As I wrote earlier, I skipped over neovim initially, but then got curious.

I installed Neovim and configured it to use Lazyvim.

I was blown away by how nice it is.

My last serious affair with neovim was two years ago. ¹

Lot has changed since then.

Lazyvim wasn’t even born when I stopped using neovim ²

It is quite polished.³ The hotekys are mnemonic and intuitive (coming from doom emacs, at least)

I have not used it a lot.

While Omakub was mainly intended for developers (and thus has focus on terminal based programs like alacritty, zellij and neovim), it does come with few GUI programs.

I think this is mainly because DHH was trying to switch to Linux as his primary machine, and requires some non-terminal tools.

Choice of Pinta and Xournal app were interesting, so I installed both of them.

I assumed Pinta to be MS Paint replacement.

Yesterday, I came across this new script released by Basecamp.

The one-line pitch is:

Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.

This was started by DHH, but now has a lot of contributors.

Since I’m not on Ubuntu, I can’t directly use it. But I’m tempted to set up Ubuntu on a spare (?) machine just to try this out.

After going through omakub ¹ and its source, I wanted to recreate it on macOS as much as possible.

The first thing was to use Alacritty.

I had tried it in the past, but moved to Wezterm.

The reason I stopped was because there was no support for panes or tabs (which is by design) But now that I’m anyway using Zellij for that, I decided to give Alacritty another chance.

But default rendering looks fat (or bold) which I didn’t like.