Fallthrough

The Joy of Building

Mar 21, 2026
They nerd out over migrating NeoVim to Lua, swapping shells to Nushell, and using LLMs to clean config cruft. Terminal emulators, LSP and TreeSitter get compared alongside custom keybinding strategies. Hardware chatter ranges from Framework desktops and Mac Studios to 10G networking, NAS setups, and headless GPU discoveries. They also cover Wi Fi with per‑device keys and tinkering with home lab routers.
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Switching To Ghostty Made The Terminal Feel Native

  • Kris switched from iTerm2 to Ghostty and noticed terminal snappiness and native-feel rendering improvements.
  • He compares the experience to moving from Vim to NeoVim: faster, smoother, and more like a GUI while staying terminal-based.
ADVICE

Reassess Tools Only When They Solve Your Actual Bottleneck

  • Periodically reassess core tools and invest time switching only if the bottleneck aligns with the tool's benefit.
  • Matthew recommends evaluating whether mouse vs keyboard workflow constrains your productivity before switching editors.
ADVICE

Try Nushell For Typed Shell Pipelines

  • Try Nushell for typed, object-oriented shell scripting when you want structured data and cross-platform similarity to PowerShell.
  • Kris chose Nushell because its object model and structured outputs make piping JSON/TOML/http results easier than Bash.
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