Posted March 06, 2013 02:31 By Veezus Kreist (http://blog.veez.us/)
I've always been a pretty austere guy. I'd rather have less things than more: every time I move I throw out half of what I have. I'm not big into customization, either; if there's a non-ridiculous default, that's what I'm using.
That ethos extends into my work. I use the default Terminal.app on my MacBook, with the built-in Pro theme. I use exactly 12 vim plugins, including my favorite color scheme. My dot files amount to only 300-some lines, including vim options, bash options, git options, and comments.
That's the background for this post on single-session development, the way I've been developing lately. When I say session, I mean shell session. I mean, log into one shell on my laptop, maximize it, and run everything in that one session: no tabs, no screen
, and certainly no tmux
. Bernerd Schaefer started me down this path in his Laptop-Driven Development; that post has been hanging out in the back of my