Read about the software you use

The last few weeks I’ve been looking into the open calendar, tasks and notes space with the goal of finding or building a privacy-conscious and still practical system. This post is an exploration of the available technology in that space, its problems and how to solve them.

I am a heavy tmux and zsh user and today I noticed that starting a new tmux pane started getting slow. Sometimes it took more than 1 second for my shell in the new pane to become interactive. The only thing a new pane is doing is starting up zsh, so zsh initialization was the likely culprit.

This week I’ve come across some articles (links at the end) that made me pull the trigger on executing an idea I’ve been thinking about for a very long time: Rework my personal website to be as minimalist as it can be.