Shell on Thorsten Hans

Frictionless zsh And oh-my-zsh Management With Antigen

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I love tinkering my shell environment. I found myself sitting down during the weekend and doing an overhaul of my configuration approach for ZSH. That said, I decided to change my ZSH plugin management and started using Antigen .

Antigen is a small set of helper functions that allow friction-less management of ZSH plugins. Personally, I was addicted to vim for decades and used vundle to manage my vim customizations. As the official Antigen website mentions: “Antigen is to ZSH what Vundle is to vim.”

5 Types Of ZSH Aliases You Should Know

Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

My shell means everything to me. It is the first program I start in the morning and the last one I close in the evening. It is the program that I regularly tweak to boost my overall productivity. From my perspective, Microsoft’s release of Windows Terminal 1.0 and WSL 2.0 will boost overall Shell adoption. Over the past decade, I have seen numerous users installing and using different shells. However, the number of people that invest time in configuring their shell to be more productive is just a small percentage. And that is a shame!

How to Clean ZSH History Temporary

Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I am super fussy when it comes to terminal configuration. I tweak my dotfiles now and then to optimize my workflow and improve my overall productivity.

I love having features like auto-suggestion. However, I work for different customers, and I do quite a lot of public speaking at developer conferences (or virtual events these days). In situations like these, I have to clean ZSH history entirely for the current terminal session, to prevent me from leaking sensitive information unintentionally.

Autocompletion for kubectl and aliases using oh-my-zsh

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Kubernetes is managed and used by utilizing the command line interface kubectl. I got a ton of questions regarding my terminal configuration for daily k8s tasks. Questions like “Which aliases do you use for regular k8s tasks?” or “How did you get autocompletion for all the k8s stuff up and running on your mac?” So this post will answer those questions quickly to ensure everyone will become more productive and can spin up even more pods and nodes in less time 🚀

Treat your iTerm2 like Guake

Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

iTerm2 is a real productivity boost for macOS users. There are numerous great features built in the terminal replacement. This article will explain how to configure the hotkey window iTerm is offering.

Over the past couple of weeks, I found myself using Ubuntu quiet often. Unfortunately, iTerm2 isn’t available for Ubuntu, but there is Guake which is another powerful terminal. The experience and integration Guake is offering for Linux distributions is amazing, Guake registers a global shortcut to easily open the terminal no matter where you’re currently working on.

Setting up iTerm2 with OH-MY-ZSH and Powerline on OSX

Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

When people ask me why I’m using a Mac instead of a Windows device for doing all my stuff, I always end up with a single but significant reason: I have a real shell! Most hardcore Windows fans are answering to this comment: “Well there is PowerShell” or: “Hey we have Cygwin” but to be honest, those are no alternatives to a real shell 🙂

A few people asked me over the time which configuration/theme and stuff I use within my terminal and because I’ve to set up a new device in these days (a stunning brand new 13" MBP Retina with ForceTouch)