I could not believe myself, that I finally created an IRC account.

Lot of people have asked how come I am not on IRC. They told me that we get to interact with smart people on IRC, including creators of great software, libraries, framework. But for some reason, I resisted. It felt complex, compared to modern communities like Telegram, Discord etc.

Today someone suggested it again on the Doom Emacs Telegram channel, and this time I decided to give an honest try.

I’m leaning more and more towards text based workflow.

Earlier I enabled twittering-mode in Doom Emacs, and tweeted from Emacs. How 🆒 is that.

But that is when I realized that twitter has lots of URLs. If I visit a URL from my Twitter feed, it opens up in external browser by default.

I have two problems with that.

1. My flow gets disturbed.
2. The browser already has gazillion links open. Once I go there, I get distracted.

Opening links within emacs addresses both these (I think. Too early to comment)

I spend most of my time in Emacs and Terminal. I make code changes in emacs and switch to terminal to run the tests. It would be nice to do that without switching between the two.

In the past, I had tried shell-mode and inferior shell (python) for this, but it didn’t work, till I found vterm