Let's See Your Terminal
Tags: neovim, terminal, lazyvim, homelab
Published: 2024-04-16 20:56:34

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title: Let's See Your Terminal
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description: Also where I've been lurking
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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:

{% embed https://dev.to/itsjzt/can-i-see-your-terminal--62e %}

This got me thinking about my recent pivot, my switch to [Neovim](https://neovim.io/) by way of [LazyVim](https://www.lazyvim.org/) to write most of my code, and using [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki) to keep terminal states alive after closing a session.

I've tricked out my terminal with [iTerm2](https://iterm2.com/index.html) 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.

![My humble abode](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6qga8j4grijkcaogrx9q.jpeg)
*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](https://www.tiffanywhite.dev/posts/final-thoughts) 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.

![Homelab rack](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/mmbuw6u87juof5do4ywj.jpg)
*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.


![LazyVim with open Neotree](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/17v37xn1eckeivblwqet.png)
*The linter I installed with mason.vim is really particular*.


![LazyVim working on a DNS enumeration tool](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/jvw8e9f5qcpo0clee98g.png)