tmux is worse is better

Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

tmux (short for “terminal mux” (short for “multiplexer”)) is i3 for your terminal. Oh, it’s so much more than that, and I recently discovered with some joy that it is installed by default on OpenBSD, but its fundamental value add to any programmer who has to SSH into servers more than once a week is it allows you to split your screen up into multiple independent shells without needing a graphical environment at all. If you want to walk the path of true digital minimalism, vanilla Vim and tmux or its spiritual grandfather screen are all you need.

I'm turning 30 so naturally I'm switching to OpenBSD

Sat, 04 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’m kidding, I’m switching to OpenBSD because I like security or code quality or something.

It’s totally not because the inexorable march of aging is starting to show its effects on my ability to down necessary-evil trivia like me and my friends used to down forties in the Ahhhnald after dark, and so I’d like to settle down with a software ecosystem I can study in real depth once without feeling like 20% of what I absorb in year X will be deprecated by year X+10.

Bsd on Andrew Quinn's TILs

tmux is worse is better

I'm turning 30 so naturally I'm switching to OpenBSD