Since I've decided to pivot to another area of tech over the past two years, I returned here to DEV to clean out my over 1100+ Reading List articles and to follow new tags.

While pruning, I came across this article:

Can I see your terminal?

Saurabh Sharma ・ Feb 28 '18

#discuss #windows #mac

This got me thinking about my recent pivot, my switch to Neovim by way of LazyVim to write most of my code, and using tmux to keep terminal states alive after closing a session.

I've tricked out my terminal with iTerm2 being my editor of choice and seeing that old article made me want to share my terminal with the DEV Community.

More on that at the end of the post.

Where I've been

It's been a long time. Life has not been easy. Like at all. Landing and losing two jobs, my mother to dementia, the best therapist I've ever had, my mobility for a whole year after a severe leg injury, and the townhome I rented before our startup cut the non-essential devs from the roster, has worn on me mentally and emotionally, so much so I am not even sure how I am still here. I am currently couch surfing with an old school friend's mom and she's been kind enough to let me setup my computer, TV, PS5, and homelab setup in this tiny room I am in. I am forever grateful for this because if it wasn't for her, I would have been on the street for a year plus as no family here has or is willing to help me out with shelter.

The room before I rearranged it for the 20th time this year

Regardless, I have pivoted to cybersecurity. While I still build software, I am no longer interested in the frontend part of software development and am strictly working in VMs for pentesting and SOC analysis and using Python, Rust, and Go to build tools for red team projects.

I also have a homelab stocked with used and new rack mounted NUCs, a TP-Link 24 port managed switch, a UniFi Dream Machine Pro Switch and AP, and some really old Raspberry Pis I bought a few years ago connected up to another old UPS unit till I move from here to the new place in a couple months.

My server rack with all components mentioned above.

You said something about a terminal, no?

Yes! Here is mine. Share yours if you want to in the comments. Or don't. I'm not your dad.

The linter I installed with mason.vim is really particular.