2 - Chris Power
Chris Power, also known as @typecraft_dev on Twitter, resides in Connecticut with his beautiful wife and twin 4-year-old kids. Currently, he works for a company called Underdog Fantasy as an API developer.
Chris runs a YouTube channel called Typecraft, where he shares programming tutorials on React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Git, Vim, and various other topics.
Previously, he was involved in developing multiple iterations of property management software (commonly known as landlord software). However, he eventually decided to discontinue pursuing that particular niche for side projects, as numerous prominent players in the market already offer comparable services free of charge.
Neovim
He's been using Vim on and off since the very beginning of his career. He learned Vim originally from his boss during his first-ever tech job as a release engineer, approximately 12 years ago.
His favorite Neovim plugin is Telescope, which is a highly extendable fuzzy finder over lists.
He tends to be really minimal with his Neovim usage and he thinks he’s pretty vanilla at everything. His favorite trick is Macros in general. Also yanking to the system clipboard using ”+*+y
after visually selecting a block of code is pretty slick.
He’s currently using Dracula color scheme and Hack Mono font.
Terminal Setup
Favorite Tools
Iterm2: Terminal Emulator for MacOS.
Tmux: Terminal multiplexer. It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal.
Neovim: The greatest editor ever created.
Neovide: This is a simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform graphical user interface for Neovim (an aggressively refactored and updated Vim editor). Where possible there are some graphical improvements, but functionally it should act like the terminal UI.
He likes to keep things minimal in many aspects of his life, including his editing tools. He feels that with the less *stuff* he uses, he moves much faster in programming, and in life.
Dotfiles
You can find his dotfiles repository on GitHub here. He recently hit 100 stars! 🚀