Knights, Mercenaries and Wizards

Emacs is elegant and seductive: it is indeed a really sophisticated way to use your computer and I’ve acquired a lot of preferences and tastes in the way that I work cause of how emacs facilitates them for the user.

However, I’ve been missing the unix philosophy lately, and living in the CLI was a source of a distinct sort of zen for me around half a decade ago.

So, my current workstation Mac is vanilla nvim + tmux + pi coding agent + firefox.
My experimental base is a GUI-less tty only (tmux, vim, w3m, man pages) NixOs Thinkpad.

I’ve been reading man pages, documentation and thinking more externally with a physical notebook rather than a second brain or journals or a GTD setup or whatever other niceties I’d been using in emacs.

I won’t be replicating those in neovim (minimal LSP, REPL driven, config right now : (pi will edit them for me (I used to maintain a handcrafted one long ago but just restarted completely(did not like the distros (don’t want to just replace doom , one to one))))) and have started getting straight to work on the system while thinking in notebooks.

The cognitive vacuum that emacs has left has been taken up by mathematics (taking on (category theory, symbolic algebra and lambda calculus) in this cycle and freshening up on my ML oriented education as well) : doing (and thinking in) math is inexplicably satisfying.