Tools tagged with #development

I started using Ghostty when it was still in beta after moving from Alacritty and kitty. The fact that it is written in Zig was one of my primary motivators and I’ve enjoyed reading the source and learnt a thing or two about patterns in Zig.

If you need a version control system, there’s nothing better than git today! Having used several like Bitkeeper, mercurial, svn, cvs and the dreaded Perforce, git is probably the most intuitive. In fact, Linus Torvalds wrote git because he was frustrated by BitKeeper.

I did use vim for almost 20 years and in 2023 switched to neovim primarily to migrate my configuration to the lua based system. Vim-mode is central to pretty much anything I do and one of the first things I install for any other IDE if I have to use them is the vim plugin.

I use Ollama with local models from qwen and gemma for local tasks like summarization, basic organization involving data that I don’t want to share with an external LLM. Granted, context is small on these but they do get the job done reasonably well.

I started off using screen for many years and then switched to tmux. I control tmux through mostly a few aliases in my shell to create, attach and detach from sessions. I’m not sure if I’ll continue to use tmux in the coming years thanks to Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty. Perhaps will still be useful for remote sessions. I’m yet to dig more into this. 😀