Henry Misc on Neovim, Workflows, Keyboards & Coding as a Craft

Hendrik (Henry Misc) at this point in time has only a few videos out, 18 to be exact, and 7K subs, so that speaks for itself. Relatively new channel that is taking the Neovim community by surprise.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/uj_3u1Dki3g

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:01:33 - Hendrik is from Germany but living in Barcelona Spain

00:03:31 - Hendrik did business studies in college. How did you end up in tech then?

00:05:56 - Stepdad

00:07:44 - Why so few videos and so many subs?

00:12:54 - Why did you decide to start a youtube channel?

00:15:55 - iPhone "siri new note" creates a text file

00:16:27 - Script videos?

00:17:17 - What's this 12 year old Sylvan Franklin kid doing?

00:18:50 - How was your first experience with vim motions?

00:21:38 - Ergonomics and hand health, any pain?

00:23:27 - Hendrik's keyboard, iris by keeb.io

00:28:59 - corne min prototype

00:32:21 - Is the ferris sweep a mistake?

00:35:02 - Sponsorships

00:37:25 - Barefoot shoes, this guy's gonna become the next Ben Vallack

00:38:56 - setapp and 1password, MFs if u read dis, sponsor me

00:42:00 - Don's subscribe to brilliant until they pay me, F those MFs

00:42:49 - Hendrik and I are vegetarians. Our experiences.

00:46:36 - How did it feel when you first tried hjkl

00:48:45 - Why did you decide to go with neovim and not vim? ThePrimeagen and devaslife

00:51:41 - Experience with Neovim distros?

00:55:13 - kickstart.nvim

00:56:54 - Do you think dealing with the neovim config becomes overkill?

01:02:24 - Impostor syndrome? Dunning-Kruger effect

01:08:18 - How has it been living abroad?

01:13:26 - How old are you?

01:14:02 - Obsidian for note taking

01:16:02 - Neovim folds demo

01:17:47 - Do you use the Zettelkasten method for notes?

01:18:46 - Demo Marksman LSP for linking markdown notes

01:22:34 - AI related IDEs? Claude code

01:30:58 - Emacs?

01:33:59 - Linux?

01:35:31 - Would you buy a mac or a computer to run with linux?

01:39:43 - Experience with Arch?

01:42:37 - Omarchy?

01:44:56 - You like macOS?

01:46:20 - macOS window manager?

01:49:10 - Using yabai or aerospace?

01:52:10 - Hot take: tiles are a mistake

01:54:11 - Do you use social media?

01:57:12 - Are you a slave of youtube analytics?

02:00:10 - Niching down?

02:03:19 - Drugs and alcohol

02:11:22 - Supreme being, God. Church tax in Germany

02:22:03 - Unsolicited vegetarianism advise

02:27:57 - LazyGit?

02:30:12 - Tmux?

02:32:44 - ThePrimeagen tmux-sessionizer

02:40:16 - Thoughts on nixos, macos install script video

02:41:59 - Wezterm ghostty?

02:46:24 - Keyboard layout

02:48:55 - Are you into music and instruments?

02:50:30 - Bring me the horizon and knocked loose

02:52:45 - Ben Bohmer, Tom day, Iron maiden, System of a Down

02:57:45 - Movies or series? K-dramas

03:00:37 - Mr. Robot series. Watch the office man

03:02:58 - Anchorman movie and Beautiful boy

03:04:47 - Videogames?

03:06:45 - 3rd point to his success

03:11:30 - The Neovim subreddit, bad experiences?

03:13:25 - How is YouTube going to be when the haters show up?

03:14:21 - Theo and the gpt-5 drama. Is there bad publicity?

03:16:42 - Pirate Software drama