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Justin M. Keyes: Neovim, Workflow, OSs, Terminals...

November 7, 2025·2h 23m
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Let's get to know Justin M. Keyes more on a personal level, let's learn about his computer workflow, preferred OS, keyboard, favorite terminals, Neovim history, upcoming Neovim features, thoughts on security, his favorite movies and way more.Link to the video:https://youtu.be/OWk1Y9MrawQWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:04:24 - Justin in New York but loves Florida00:06:01 - Why do you do all this?00:08:15 - Justin works at Amazon00:09:51 - Hate in reddit at the beginning00:12:07 - Neovim multiplied Vim's energy00:13:30 - Does Neovim move faster than Vim?00:15:03 - Are you Neovim's benevolent dictator?00:16:04 - Did Neoviim gain a lot of popularity because of Prime?00:17:46 - Justin will become a streamer00:19:39 - Thoughts on Security00:23:08 - Install Neovim on remote VMs?00:25:19 - Minimal plugins00:25:53 - Integrating webassembly00:28:02 - Thoughts on distros, lazyvim00:29:51 - Making Neovim beginner friendly00:32:14 - oh my zsh bloat?00:34:02 - What happened to kickstart?00:34:58 - Neovim's plugin manager00:36:17 - Core minimal and modularize?00:38:17 - Is extending neovim bloat?00:41:01 - Neovim embedded terminal was called bloat00:43:41 - Super chat, embedded terminal slow neovim00:45:23 - libghostty integration00:47:35 - Thoughts on moving away from defaults?00:50:21 - How do you get to normal mode00:51:49 - Relationship with the subreddit community00:53:04 - Neovim history, you started it?00:55:43 - Afraid of alligators?00:56:35 - Open source burdain00:57:28 - What happens when you go to emacs?00:59:54 - Theena moving to emacs, thoughts01:02:51 - Thoughts on emacs01:04:09 - Relationship with emacs community01:05:31 - Thoughts on sublime or helix01:07:39 - promiscuous01:08:13 - You used helix?01:10:22 - OS of choice01:11:13 - Distro for servers01:12:47 - Thoughts on daily driving linux?01:15:57 - Distros are an accident01:16:41 - Pushback for using macos?01:17:55 - Neovim needs windows maintainers01:19:07 - Thoughts on 2,000 lines AI generated PRs01:20:34 - Superchat01:20:58 - Justin demo01:21:14 - :restart :connect :detach01:35:23 - demo progress integration with ghostty01:38:55 - ghostty built-in inspector01:41:14 - Neovim window management01:42:08 - You use OS window manager?01:43:10 - Terminal of choice01:44:18 - Scrollback with colors in Neovim with kitty01:47:18 - Neovide01:48:48 - Thoughts on Kovid Goyal, kitty maintainer01:53:54 - Open source misconception01:56:45 - Kitty graphics and keyboard protocol01:58:47 - When does neovim 0.12 come out?02:01:00 - Thoughts on drugs and substance consumption02:06:26 - Sylvan franklin no show no call02:08:21 - Thoughts on a supreme being02:12:36 - Favorite movies02:15:13 - What's the best way tu support neovim monetarily?02:17:27 - Corporate sponsorships on Neovim?02:20:17 - Would you like to work full time in neovim?

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