Recent posts tagged zsh

Every time I opened a terminal, I waited. Not long — maybe a second and a half — but long enough to notice. Long enough to be annoying. I finally decided to profile my zsh startup, and what I found took it from 1.4 seconds down to 53 milliseconds. H...

Every time I opened a terminal, I waited. Not long — maybe a second and a half — but long enough to notice. Long enough to be annoying. I finally decided to profile my zsh startup, and what I found took it from 1.4 seconds down to 53 milliseconds. H...

I maintain a symlink-based dotfiles repo for macOS/zsh. Over time, I'd accumulated three different approaches to managing runtime versions: nvm for Node.js, brew install go for Go, and brew install python@3.13 for Python. Each had its own quirks, its...