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In YouTube I talk to guests about tech topics: Neovim, macOS, Linux, Terminal emulators, popular GitHub repos, other editors like Emacs, Helix, etc. We also learn how each guest uses their setup, CLI tools they use and how. Videos in my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@linkarzu

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Afleveringen

Learning Vanilla Emacs from Scratch with Prot as a Neovim User

6 juli 2026 · 1 uur 54 min
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Joshua Blais is back on the podcast, and this episode goes all over the place: Guix, Nix breaking, distro hopping, Emacs, Neovim, 34-key keyboards, home row mods, back pain, ADHD, Adderall, phone addiction, online presence, AI, spirituality, gratitude, community, and making money on YouTube. Lees meer

We start with Linux and editor talk, including why Nix broke, what Guix is, why Joshua uses Emacs, whether he might go back to Neovim, and the difference between Doom Emacs and vanilla Emacs. Then we get into the ergonomic side of tech: back problems, chairs, keyboard placement, Colemak, concavity, 34 keys, where Shift goes on a tiny keyboard, ZMK, QMK, switches, and how keyboard choices affect your body.

The second half gets more personal. We talk about substance abuse, Adderall, the ADHD trend, putting your phone away, whether kids should have phones or tablets, trying to build an online presence while also wanting to go offline, monetizing YouTube, having a community, IRC, networking, AI, spirituality, gratitude, and whether the Luke Smith path is the right path.

Video:

https://youtu.be/btAOBkcLEkg

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 Highlights

00:02:25 What do you do for a living and what are the coaching sessions about?

00:07:06 How does it feel to work for yourself and not depend on a company?

00:09:46 Why cool hairstyles and looks every week?

00:11:17 Do you make significant money out of YouTube?

00:15:51 What is emacs-plus on macos?

00:16:50 What is the --with-native-comp install flag and is it needed?

00:17:58 How to install emacs as a macos user and why emacs 30?

00:19:52 Emacs --fg-daemon, what is it and why?

00:21:24 I deleted the .emacs.d directory and also created a symlink

00:25:25 Doom emacs, evil mode or vanilla emacs?

00:29:21 Why is Linkarzu trying emacs?

00:32:02 menu-bar scroll-bar visible-bell lexical-binding

00:34:52 How to dis…
Joshua Blais: Back Pain in Tech, Guix, Emacs, 34-Keys, Going Offline

19 juni 2026 · 2 uur 8 min
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Joshua Blais is back on the podcast, and this episode goes all over the place: Guix, Nix breaking, distro hopping, Emacs, Neovim, 34-key keyboards, home row mods, back pain, ADHD, Adderall, phone addiction, online presence, AI, spirituality, gratitude, community, and making money on YouTube. Lees meer

We start with Linux and editor talk, including why Nix broke, what Guix is, why Joshua uses Emacs, whether he might go back to Neovim, and the difference between Doom Emacs and vanilla Emacs. Then we get into the ergonomic side of tech: back problems, chairs, keyboard placement, Colemak, concavity, 34 keys, where Shift goes on a tiny keyboard, ZMK, QMK, switches, and how keyboard choices affect your body.

The second half gets more personal. We talk about substance abuse, Adderall, the ADHD trend, putting your phone away, whether kids should have phones or tablets, trying to build an online presence while also wanting to go offline, monetizing YouTube, having a community, IRC, networking, AI, spirituality, gratitude, and whether the Luke Smith path is the right path.

Video:

https://youtu.be/9ziLQK_kmKY

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:00 Highlights

00:03:17 Nix: the unbreakable OS broke

00:05:15 What is GUIX?

00:06:06 Topics and who is who in the thumbnail

00:07:23 The podcast has its own youtube channel now

00:08:24 Distro hopping and GUIX

00:18:10 Plans on going from Emacs to Neovim (again)?

00:21:15 Doom emacs vs vanilla emacs

00:26:03 Back problems in the tech community

00:35:50 Yoga balls? Herman Miller chairs are garbage

00:37:50 How do you sleep, you like to be hugged or be the hugger?

00:40:40 Back problems aggravated by your keyboard, colemak?

00:47:24 Where can people find your book?

00:49:50 34 keys, homerow mods, where you put shift?

00:52:34 Hot take about keyboard concavity, keyboard placement

01:00:50 zmk, qmk, gui too…
FFF Claims to Be the Best Neovim File Picker. Is It?

17 juni 2026 · 1 uur 33 min
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Interview with Dmitriy Kovalenko, creator of FFF, a fast file search picker for Neovim that describes itself as “the best file search picker for neovim. Period.” Lees meer

We’ll talk about why he built FFF, how it compares to tools like Telescope, fzf-lua, and snacks.nvim, and why file picking in Neovim is still such a hot topic. We’ll also get into performance, memory usage, plugin bloat, Rust, Neovim workflows, and the fun drama that happens when someone says their tool is the best.

Dmitriy is also known for having strong opinions online. We’ll talk about open source, controversial takes, what makes a Neovim plugin actually good, and whether modern Neovim setups are becoming too bloated.

Video:

https://youtu.be/HRx3B5wYcrI

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:01:14 - Why are you so hated in the Neovim Subreddit?

00:06:22 - Snacks smart picker demo and why fff was born

00:09:44 - FFF weird view when small resolution. Previewing images

00:12:19 - What is FFF? Demo comparing it to snacks in chromium codebase

00:17:47 - Can you change the sorting options in FFF?

00:20:29 - Thoughts on telescope?

00:21:07 - how to search in hidden files?

00:26:49 - fff jacket giveaway

00:27:53 - Why Neovim and not other editor?

00:31:51 - Why Kitty and not Ghostty?

00:35:11 - Kitty sessions? Thoughts on Tmux?

00:38:57 - Kitty Sessions demo

00:40:48 - FFF sloppy

00:42:23 - FFF vs Snacks on the linux kernel codebase demo

00:44:34 - Typos for being so fast?

00:50:20 - Thoughts on mini.pick and Echasnovski's plugins

00:52:50 - Rust is your main language?

00:58:07 - Why are you daily driving macOS?

00:59:39 - Any apps that leverage FFF in a GUI?

01:04:08 - FFF sorting capabilities?

01:05:24 - Plans for future projects?

01:12:48 - Dmitriy Kovalenko youtube channel

01:14:33 - What do you do for a living?

01:15:25 - Feel depressed about AI?

01:19:3…
Kovid Goyal on Kitty: Drag and Drop, Pixel Scrolling, and What’s Next

15 juni 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
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Mitchell Hashimoto wasn’t able to join this episode for personal reasons, so we made a small pivot. Lees meer

A lot of people already knew about the original Ghostty vs Kitty livestream, so I wanted to explain that clearly here too. Mitchell couldn’t make it this time, and I completely understand. We’ll see what happens in the future.

That said, this still turned into a really fun conversation with Kovid Goyal, creator of kitty and calibre.

In this episode, we talk about kitty, recent popular features, terminal UX, design choices, performance, workflows, and some of what may be coming next. Kovid also talks about things like pixel scrolling with momentum, drag and drop for kitty UI elements like windows and tabs, and an early look at a possible future drag and drop protocol for terminal programs, which could make things like transferring files between two different computers much easier.

So even though this is no longer a Ghostty vs Kitty conversation, I still think this episode will be really interesting if you care about terminal emulators, keyboard-driven workflows, macOS, Linux, Neovim, native apps, developer tools, and open source software.

Video:

https://youtu.be/UDNVICQMXB0

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:02:10 - Who is Kovid and what protocols he has contributed to the terminal ecosystem

00:11:00 - What's the difference between the kitty graphics protocol and sixel?

00:13:50 - What is Chafa?

00:15:11 - In terms of Neovim, can you explain what the Keyboard Protocol is?

00:18:43 - Undercurl, another protocol provided by Kovid to terminals

00:19:30 - Text sizing protocol, what is it?

00:25:22 - Neovim: What is needed to have variable font size?

00:27:55 - PR for kitty graphics protocol in Neovim terminal?

00:29:58 - choose-files kitten

00:31:51 - Will you add the chenglou pretext thing?

00:34:19 - Kitty Clipboard Protocol
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Neovim 0.12 Release with the Core Team

11 juni 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
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In this episode, I’m joined by members of the Neovim core team to talk about the Neovim 0.12 release, the biggest new features, project direction, AI, workflows, plugins, and why people still use Neovim in a world full of AI editors and modern IDEs. Lees meer

This is not just a Neovim 0.12 feature overview. It’s also a conversation to help people get to know the humans behind the project. We talk about what changed in Neovim 0.12, how the release came together, what maintainers care about, how they personally use Neovim, and where they see Neovim going next.

We talk about Neovim 0.12 features, multicursor, the new intro screen, the new build system, UI improvements, Ghostty progress bar support, checkhealth, bug reports, :restart, tmux-related workflows, terminal rendering, Doom in Neovim, LazyVim and Neovim 0.12, AI in Neovim, and more.

If you use Neovim, Vim, LazyVim, Ghostty, tmux, or you’re just curious why people still care so much about terminal-based editors, this episode should be for you.

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Guests in this episode:

Justin Keyes, Neovim lead maintainer

GitHub: https://github.com/justinmk

Maria Solano, Neovim core maintainer

GitHub: https://github.com/MariaSolOs

Gregory Anders, Neovim core maintainer

GitHub: https://github.com/gpanders

bfredl, Neovim core maintainer

GitHub: https://github.com/bfredl

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Video:

https://youtu.be/EiBg91LTOYk

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:00:59 - What is Neovim?

00:06:45 - Why people still use Neovim with so many other options?

00:14:31 - How much AI are you integrating into Neovim?

00:17:21 - How is the money (donations) side of things going for Neovim?

00:19:44 - Who is Bfredl (Full time Neovim Employee, living the dream)

00:22:17 - Who is Maria Solano - MariaSolOs

00:23:37 - Who is Gregory Anders - gpanders

00:25:32 - What about Mitc…
Echasnovski (pt 2): Linux, Terminals, and Tools (Ghostty vs Kitty, NixOS, Arch)

11 juni 2026 · 1 uur 18 min
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Part 2 of my 3+ hour chat with Echasnovski (mini.nvim / MiniMax) goes full Linux and tooling mode. We continue our Neovim discussion, then we get to know the nvim-mini team, talk about EndeavourOS + Arch (and the Ubuntu-to-Arch jump), how he approaches updates, thoughts on NixOS, and the macOS “it’s expensive” misconception. Then we get into terminals: why Ghostty over Kovid Goyal’s Kitty, whether the performance difference is real, and his thoughts on Kovid. If you’re into distros, terminals, and practical dev workflows, this one is for you. Lees meer

Video:

https://youtu.be/UqlkKK7imjo

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:01:58 - MiniMax LSP config

00:06:19 - The team behind the nvim-mini project

00:08:40 - Are you a dictator like Justin and Kovid?

00:10:51 - Why do you do all this. Accept donations?

00:13:01 - Is each plugin a separate repo? How does that work?

00:14:46 - Why each plugin was moved to a separate repo?

00:17:43 - Background, studies, job

00:22:24 - Echasnovski needs support

00:24:27 - Are you part of the Neovim Core team?

00:25:03 - Contributions to Neovim

00:27:03 - Why this love for Neovim?

00:28:06 - Thoughts on Tmux and neovim tabs

00:29:31 - Relative line numbers?

00:33:23 - Thoughts on purists saying you have to stick to defaults

00:35:04 - Thoughts on extending Neovim

00:36:32 - Gregory Anders beef with the .setup call

00:46:45 - Thoughts on AI generated PRs

00:48:30 - Thoughts on AI, or should we say LLMs?

00:52:20 - Why Ghostty and not king Goyal's terminal?

00:55:58 - Felt performance difference between Ghostty and Kitty?

00:57:38 - Are you a fangirl of Kovid? (Kitty and Calibre creator)

00:58:59 - Which Linux distro do you use? EndeavourOS

01:01:10 - From Ubuntu to Arch

01:04:52 - Do regular updates on a day you have time

01:09:21 - Thoughts on NixOS

01:10:17 - Thoughts on macOS and the miscon…
Echasnovski (pt 1): mini.nvim, MiniMax & Neovim Contributions

14 januari 2026 · 1 uur 56 min
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Echasnovski is the creator of mini.nvim, as per the website: Lees meer

"Library of 40+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.9 and higher) experience with minimal effort."

He's also the creator of MiniMax:

"MiniMax is a collection of fully working self-contained Neovim configs. All of the them: Use mostly MINI to showcase its capabilities. Provide out of the box a stable, polished, and feature rich Neovim experience. Share minimal structure with potential to build upon. Contain extensively commented config files meant to be read."

The interview is over 3 hours long, so it is split in 2. Part 2 is going to be released soon

Video:

https://youtu.be/ypJTkwarAVE

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:01:36 - How do we pronounce your name

00:04:23 - What do you do in the neovim community?

00:07:53 - Neovim 0.5 and the wild wild west of lua plugins

00:10:23 - We've been planning this interview for over 6 months

00:12:20 - Echasnovski's ban on reddit

00:14:59 - Colorscheme theory (that I didn't understand, not normie friendly)

00:22:10 - Color theory is very complex as everyone is different

00:23:30 - Gruvbox is for old people, highly saturated colors

00:27:15 - Echasnovski created the default Neovim colorscheme

00:27:38 - Justin Keyes also likes boring colors. Old soul trapped in a young body

00:29:17 - Is Justin a dictator?

00:32:18 - Why the reddit ban?

00:38:49 - long reddit posts go through mod's approval

00:40:17 - How does the shadown ban work?

00:42:02 - Shoutout to Lukas Reineke

00:43:37 - Account restored by a misterious reddit employee

00:45:19 - Self hosting git server, codeberg, tangled.org

00:48:02 - Why planning on self hosting?

00:49:17 - Explaining the repo structure of mini.nvim

00:50:44 - You also have a picker? mini.pick

00:52:15 - Sylvan Franklin seems to use mini.pick

00:52:53 - Custom pi…
Sylvan Franklin: Looks Like a 12 Year Old, but Already has Peach Fuzz

11 januari 2026 · 1 uur 43 min
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This is the 2nd time (or third time, would be forth but he no showed no called me once, MF) that Vimothée Chalamet AKA @sylvanfranklin shows up in my channel. In the last interview we discussed about Neovim, drugs (including Adderall), and many other topics. But it seems that as of Q4 2025 he's going for the kefir, kombucha, yoga pants, breathing techniques, pachamama and on his way to become a zen monk. Or maybe not. Let's see what he's up to because he changes his mind every couple of months. Lees meer

Video:

https://youtube.com/live/vLfaiRHT6bo

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough
YouTux: Linux Distros, Supporting FOSS, Apple & More

7 januari 2026 · 1 uur 51 min
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YouTux is a fairly new YouTube channel, only 1.5 years and it has double my subscribers, we'll touch on a lot of interesting and probably controversial topics. If you want to support open source projects, for every $5 donate as superchats, YouTux will donate the same amount to an open source project. All the superchats will also be donated to an open source project. Lees meer

All of the podcast episodes are available in all podcasting platforms, like spotify, apple music, deezer, etc. If you don't find it in one, let me know and I'll add it

Video:

https://youtube.com/live/TOUby-uuZ4I

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00 - Introduction and Audio Check

02:00 - Guest Introduction and Channel Growth

04:00 - Discussing Linux Distributions and Hardware

06:00 - Transition to Void Linux and Debian Politics

09:00 - Polarization in the Open Source Community

12:00 - Debian's Political Changes and Systemd

16:00 - Value of Disagreement and Text Editors

18:00 - Critique of Systemd and Unix Philosophy

20:00 - IBM's Role and Linux Fragmentation

24:00 - Wayland vs X11 and Ubuntu's Evolution

28:00 - Critique of Zorin OS and Distro Recommendations

32:40 - Thoughts on arch

35:51 - Donations dynamic

37:42 - Zorin OS scam

43:55 - What terminal do you use

45:00 - Thoughts on Omarchy

46:27 - woke non woke

48:20 - Debian king, Slackware the queen

49:48 - Linkarzu switching to Void Linux?

51:15 - 21K subs, burnout?

54:44 - background, studies

55:38 - sponsorships and intellectual freedom

59:00 - tired of watching youtube and the algorithm?

01:01:45 - favorite youtubers RiccardoPalombo and antirez

01:04:28 - Bathroom break and pulp fiction mask

01:06:33 - Thoughts on NixOS

01:07:30 - I have no mercy

01:08:12 - The queen @AndreaBorman and why the mask?

01:09:45 - Thoughts on macOS

01:12:40 - Apple M series hardware

01:13:55 - Snapdragon and ARM on Linux?

01:14:4…
4 Linux Queens vs 1 MacOS Virgin

3 januari 2026 · 1 uur 36 min
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Stability wisdom and a peaceful life, or bleeding edge? Some say Debian is a legacy distro with legacy packages, some say Arch gives them nightmares. I'm still trying to get a response for the question I've been asking in all these interviews, which distro should I try first 😂 So who is right then, who should we trust? Lees meer

Video:

https://youtu.be/pkLG2SwR7J8

Participants:

https://youtube.com/⁨@AndreaBorman⁩

https://youtube.com/⁨@DistroTube⁩

https://youtube.com/@tony-btw

https://youtube.com/@LinuxRenaissance

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:01:55 - 4 linux queens vs 1 mac gigachad

00:03:23 - Andrea Borman

00:06:51 - DistroTube

00:10:44 - Darth

00:14:21 - Tony

00:17:53 - Darth's hat and red hat

00:20:30 - FreeBSD

00:21:27 - Andrea Borman Demo

00:24:45 - SuperChat by Darth

00:26:36 - DistroTube Demo

00:30:37 - Wheres DT from and weather

00:32:30 - DT switching to CachyOS and audio issues

00:36:42 - Copyright strikes

00:41:25 - DT strikes tony on the "Propietary Garbage" phrase

00:41:53 - Andrea issues with ads, brave, firefox, chromium

00:43:45 - Darth demo

00:49:15 - Wallpapers do most of the heavy lifting when ricing

00:49:57 - Transparent terminal?

00:50:45 - Tony's demo (OXWM)

00:53:49 - Only If you do YouTube you need more than 1 monitor

00:56:01 - Andrea, why Debian and not Arch

00:59:23 - DT's thoughts on Debian

01:01:49 - Darths thoughts on Arch as a Debian user

01:06:18 - Gaming and streaming at the same time on Debian

01:08:08 - Malware in the AUR

01:09:26 - DT: Do you trust the AUR with your soul?

01:10:23 - Andrea dissing on the AUR

01:11:54 - Dependencies and the chaotic AUR

01:13:48 - Tony's thoughts on Debian

01:14:20 - Debian is gentoo with a GUI installer

01:16:13 - Dependency hell in Debian

01:17:05 - Thoughts on Omarchy

01:25:02 - Tonarchy

01:27:32 - X11 vs Wayland