I do this annual audit of my dev setup. What tools did I keep? What did I finally ditch? What snuck in and became irreplaceable?
What stayed
- Neovim — still my primary editor. LazyVim makes config maintenance bearable.
- Tmux — session management. I live in it.
- Zsh + Starship — fast prompt, great defaults.
- Git + lazygit — lazygit is the TUI that made me actually enjoy git.
What’s new
- Zellij — I’m testing it as a tmux replacement. The UI is friendlier.
- Ghostty — fastest terminal I’ve used. GPU-rendered, minimal.
- Yazi — a terminal file manager that just works.
What I dropped
VS Code is gone from my daily rotation. I used it for 4 years, but Neovim + Cursor cover everything it did, better. I also dropped Notion in favour of plain markdown files synced with Syncthing.
The best dev environment is the one you stop thinking about.
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