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

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.

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