tmux &mdash; Nate Dickson Thinks... https://thoughts.natedickson.com/tag:tmux Small Thoughts for a Quiet World. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:21:35 +0000 https://i.snap.as/Ex4mOou4.png tmux &mdash; Nate Dickson Thinks... https://thoughts.natedickson.com/tag:tmux Why I Still Love Computers https://thoughts.natedickson.com/why-i-still-love-computers?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I've made no secret that I'm getting a (GASP) business degree and therefore leaving my life as a full-time developer behind. My manager asked me "what are your long-term plans?" and my response was "well, I'm not getting an MBA to keep being a developer." But as much as I want to move into a role where I can lead developers, I still love the joy of technology, the thrill of learning new things and making these machines do what I want them to do. For example: Command Line Awesomeness So much fun stuff is going on there — a customized status bar with emoji-enabled weather report in the bottom of the tmux window. Ranger and iTerm2 are working together to give me a full-color image preview in a terminal. Things like this highlight the joy of computers: With some time, patience, and a lot of third-party apps, you can make these things do what you want. #tmux #ranger #cli #commandLine #iTerm2 div class="signature" Thoughts? Tell me about them!br/ a href="https://social.lol/@natedickson"on Mastodon/a |del a href="https://thoughts.natedickson.com/a-farewell-to-twitter"on Twitter/a/del| on Remark.as a href="https://remark.as/p/thoughts.natedickson.com/why-i-still-love-computers"Discuss.../a /div]]> I've made no secret that I'm getting a (GASP) business degree and therefore leaving my life as a full-time developer behind. My manager asked me “what are your long-term plans?” and my response was “well, I'm not getting an MBA to keep being a developer.”

But as much as I want to move into a role where I can lead developers, I still love the joy of technology, the thrill of learning new things and making these machines do what I want them to do.

For example:

Command Line Awesomeness

So much fun stuff is going on there — a customized status bar with emoji-enabled weather report in the bottom of the tmux window. Ranger and iTerm2 are working together to give me a full-color image preview in a terminal. Things like this highlight the joy of computers: With some time, patience, and a lot of third-party apps, you can make these things do what you want.

#tmux #ranger #cli #commandLine #iTerm2

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