This week Kris and Matt go full homelab. The conversation starts with Kris refreshing his dev setup: migrating NeoVim to 100% Lua, switching from ZSH to NuShell, and rethinking Tmux, all with the help of an LLM. The discussion then moves into hardware: Framework Desktop vs. Mac Studio, the RAM price explosion, 10G networking, WiFi with Private Pre-Shared Keys, and GPUs without display ports. The episode closes with a teaser for a future discussion on why Kris isn't worried about superintelligence.

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Table of Contents:

Prologue (00:00:00)
Chapter 1: Baby Prep and Desk Organization (00:00:59)
Chapter 2: Upgrading NeoVim with LLM Assistance (00:04:22)
Chapter 3: The Vim Journey: Why Terminal Editors Still Win (00:09:41)
Chapter 4: Terminal Emulators: Ghostty, Helix, and the Quest for Speed (00:17:12)
Chapter 5: LSP, TreeSitter, and the End of the M-to-N Plugin Problem (00:20:14)
Chapter 6: Customizing Key Bindings and Evaluating Your Tools (00:28:44)
Chapter 8: Switching to Nushell (00:37:53)
Chapter 9: Tmux, Session Persistence, and When to Drop Your Multiplexer (00:51:31)
Chapter 10: Claude Code's RAM Problem and Agent Permissions (01:03:04)
Chapter 12: The "Nothing Matters in Six Months" Paradox (01:11:23)
Chapter 13: Hardware Dreams: Framework Desktop to Mac Studio (01:13:52)
Chapter 15: 10G Networking and the Magic of Private Pre-Shared Keys (01:21:15)
Chapter 17: AI, Superintelligence, and a Teaser for Next Time (01:29:17)
Epilogue (01:36:16)

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(00:00) - Prologue
(00:59) - Chapter 1: Baby Prep and Desk Organization
(04:22) - Chapter 2: Upgrading NeoVim with LLM Assistance
(09:41) - Chapter 3: The Vim Journey: Why Terminal Editors Still Win
(17:12) - Chapter 4: Terminal Emulators: Ghostty, Helix, and the Quest for Speed
(20:14) - Chapter 5: LSP, TreeSitter, and the End of the M-to-N Plugin Problem
(28:44) - Chapter 6: Customizing Key Bindings and Evaluating Your Tools
(37:53) - Chapter 8: Switching to Nushell
(51:31) - Chapter 9: Tmux, Session Persistence, and When to Drop Your Multiplexer
(01:03:04) - Chapter 10: Claude Code's RAM Problem and Agent Permissions
(01:11:23) - Chapter 12: The "Nothing Matters in Six Months" Paradox
(01:13:52) - Chapter 13: Hardware Dreams: Framework Desktop to Mac Studio
(01:21:15) - Chapter 15: 10G Networking and the Magic of Private Pre-Shared Keys
(01:29:17) - Chapter 17: AI, Superintelligence, and a Teaser for Next Time
(01:36:16) - Epilogue

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