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tmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode (Changelog Interviews #73)

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Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode.

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Featuring:

  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Brian Hogan speaker, trainer, and author of _Tmux: Productive, Mouse Free development, out now from PragProg.
  • Josh Clayton is a developer at Thoughtbot.
  • Factory Girl - fixture replacement for Ruby.
  • tmux is a terminal multiplexer similar to GNU screen.
  • tmuxinator helps you manage tmux sessions.
  • taskpaper.vim - Vim interface for Taskpaper.
  • Josh’s dotfiles are extensive.
  • A patch to reattach to user namespace in tmux.
  • Palette lets you write Vim color schemes with Ruby
  • Evergreen - Run Jasmine JavaScript unit tests, integrate them into Ruby applications
  • The latest iTerm2 ships with tmux integration.
  • tslime.vim is a simple vim script to send portion of text from a vim buffer to a running tmux session.
  • vim-turbux - Ruby testing with tmux.
  • Justin Smestad turned Wynn onto tmux for pair programming.
  • Derick Bailey from Watch Me Code.
  • pair.io gives you a one-button, collaboration-friendly dev environment for your GitHub repo.
  • Jesse Dearing is the unnamed “DevOps guy” at Pure Charity.
  • Thoughtbot has a company-wide dotfiles repo.
  • Josh rolls his own Vim setup with Tim Pope’s pathogen.
  • Brian uses TTYtter, is a terminal-based Twitter client, Wynn uses Earthquake.
  • Josh likes irrsi for IRC.
  • Brian likes Alpine over mutt for mail.
  • Search GitHub for “tmux.conf.”
  • Zach Holman says dotfiles are meant to be forked.
  • Zach’s own dotfiles.
  • Yan Pritzker’s dotfiles are opinionated.
  • Josh says that if you don’t think your dotfiles are the best out there, you’re doing it wrong. (29:55)
  • Joe Ferris at Thoughtbot inspired Josh’s dotfiles.
  • Brian and Josh say Janus and oh-my-zsh are great to get started, but you need to understand your dotfiles.
  • Wynn uses this shell function to list colors to put into his tmux config.
  • Dotshare is web site to share dotfile configs plus screenshots.
  • Pianobar is text-based command line interface for Pandora.
  • Wynn uses shell.fm for Last.fm.
  • Be sure and check out the Tmux Crash Course.

    • NEW: Humans Present: tmux a Thoughtbot Workshop.

    Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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