeling
  • practically zero configuration
• Windows Terminal
  • Windows native feeling
  • neat integration with WSL2 (running vms in windows)
• WezTerm
  • performance
  • cross-platform
  • high level of customization (lua)

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2. Fonts

Nerd Fonts allow you to do this:

--->  kloia

Easily installed with:

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install font-jetbrains-mono-nerd-font

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3. Shells & Auto-complete

• fish
  • built in Auto-Complete
  • low configuration needed
  • ⚠️ not-bash compatible
    • seems like a con, but you can always bash -c
• zsh
  • macOS default
  • large ecosystem
  • auto-complete via zsh-autocomplete
• bash
  • good ol' bash
  • universal

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4. Prompts

• starship.rs
  • gives you quick feedback on your environment

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5. CLI Tools

• Modern Unix
  • classic unix tools rewritten for modern systems
  • fzf
    • fuzzy finder for piping stuff
  • cat -> bat
    • content aware cat
  • ls -> exa
    • colors, icons, .gitignore support
    • kinda hard to type, I alias it to "ll"
  • find -> fd
    • alternative to find
  • ...and more
• slides
  • simple markdown slideshows on terminal

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6. dotfile Management

• chezmoi
  • simple interface
  • powerful customizations as needed
    • go template support
    • pulling other git repositories
    • running commands on every sync
• dotbare
  • bare git repo based dotfile solution

7. Other Goodies

• Tailscale
  • easy to use personal/team VPN for devices
  • generous free tier for personal use
• Raycast
  • a better spotlight replacement for macOS
  • neat plugins and integrations