My Entire Neovim + Tmux Workflow As A DevOps Engineer On MacOS
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2024
- In this video I walk you through my entire workflow centered around Neovim & Terminal.
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My workflow is completely based on the command line.
I therefore have very little programs or tools running
on the graphical side of the OS, whether it be MacOS or Linux.
All I need is the terminal and a web browser, but a window manager
is a big bonus to my productivity.
My main philosophy is to have a minimalistic workflow
which uses very little resources. It should be a distraction-free,
keyboard centered and efficient environment to do my best work.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:38 Philosophy
3:00 GitHub & dotfiles repo
5:53 Operating System (MacOS, Linux)
9:17 Terminal
10:00 Alacritty
15:05 Shell (Bash)
17:30 tmux
27:50 quick overview of .bashrc
29:35 Neovim: Usage & how I got started
31:15 Lazyvim
33:50 LSP
37:06 Markdown
43:19 Telescope
46:50 Lazygit
49:06 Neo-tree
51:28 Window Manager (Amethyst) & Workspaces / Desktops
59:00 Browser (Edge)
1:01:05 Zettelkasten (Neovim)
1:03:50 Obsidian
1:06:26 Outro
A high resolution image and the original Excalidraw file are available for free here:
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I'm using this keyboard:
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I recommend the book Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte:
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Dotfiles repo:
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Article on my Neovim zettelkasten:
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Thanks to everyone commenting, because the algorithm gods fed me with this video (and channel) I didn't know I needed.
you are my devops jesus now
Hahahaha that comment made my day
Fantastic content. Awesome mindset. Love it. Keep up good work.
Please don't hurt him this time around.
And I am DevOps satan. Same goals as Mischa, much more selfish and unorganized 😂
I am also in his cult now. I will have a mac soon and want a very similar setup. Good idea to ditch zsh and use bash, I will do that
Love the rwxrob shout-out! That channel has been a candle in the dark night that is the windows gig I've been on the last couple years.
I've learned so much from that man, I'm forever in debt to him.
So cool the way you have configured your workflow. There are so may things i can do better/faster after watching this video. Thank you!!
Never really payed attention to the difference a window manager can make until I saw your video. Well done!
Great to hear!
Dag Mischa, thank you so much for this! I'm still in the proces of building my ideal work environment, and this has helped me a lot. Most important: In my search for the ideal setup I get lost sometimes in tinkering and getting lured in by all the possibilities and tweaks. You reminded me of the principle that I also hold dearly, of cutting the distracting clutter and just make it as simple and straightforward as possible. Een dikke dikke dankjewel!
This was a very straight up and good demonstration of the terminal based development process.
Unlike other devs who present nvim with their 100+ diff plugins and 1000+ customized shortcuts, this was very good. I think this will be my startup guide for nvim setup from now on.
Thank you, that's a great compliment. I agree, people make it much more complicated than necessary. I'm guilty of this too. But learning Linux well brought me back to basics and reduced the need for plugins, because most things can be achieved with UNIX filters and basic command line scripting.
This is an awesome workflow. Thanks a million for this. I love the philosophy behind it and how it is used. Will be using a lot of it for my days to day work
I love the well thought-out concept for your workflow, it is really inspiring. At work, I spend all day working on a Windows machine that is remotely connected to Linux VM's, and I do my personal projects in Mac OS. Having a consistent cross-platform environment is really attractive to me. I'm going to implement some of your ideas.
Good luck! Glad I could inspire you a bit :)
Awesome video. Been using tiling window managers and vi keys for a long time, but have not yet seriously gotten into setting up any vim yet, so very much in that defaults kind of phase. But this video is showing me the benefits, and I had heard of Lazyvim being the best of those nvim distributions before. So far I have dreaded building out a config from scratch because there is just so much stuff available.
Also that whole part on note taking is very inspiring, it ties so well into the workflow. Obisidian has come up a few times on youtube and I am looking forward to your videos and how you will balance the keyboard driven note taking vs visual notetaking.
You have a very calm yet not boring presenting style, the video was easy to follow and learn from. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your comment, I really appreciate the kind feedback and it motivates me to keep going with the content creation. I'm glad to hear that my style resonates with people out there!
The great thing with Lazyvim is that it is fully configured out of the box and you are ready to go, and then you can either turn off things that you don't like or slowly start adding things that you feel are missing in your workflow. This way you don't have to build anything from scratch.
I'm also happy to hear some interest in my note taking system, I'm already working on the mind maps for the videos so hopefully I'll make some videos on that topic in the coming weeks.
I've been following Tiago Forte's work for a while and was wondering if somebody had implemented his principles in markdown notetaking instead of the GUI apps he often advocates. Finally someone who has popped up in my feed. Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome!
Even though I've just stepped into the world of programming a few months ago, this was incredibly inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear it was helpful. I'm very glad I adopted this type of workflow early in my career, so you can train the muscle memory early on.
Great video, I really enjoyed the pace, style and format.
I have a very similar workflow; nvim (kickstart based config), tmux (with remapped key bindings 😅), zsh (but your point about bash has made me reconsider!), and obsidian (I can’t live without it!).
A browser id recommend looking into (and I’ve recently migrated to myself) is Arc, really nice and aligns to my minimal mindset.
Looking forward to the next one!
Hi Chris thank you for your comment. Cool to read that you have a similar workflow to mine, have you been using it for a long time? I'll definitely check out Arc, thank you for the tip.
Like the ideal of a minimalistic workflow in general. Very cool setup, thanks for sharing!
Glad you like it!
Thanks for making the video. I’ve started using desktops/spaces for specific apps and my setup is a lot neater.
Congrats Man! Great video! Great communication! I'm from Brazil and your English is very easy to understand! Great workflow! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome, thank you! I appreciate your kind feedback on my communication skills
You really must be quick as a wizard! great to see lazygit and it also being integrated into your neovim setup
I'm definitely quick! Lazygit definitely adds to that speed, because I can commit and push with just a few keystrokes
Insane video. Thank you so much for sharing your setup.
No problem 👍 I'm glad you liked it
oh man, you're so calm walking us through. I'd love to learn more of your pro tips about lazygit
More to come!
Love seeing custom configs/setups that devs have spent time to really hone
Ah yes indeed, I've been honing this like a Japanese blacksmith spending weeks to refine the edge of a single blade. I'm still making adjustments to it every week as I learn new things along the way
@@mischavandenburgthat is 🔥. I sometimes get upset with myself for getting lost in learning something that isn’t immediately productive but that’s not really true if it helps every single day after you learn it. This was great vid man.
@@frackinfamous6126 thank you kind sir! Indeed I have sometimes also scratched my head looking back to an entire weekend of trying to get a language server configuration to work, but in those moments I always ask myself, did I enjoy it? If I did then it has been of value to my life some way or other
@@mischavandenburg wow great outlook!
Truly awesome 👏
You are lightyears ahead of me -- truly inspiring! I will continue thinking about easing away from the gui over time
Go for it!
Nice, all you need is to nixify this and you are golden to avoid having to work with brew/apt/etc, really like the video
Thank you so much for your tutorials. I have learned so much from it. So many questions could be answered! ❤
You are so welcome!
Glad this caught my attention. Excellent info to help me craft a new workflow. Many thanks.
Thank you, I really appreciate your kind words! More material like this is hosted on my Skool community.
I recently transitioned to using Neovim and recent got yabai as well. Still learning but watching your video was really nice! Somehow watched the entire thing haha, every nice video. Still need to install tmux and learn that but will take it one thing at a time
Just take it slow and learn the things as you go along. Tmux is a fundamental part of my workflow, I hope you get as much benefit out of it as I am
The production quality is crazy, what an amazing video! Great work
Thank you for the kind feedback. I'm trying to get better 1% with every upload :)
LOL
Excellent video. Just what I needed and presented in a meaningful way.
Glad it was helpful!
Hey! Your video is pure gold! I'm glad I found it. Please continue your great work :)
Than you very much!
Thanks! very inspiring and relatable. I will definitely pick up some things from your video.
Glad to hear I could inspire you! If you have any questions let me know :)
Nice setup!! I have a nearly identical workflow:
nvim, tmux, obsidian, kitty, and I live in the terminal. I use fzf + nvim to quickly open files after fuzzy finding for files or lines of code from the terminal. Really helpful for finding code with logs. I have kitty and alacrity installed. I may switch back to alacrity for a bit because that’s a good point, alacrity doesn’t have tabs or windows and kitty does, and there’s times I accidentally opened a new tab when messing up on typing some of my keybindings in kitty. I recently go a split ergo and am embracing layers and modifiers because I’m experiencing wrist pain. I have a macro layer for some of the common keybindings I use in tmux. Helps with my wrist. Since I switched to terminal workflow, I have minimal distraction and am super productive, it also helped me learn more about Linux and actively recall commands and put concepts to use.
Thank you for comment Armando, so inspiring to read that switching to a terminal workflow has made you more productive! I have also considered split key boards. That's the only gripe I have with my HHKB: althought it is a fantastic tool which increases my productivity, having my hands so close together might cause problems in the future. We'll see. I have never tried Kitty myself, but I like the idea that if I'm fine with Alacritty then I probably don't need any more functionality. In order to offer tabs a terminal emulator would have to use more resources and this way I keep all of that to a minimum. When I reflected on my video last night I also realized that the only thing I have not mentioned is fzf! I use it all the time but somehow I didn't mention it, even though it is used by Telescope under the hood.
Nice & thank you. I use part of this setup, tmux, neovim, obsidian. Still a novice, but slowly learning.
Thank you for your comment. Nice going in adopting all of the tools. I also learned simply by starting to use them and look up information when I get blocked somehow
Great video, thank you for sharing this! A lot of great insights to apply to my own workflow.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Wow awesome content, very interesting, tried T-mux 10 years ago while managing multiple servers but will definitely go back retry to insert it in my work flow.
Great to hear! Good luck with your tmux journey
obsolutely love your video ! First time I see your channel, I'll watch asap all others !
That's so nice ot hear
OMG! Its very powerfull. I just started use neovim for the first time now. I will learn it. Please make more videos. And thank you a lot.
I'm so happy I could inspire you to start using neovim. Good luck!
Awesome.video! Thank you.for.taking the time to create it.
Very inspiring! I will definitely be 'stealing' some of the work you've put into this 😅
Generally when I try to add note taking or zettelkasten to my workflow it works for like a week and it's gone afterwards. Hopefully this time it will stick!
Feel free to take anything you need! :D I have now released a video about my notetaking setup which you might like: ruclips.net/video/zIGJ8NTHF4k/видео.htmlsi=EF-AwSgBph6zVxvx
started my junior devops role today. can’t wait for the day I’ll throw my mouse out the window. Thank you for sharing your awesome setup!
Glad you liked it!
I subscribed and liked your video before it finished loading. I knew this was gonna be so damn good.
That's a huge compliment thank you very much
Really really really interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm already using most of these tools and applications as well for my work/personal flows (except Edge, of course... I can't believe you (or anyone) use that seriously! hahahaa). Other than that, this video discovered me your channel... very interesting as well! Please, don't stop these nice content! Regards!!
You had me at vim based workflow 🤝🤜🤛
i love rwxrob also
Thanks, that was impressive!
Awesome content! Keep going, you've motivated me to change things.
Awesome! Thank you!
Seriously inspiring stuff!
Thank you!
I hope can drop in DevOps career. Thanks for great valuable sharing!
Best of luck!
Amazing video, thanks for sharing 🥳
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Much more like this is on my Skool community.
the reason i am here i started watching guides of guys using neovim.. i am still VScode windows andy, but at work using mainly linux on servers connecting via xshell.. but man.. most of the guys using neovim are like gurus :P
Thank you for sharing your workflow
You’re welcome!
Amazing, video! thanks! regads from Buenos Aires, Saludos! Gracias
You're welcome!
I didn't know I needed tmux, thanks man!
Enjoy!
I'm so surprised with Zettelkasten. Just wow.... And Obsidian.
Just thank you so much!
Lloved this video, im starting to change my workflow as a developer coming from university, where all of this is not really taught.
Isn't that a shame? It is so important for productivity. But I'm glad you're finding ways to learn.
Don't waste your time on configuration, learn to be a very good programmer (fundamentals of cs), learn to touch type at 100-150wpm, then use any IDE they have at your job, don't attach yourself to computers, earn money, find love and start living your actual life instead of constantly fucking with a computer.
@@JamesSmith-ix5jdyikes. Just maybe let people do what they enjoy?
Love your setup - and the amount of thought you put into it. I'm really curious how happy you are with Amethyst - especially compared with the out-of-the-box macOs window management. Last time i tried a different WM on macos, it's been pain - but it's already 5+ years ago and i have no idea, which one it even was.
this is cool. i love window managers and vim^^
Hi Mischa, great setup. Inspiring! One question, how did you get the obsidian vault syncing to work, using iCloud? More specifically, how do you search your (iCloud synced) obsidian vault using Telescope, when working in other project directories?
Great video thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
dude i love your beard :) im the server guy on my team setup our entire ci/cd, build automation yada yada, help team with git and stuff and love using nvim to write scripts. subscribed
Welcome on board! Sounds like you're on the right track
awesome content, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Awesome video
Thanks a lot for sharing it
Glad you liked it!
Very cool. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Do you take any notes on your phone or while on the go? How do you get them into your system?
You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it. This is one of the main reasons I kept using Obsidian even though I do most of the writing in neovim. Obsidian has a pretty decent mobile app which syncs my notes across devices using iCloud. So I always have my entire note collection accessible from my iPhone or iPad and I can take notes on the go as well. I'll go into further detail in an upcoming video about my notetaking setup and Zettelkasten :)
this looks quite cool , i see k9s there, i almost forgot to use it from sometime,
adding this to my task list for viewing :p
man living in Europe, working as a cloud/kube devops engineer, working with yaml/iaac. You are living my dream life!
I was working in a nursing home 5 years ago. What's stopping you from realizing your dream?
@@mischavandenburg only me my friend, I will reach it some day. The journey is what lead me to your video!
@@verdibahnsen That's awesome. I have set up a community that can help you on this journey. I think it could be of value to you if you want to wish to achieve what I have achieved.
mischavandenburg.com/skool
great work
Really enjoyed your video! One request and I would appreciate so much if you would do it that is, could you make a video on docker and how you use it as a devops engineer?
very good video. Thanks.
You are welcome!
You mentioned at 2:20 that esc can be reached with your pinky. There is another solution to this, people remap the capslock key or the sequence jj as esc key inside vim to avoid using the esc key altogether.
But reaching the esc via pinky is pretty useful outside of vim now that I think about it.
or ctrl+c. i have have a remap of C-C for . lol
This is definitely an option, and I used it for quite some time until I got my HHKB. There were some rare cases where I would run into problems with words thad had the "jk" sequence in them, as I mapped it to "jk".
The main advantage with having my escape key always available is that I don't need to configure any keybindings when I'm editing on a remote system. The "jk" keybinding would still be a part of the .vimrc which isn't available if you're not copying it into your VM or container. With my HHKB I can always exit editing mode comfortably, wherever I'm using vim
Great work Mischa! Takk!
Hjertelig velkommen!
Hi @mischavandenburg, thanks for all the lovely content.
I'm wondering what kind of "addon" / library you use in Excalidraw for the lines that connects things?
You can enable more pens in the settings and one of them is the organic line pen. Glad you like the content !
I use amethyst too, love it. But I personally couldn't stand having the animation for switching desktops so I use Raycast with keyboard shortcuts for switching between certain apps instantly. For example if I want a full screen browser and a full screen terminal, I have both apps on the same desktop with the fullscreen amethyst layout and switch between them with no animation or lag with cmd+shift+j / k
Great content!
Thank you!
Nice. Thanks for the video. I would recommend Vimium plugin for vim experience inside browser. I think there are extensions for Edge browser also.
Thanks for the tip!
Very inspiring! As a software engineer, I know that I'm missing out by not taking notes. I've tried a couple of times, but there's too much friction, perhaps due to my system (Obsidian and Todoist) or my workflow. I hope you will create a post/video about note-taking.
I released it last week!
Thank you for sharing. I have a question, how do you combine the windows with the shortcut around 39:30 in the video?
Really inspiring video! Can you tell me what video recording software you have used? It's cool that keyboard shortcuts displayed when typing
I'm using OBS and Keycastr
Thanks for the video, this gave me the final push to start learning Tmux and Neovim. I already am somewhat familiar with vim keybindings, but I never committed to ditching the mouse and my IDE completely.
Since you were mentioning that you still have a Linux machine, how do you manage the different keyboard layouts for Linux and macOS? Especially when you have to work with the laptop keyboards, do you just have both layouts in your muscle memory or do you have some unified setup?
I use a HHKB keyboard which is compatible with all systems so that is super useful. Sometimes I use a laptop and then I have indeed just memorized the layout, but I am much less efficient than when I'm using my HHKB.
You might like the Skool community I just set up:
www.skool.com/kubernetes-devops-cloud-3122/about
You are better than a professor homie - LOVE it
Thank you very much
Excellent..thank you
Thank you! I have much more like this on my Skool community.
Very throughout video, thanks.
This was such an amazing and inspirational video! I'm looking forward to become a DevOps engineer by the way. I have somewhat developed a workflow like yours bu the switch from arch to macOS hit quite hard.
If you happen to read this commend would you mind if i send you a message to ask you some not-so-technical questions?
Best regards and genuinely enjoying your content!
Find me on linkedin and let's connect :)
This video is a gem. I'm a big fan of yours from now.
Thank you, that's very kind of you :)
Love this setup, Mischa! What do you use for showing keystrokes on screen?
Thank you sir! I'm using Keycastr , it works really well
You inspired me to decide to transform my workflow from a lot of different apps like VsCode, Notion,... to NVim + Tmux. I know this might take a while but will stick to it until the end. Also I want to ask how you configure the highlighting for bash as I used zsh and power10k before but don't know what is the good option on bash.
Check out my dotfiles they should give you a good indication!
I have an old mac book, wiped the macOS, installed arch with wayland Hyprland and Vim with couple of useful plugins and firefox, perfect setup
Noice.
Yay the algorithm is helping me out, great content! Can I ask you what's the pomodoro / tomato thing in the upper right corner? It seems like a cool pomodoro timer that can be very useful :P
github.com/rwxrob/pomo
and check out my tmux config to see how I set it up in the tmux bar
All credits to rwxrob
this is too good :)
Very good content, just commenting because I saw this was a smaller channel.
Hey, thanks!🙏
The video on productive environment is quite amazing. Being a beginner inspired by the cool tools and customisation I made a terrible mistake of cloning the repo and running the setup script on my machine and now I have no clue what's working and what's not , half of the things aren't installed and if installed then not working right. Maybe is there a way to undo the entire action?
great video. 'just use bash' ... so wise. qq. Where do you set the neovim vertical lines and highlighting?
It's part of the LazyVim default config
Thank you for a great video! How do you work when you have tmux on your mac, but you need to connect (using ssh) to another server and use tmux there also (tmux inside tmux pane)? ;)
You can definitely do that, and to send commands to the nested tmux you just have to press control + b twice!
Well done
Thank you!
24:59 that brings me closer to solving my biggest problem with hjkl movement which is that when I'm in the terminal I have to use up arrows to go through previous commands 😅
This can be solved in bash:
set -o vi
esc
kkkk
-o vi sets the bash shell to vi mode and by pressing esc you can enter command mode, which scrolls back using k!
you can also use motions like 0, $ , d3w or d$
Another question, since you like your shell very pure, what do you think of plugins like zoxide? I find that being an incredible tool for navigation and it integrates very well with fzf
Hello there, I think you would be a great match for our Skool community where these types of questions get asked - and answered - 24/7. Hope to see you there!
😀Thanks for putting this together. I've started adopting some of these techniques. I'm moving from iTerm2 to Alacritty and running tmux more regularly. Is there a config that automatically copies mouse selected text to the clipboard? I use that pretty frequently in iTerm to get output to other apps like slack. Thanks!
If you enable mouse mode in tmux (i have it in my config) then selecting text with the mouse already automatically copies it to the clipboard :)
Great video, thank you!
One question, why not kitty instead of alacritty?
Hi Mischa! Really like your channel and I got inspired to set up my own workspace based on your configuration. I am nearly there but I have one issue. The Pandoc formatting does not convert the # to §. It seems to be overwritten by something milliseconds after nvim startup. Does this sound familiar?
Hmm have you enabled markdown in treesitter? It needs to be disabled
@@mischavandenburg I ended up uninstalling the Treesitter parser modules for markdown. Now it works!
@@Pacmac85 not or now? 😃
@@mischavandenburg Ha ha. Now! ☺️
@@Pacmac85 I’m happy it works now!
A suggestion would be to use yabai instead of amethyst so you could disable the animations when switching desktop which I think are productivity killers + free carpal tunnel
@mischavandenburg i am curious, what would you do, if you would have to work with virtual machines or physical servers where your enviroment for neovim is not set..
would you consider quiting the job instead of switching to that enviroment you are not used to anymore? Or do you have some workaround?
It depends on the kind of work. When I worked as a Linux Sys Admin, I would have my own environment but also have to ssh into machines where only vanilla vim is available. And that was completely fine. Editing config files and doing admin tasks are a breeze when you have mastered vanilla vim and tmux.
My local neovim environment is used for writing code and notes and development. I don't need a full development environment on each machine I manage.
I really liked you video. I’m a hobbyist that runs an Alpine distro box inside Silverblue with: Neovim; Lazyvim; Tmux; and Bash. I’ve been learning Python3 with a poetry shell setup, but I’d like to expand things. I’d like to play around with Go and Lua too. Could you suggest a directory and virtualenv setup for this? Do I want one virtualenv with a directory for each: Python; Go; and Lua?, or multiple virtualenvs one for each language?
Maybe check out devcontainers or Nix