About me I guess...

My try at this. It's always interesting to learn what kind of people make these smolwab places, so I thought I might contribute a bit as well.

Soooo... I'm a student of computer sciences in Europe. I use *nix. I like minimalism. I like my terminal and get scared of complex graphical UI.

Yea, very unexpected, I know. I didn't say that my contribution will be anything great.

I came here on ^C to socialize a bit and I am failing at it miserably. You can catch me on IRC from time to time, so feel free to reach out if you feel like it.

I have some very specific and sometimes unusual opinions on mostly technical things that I might write about here sometimes once I feel about it.

What I use

OS : Linux Mint

After deep research, I have found out that I don't really care, as long as all the things I haven't touch just work. And Mint just works.

terminal : kitty

It has it's own image protocol and supports ligatures.

terminal font : FiraCode Nerd Font

terminal multiplexer : tmux

shell : fish

editor : neovim

With some plugins of course:

  • Treesitter for extra highlight (I like colors in my terminal).
  • Rainbow-delimiters for even more colors.
  • Telescope for file/buffer management.
  • Auto-pairs and commentary for convenience.
  • Cmp for compleations.
  • Lualine for looks.
  • Parinfer and vlime for lisp.
  • CopilotChat for AI.
  • Vimwiki for notes.

    • Here on ^C I have a more minimal version of this config without plugins that can be found here.

    window manager : evilwm

    It's very minimal I don't really want much features from a WM and evilwm provides on that part. I have user CWM previously, but wasn't very happy about me switching keyboard layouts. I use xbindkeys for key bindings and feh to set wallpaper. I don't like docks, but I do have some info in tmux bar.

    I don't to tiling, since the only application which would make sense to tile with my screen resolution is the terminal, and I have tmux for that. I like how you don't get distracted by theming, since there is nothing to theme.

    Highly recommend if you know at least some *nix and like minimalism, highly discourage if you don't.

    web browser : brave

    gemini browser : amfora

    IRC client : hexchat? (weechat is broken for some reason...)

    I don't really use that much software to be honest.

    some languages I like

    FORTH

    Very nice low-level language. I still don't know all the secrets, but I'm getting the hang of it. If you are looking for a FORTH implementation with C bindings that actually works (unlike Gforth), I have made ex:forth

    Zig

    Minimal. Pretty syntax. Nice namespaced imports. Perfect C compatibility. Very nice exception handeling. Highly recommend.

    D

    Great for string/array manipulations. Does not force OOP. Nice alternative method-like function syntax.

    Pascal

    You might be surprised, you might disagree even, but I think that Pascal is actually very nice language. It has some similarities with C, as they both originate from the ALGOL family, but it has it's own way of doing things. It is vay more high-level that C, but it still lacks many more modern features, like FP for example. Due to this, it feels more minimal and streamlined compared to many modern languages, without sacrificing convenience, which I like.

    ruby

    Great for scripting. Love the builtin regex. Love .each syntax. Love chaining methods.

    Scheme

    I think that the LISP language family is very good choice for a high-level, but still compiled language. Scheme is way less intimidating and way easier to set up than Common Lisp. Contrary to popular believe, Scheme allows you do write procedural programs just fine. Its macros are a lot of fun. Named LETs are a nice way to handle recursion without poluting the namespace.

    C

    I take Zig over C every day, but hey, how can you not like C?