A small document describing the tech I use regularly and (sometimes) why
I use wezterm. Having tried many terminals, including iTerm2, kitty, Ghostty, etc. I find wezterm, for me, to provide the best combination of fast and feature-complete terminal emulators.
I use neovim (btw), specifically, I have a configuration based on astrovim.
Almost all of what I do is hosted on GitHub, however I have recently adopted jj as my version control tool of choice (using the git backend). I find jj to be both a simpler and more powerful interface for version control. Likewise, it integrates well with git and GitHub, so that I can continue to collaborate easily with those using git while I am treated to the upgraded VC experience provided by jj.
Obviously, I make use of the regular *nix command line tools. Here, I provide details on those that I've chosen to replace with some alternative:
- ripgrep : like grep but better & faster.
- bat : like cat, but nicer
- tmux : if you work on a remote server, you probably already know what
tmuxis, but if you don't I highly recommend using it.
I prefer to write my applications in rust whenever possible. No programming language is perfect, of course. However, I have so far found rust to be tremendously closer to the ideal than any other language I have previously used (which is quite a few). When using rust I adopt the rust ecosystem, and so use cargo as my build tool of choice. Below, I provide some more details of what I use when developing software both with and without rust.
For rust I use cargo.
For c++ I use meson when I can and cmake when I must.
For python I use uv, for both environment managing and distribution.