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Good stuff! Mind sharing your dotfiles?

There are so many amazing things in the vid, pure gold. I'm sitting here in the middle of the night - refusing to sleep until the end of the video. Great stuff mate!

I changed Neovim to Zed to programming C++

Try zoxide to save finding directories. Just z dir and you're there from anywhere provided that you've been there before.

Is it worth grabbing the Powerpack for Alfred?

Brilliant video, mate. Thank you! I love Neovim too, but like you're saying, it's too easy to get stuck endlessly in configuring Neovim with lua and the plugins. I used to spend hours configuring it, forking plugins, changing them and getting the config as clean as possible.

Alfred is the only application that makes me miss the mac 😂 but nice video I have a similar setup but I also use tmux for jumping between projects

It would be great if you could do a comparison video between Defy and Raise (or Raise 2). It seems like no one has done a review like this that I can find. Your review style is quite good since you go into a lot of detail.

Hey Ben, your Uses page seems to be broken. I only get a blank page (tried various browsers). The rest of your site is fine though.

Raycast can replace a few of these!

Wonderful video, I liked: Macro indicator in lualine Disabling relative line numbers, have never used them but still keep that enabled Will try Pounce Have you tried mini.files? It's the perfect combination between oil and neo-tree, I love the preview it provides and the oil way of manipulating files like in a buffer

Thank you this so useful. I’m a developer too and I’ve been trying to figure out what to replace studio display with bc it’s just not enough space when coding The dell 40 was a strong option but I was worried about the PPI. I think you’ve convinced me that it will be fine Cheers!

Great video, I've been wanting to try fzf-lua for some time. Thanks for the spelling suggestions with telescope tip, hadn't thought about that

What font are you using?

You've heard it first vscode is slow

Is there any Homerow alternative for linux?

Thanks so much Ben, another great video. I have been using Rectangle and Alfred for a while now and use a Hyperkey to size and position my windows using rectangle, I never thought of using the Ad Hyperkey workflow and will give it. a bash. I am curious, is this workflow built by you, or is the flow available in the Alfred Gallery. Thanks again.

Just a heads up. Keychron does have a silicone wrist rest, under their palm rest selection, for the Q14 Pro/Max. It's down at the bottom of the selections.

Kitty is dope, I LOVE the scroll back neovim plugin. It's the reason I switched from alacirtty. to kitty..

mate somehow you look so familiar... maybe you made a movie or tv series?

I want to be able use a Vim editor for my every-day work rather than using a pretty good in-IDE Vim reimplementation. However, I want access to a in-tool debugger, near-time lint checking, and single-shortcut refactoring that have felt like too big of a lift when I’ve tried to look into these. If I were 20 years younger, I’d probably feel like I had the time to spend to get all of this set up for me and the way I think. I’ve even tried LazyGit and it just didn’t work for me in the brief time I spent with it. It presents too much information that I don’t want and I don’t know how to get it to only present what I want in the moment. I still find the CLI to be the only UI that works really well for me and the way I think around Git.

Ben: Here are my tips to be productive Me: ... well there goes a ton of time for me trying them out.... Love the video, you don't post many as you said but I have found pretty much all of them worth the watch.

Vscode is enough

I get it that you maybe only have a few terminal sessions with a few splits, but one thing I like about tmux is you can use resurrect to restore the state of everything, even if I'm hit with one of those forced corporate update/reboots.

Is homerow the same as shortcat?

Why not use Raycast instead of Alfred and Rectangle?

I wish I could like your videos more than once. This, as with all of your videos is so well thought out and presented. We have a similar workflow, although I am on Linux. Props man, this was a fantastic watch!

Use Aerospace instead of rectangle !!

Love the format of your kitty tab title. I was able to almost replicate it but was wondering how you achieved the small tab index numbers? Are you using your own custom tab_bar_style?

After you video switched to fzf from telescope and never look back. Wonder if you could share your glove80 layout config, looking for some mapping inspiration?

Perfect timing with this video as I was spending last night setting up Neovim for myself haha. I still use a heavy IDE for my day-to-day work as all our tooling is built around that but I appreciate the info about Alfred. I definitely need to get around to setting up better keyboard shortcuts for Rectangle too as I find myself often going to the menu bar and clicking on the layout I want.

Is there any Homerow alternative for Linux?

As usual, really nice explanation of your setup, and as usual I will end up borrowing several things from it as well. Thanks a lot!

Could you share your kitty.conf configuration file ?

Really liked the video! I like the window management setup - I use aerospace on osx myself, but yours seems maybe even better. Recent versions of lazygit (might require nightly), you can also set the branch list to be sorted by newest first - I love this feature myself.

Love watching Neovim setup videos & this one was really great. Always learn something new & gives me a reason to contine the endless tweaking of my own setup. Love your videos as I love crazy keyboards and Neovim!

4:10 ... Man I wish I could get rid of vscode and visual studio cus they're both so freaking heavy and laggy but somehow, working on windows, neovim is even worse once I get all the omnisharp LSP and stuff setup with something like lazyvim extras. The CPU use just spikes like crazy and it locks up. Very frustrating

I always enjoy listening to you and your humor. Wish you made more videos :D

thank you for the review. how can this monitor connect to external speakers and make them available to all computers connected to the monitor? I'm using a U3223QE which has an aux output. but seems this 6K doesn't have this port. thank you!

Curious if you've tried Zed yet.

If your right hand is dominant, it is faster on the Num pad. My is, so I did not want to change that. I use a Track Ball mouse with my left hand instead. It makes sense.

Thanks, Ben! Nerdy or not, it definitely helped me see the small ones are not for me! :)

hi are the switches that noisy?

It also has better real contrast than apple which is only 1000 to 1 and suffers from blooming and ghosting and latency.

If this is your first keyboard with a key well, be aware of one thing. The keys are much closer to your fingers. As a result, there is less inertia in your fingers when they pressing the key. It will feel as if you have no strength, and you have to "push" to press the key. It's especially strange on your pinkies To remediate this, get a very light switch. I got the browns and had a tough time getting used to it.

I have just gone through all the steps of making a keymap and now I have the files, how do I get them onto the keyboard? I have just received my corne wireless keyboard today and have no idea how to interact with it. The way I understand it is, that a config file and a firmware file are two different things. As far as I know, zmk is already on the keyboard. Much appreciated if you can help, I am pulling my hair out with this one and I am usually good with technology.

Ben, which keyboard has been your daily driver?

Yes, numpad on the left for right handed people. Yes, double B, I would make the right side one the Y, but pity you can't swap key caps.

I am using the keyboardio Model100 as a daily driver now for quite some time. And I love the Palm-Keys. I can rest my writst next to the palm-keys and whenever I need to switch to my navigation layer (cursor keys) I just need to stretch my thumb a bit out. This is very comfortable for me - so the palm keys were kind of a major upgrade for me. But I agree, getting the keyboard to do, what you want it to do is not easy if you are not skilled in programming. Fiddling with code is my daily work, so I was more than confortable with it. Actually, for me this is a must have for a keyboard, that I am able to put my personal firmware on it, using my personal set of plugins, led effects etc. for example: I configured my model 100 to use different LED-Effekts when different layers are active. So when switching to game mode, I have the "wavepool effect" active, when in my normal mode, I use "Stalker". When switching to Special layer (for braces and such) I get "Solid Red" - makes the keyboard look very "active". This kind of behaviour is not possible with Chrysalis (or any other of those configuration software as i see it). That's nerdy for sure... but I like it. I also did similar things with my other split ergonomic keyboards (ergodox-ez, Model01) but thanks to Kaleidoscope it is actually very easy to do that, compared to the others. Flashing the Model100 (or Model01 in that respect) is a breeze compared to the Ergodox for example. In a nutshell: it's very individually different. Unfortunately it is a very pricy product to just try out... but it is actually that.

Just ordered mine, white with Browns. Thanks very much for your review.