Recently I have been migrating to programming with my voice using https://talonvoice.com/

This is having a cascading effect on the rest of my technology stack as I rearrange things to optimize for what can be controlled most easily with my voice.

For example, I have always been a vim user, but now I am finding that I prefer VSCode with the vim plugin. file navigation and a few other things that I do frequently are easier. Being able to hover over identifiers for type information saves me from a lot of trips to documentation or the terminal. it’s also easier for me to develop missing functionality that I would like to exist in typescript than vimscript.

I’m probably going to be switching back to fish, so that I can take advantage of its auto complete.

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Most of my work is golang, so I spend most of my time in jetbrains GoLand. It’s pretty great, well worth the license.

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My development environment is what I would call traditional:

• MacOS with a set of must-have applications: Yabai, skhd, Alfred
• Things for GTD, Apple Notes, Tomighty for Pomodoro
• IntelliJ Ultimate: I love its flexibility as I work with many different languages and platforms, including Java, Kotlin, Typescript, Python, etc.
• iTerm2/Tmux/Zsh for my shell needs. I use a bunch of aliases (notably around git), and a few utilities to make my life easier, including: bat (pretty cat), fzf, htop, and tldr
• vim for text edition in shell sessions or on remote servers (ubiquitous)
• VSCode (from Sublime Text) for all my text editing needs
• Docker + Docker-Compose for my local development environment

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I mostly do PHP development for work where I use PHPStorm (makes debugging easier) but besides that my setup goes like this:

• Alacritty as terminal emulator
• Zsh with antigen, using only some of the oh-my-zsh features.
• tmux, I only use 1 session and manage everything there.
• neovim with a few plugins I don’t consider minimal but gets me through my needs as I’m usually moving between languages (Rust and Python mainly, but from time to time I have to do some JS/HTML)
• fzf, exa, ripgrep for search and navigating directories.

So regardless of the DE/WM I use at least 3 workspaces in fullscreen for Browser, Alacritty & PHPStorm on a regular day at work.

Also I’m one of those with vim-style keybindings everywhere (except shell) so Firefox, wm (2bwm) and PHPStorm have their Vim mode. Only use mouse for browser.

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Depends on the machine I’m working on, but common elements are:

• Zsh, tmux
• Vim for Python, YAML, XML, Make, etc…
• IntelliJ for Java
• VS Code for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Firefox with adblocker and privacy extensions
• All the nice Rust utilities that popped in the last few years: bat, fd, hexyl, rg, etc…

I do customize all the tools I use. For now I settled on:

• Fira Code with ligatures
• Ayu Theme
• Horrible hacks to make those damned italics work with tmux and vim

Desktop is on Manjaro, work machine is on MacOS.

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