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romkatv
powerlevel10k
Shell2019–2026
romkatv / powerlevel10k

powerlevel10k

A Zsh theme

26Distinct people
33Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
55.4KGitHub stars
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A Zsh theme

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HN mentions by year33 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-16 22:59:59 UTC to 2026-03-26 10:51:16 UTC.

02468102019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 7 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1073
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Am i the only one who feels fish is not worth it despite of hype? Don't get me wrong. I think that fish is really good shell. BUT... After adding the following plugins to zsh(before you chime in, it's just adding these lines,not anything configuring much. also it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where as good as configured zsh. 1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager) 2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... 3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo... 4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions 5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions 6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab 7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration
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is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Also, posix compat and almost bash compat of zsh is plus. I acknowledge that zsh isn't perfect shell either and I have tried and failed few times in past to switch to fish. If you provide me compelling reason/s to switch to fish, I am all ears.
In Fish – A friendly interactive shell
Stuff I'm thankful for, in no particular order. None of these are particularly unique to me, nor are they obscure and hipster, they're just stuff I have found myself really thankful for. powerlevel10k because it makes adding custom sections to my shell prompt really straightforward. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k terraform because I have a job wrangling it lol asdf because it manages versions of software for me really well and it has thus far been rock solid reliable. https://asdf-vm.com/ Emacs because it's about as configurable and customizable as my most insane requirements. And emacs lisp is very cool. Similarly, vim and vscode are also dear to me. Factorio! because of course Factorio, it's amazing. Similarly Kerbal Space Program. Firefox for standing up against the chrome hegemony nowadays, and for being so exciting back in
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1998 with its initial open source decision. And Tree Style Tabs, because every time I have to use a browser without it, my skin crawls at the lack of organization. https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab And the big ones: grep, sed, awk, cut, sort, uniq, jq for all the times they've turned something incomprehensible into something useful to this tiny mind. EDIT: oh and zsh because zmodload zsh/datetime gives me $EPOCHSECONDS which makes life so much easier to make cool prompt segments like "days and hours since last commit" and "remaining auth session time in minutes and seconds" # display time since last commit in days and hours gdate -d @$(($EPOCHSECONDS-$(git log -1 --format=%ct))) -u +"(%-dd %-Hh ago)"
In Software I’m thankful for (2021)
The last time I spent time looking into a font I ended up going with MesloLGS + NerdFont. I never see people recommend it or talk about it but its been perfect for me. I wonder if theres been new developments that make other fonts better, or if its just a little old and not promoted anymore. I use it for programming and all my terminals and haven't found a reason to bother with anything else https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k#meslo-nerd-font-pat... https://github.com/romkatv/dotfiles-public/blob/master/.loca...
In Programming Fonts
Fish is pretty decent and so is oil, but I still use zsh because of its POSIX compatibilty - which, in my opinion is a huge plus. Pimping zsh with powerlevel10k[1], some custom dotfiles and scripts feels like having enough convenience, while still using POSIX. I use "Pure" theme by the way, because it also works nicely in not so modern Terminals, if you replace PROMPT_CHAR with > instead of using the default unicode one... If there were only these two to choose from, I can't tell you, which one to use. I would just recommend NOT linking the chosen one to /bin/sh, but using either fish or oil for your daily use cases and linking dash to /bin/sh for keeping your OS scripts POSIX compatible and working. I, personally, have come to the conclusion, that zsh is good enough for me and will be until something revolutionary happens. [1] https://gi
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In Ask HN: Oil or Fish Shell?
At some point in grad school a few years ago, I was procrastinating furiously and did a deep dive into the font I would prefer for coding, terminal, etc. I ultimately landed on Meslo LGS with Nerd Font after also looking at different shells. I'm not a fan of ligature so don't care about those fonts Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on something better or if just the Meslo people came out with something great and haven't felt the need to promote it on the web in a few years since they are all gainfully employed. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
In JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

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