27 - Joosep Alviste

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Joosep is a lead front-end engineer living in Tallinn, Estonia, and working at Scoro, a work management SaaS business. He’s experienced with back-end development, DevOps, mobile development, and machine learning. As an avid Vim user, he loves to improve the developer experience of his teams.

Some of the things he likes doing outside of work include improving my development environment, playing video games (currently enjoying Hades), working on side projects (Serieslist is a web application for keeping track of your TV series, and seen episodes), and playing disc golf (a great sport for casually getting some fresh air and exercise).

Neovim and Terminal

Joosep’s dotfiles is a bit more than 5 years old now with over 2000 commits, and it has changed significantly over time. Nowadays, he mostly works with TypeScript, React, and Vue, so his Neovim config is mainly built with keeping those technologies in mind. He tried to keep his Neovim setup minimal, only keeping around the plugins and features he uses.

One of his favorite Neovim features is the Treesitter support, which he quite often finds himself playing around with. He even wrote an article on making key maps "smart" with the help of Treesitter, as well as nvim-ts-context-commentstring (a plugin for setting the commentstring based on the cursor location in a file). Other than Treesitter, he enjoys using snippets and, of course, the LSP features.

Favorite Tools

• lazygit: A simple, keyboard-centered Git UI in the terminal.

• kitty: A fast, feature-rich, GPU-based terminal emulator.

• Raycast: An application launcher and automation tool for macOS.

• fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder.

• Zsh: “Even though Zsh is a relatively standard shell that people use, I would still highlight it as I make heavy use of all kinds of Zsh features and have even written my Zsh config from scratch.”

Dotfiles

You can find his dotfiles here: JoosepAlviste/dotfiles.

The readme includes some instructions for getting started, but it's probably best to use it as an inspiration and to pick some of the more interesting pieces from it. Feel free to open an issue if you have any questions about the dotfiles.

Desk Setup

Favorite Books

Technical:

• Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger

Non-Technical:

• Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson