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➡️Foundation

Fonts

Use Nerd Fonts - easier on eyes, supports programming ligatures and is also used by terminal applications.

There are numerous fonts to choose from. May I recommend -

• FiraCode Nerd Font. Preview
• Hack Nerd Font. Preview

Shared Settings

I use a shared config folder in OneDrive for easier sharing of configuration across machines. I name the folder .config and it exists at $HOME\OneDrive\99-share\.config. Note that I can use $HOME in Powershell.

➡️Editor

VSCode

Use VSCode - that’s all your probably need.

Vim / Neovim

Neovim is awesome, fast and can make you super efficient.

Download, install Neovim.

winget install Neovim.Neovim

Using your own config can take time and effort - I found it easier to start with pre-configured setup -

• Lunar
• Astro

➡️Terminal

WSL

Setup WSL with Ubuntu - see this tutorial.

Use ZSH.

sudo apt-get install zsh

Configure Oh my ZSH.

sudo apt-get install git
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Start zsh every time you open wsl.

vi ~/.bashrc

Enter the below lines at the beginning of the file.

if test -t 1; then
exec zsh
fi

Edit the ~/.zshrc and set a theme.

vi ~/.zshrc

# Find and change this
ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

Find pre-configured oh-my-zsh themes here.

Starship Shell

Starship is a better shell with easy configuration.

Below setup process is for Powershell. You would have to do this for wsl > zsh too.

winget install --id Starship.Starship

Create a file in the shared config folder starship.toml.

Create the config file for Powershell -$HOME\OneDrive\Documents\PowerShellMicrosoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 if it does not exist. Start starship each time Powershell is opened by using two lines in the config file.

$ENV:STARSHIP_CONFIG = "$HOME\OneDrive\99-share\.config\starship.toml"
Invoke-Expression (&starship init powershell)

Configure starship in $HOME\OneDrive\99-share\.config\starship.toml.

# Get editor completions based on the config schema
"$schema" = 'https://starship.rs/config-schema.json'

# Inserts a blank line between shell prompts
add_newline = true

Here are a bunch of pre-configured options for Starship.

Alternatives:

• Oh my posh

First off, let me congratulate you for losing your way to the ‘about’ page. Not sure why you would browse further and have a look at the below paragraphs, but I leave it to your good judgment.

I am Prashanth Krishnamurthy, and I code a bit. This blog carries a few learnings, more than enough failures, and other stuff that I wished I knew earlier. And, most of all, an expression of sheer amazement to be part of this world here and now.

Along with web development using Javascript I dabble in Laravel, .NET, desktop apps, mobile apps, and static sites. I have a YouTube channel on web development that has a tendency to go into hibernation.

I do salesforce.com implementations at work, and am based out of Bangalore, India. I like doing enterprisey stuff but also love a couple of years I spent as an entrepreneur.

Technology

techformist is built on Hugo. The objectives for using Hugo were to -

1. Keep everything simple with low build times. I stand by this although I am not sure how this will matter for day-to-day usage and <10k posts
2. Persistently use at least one thing that is non-JS

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