Tmux, Powerline, and info overload

I’ve written about tmux before, and I still find it unabashedly awesome. As I’ve been gluing pieces of status-bar code together, I’ve been on the lookout for something a bit more organized — thus discovering tmux-powerline was a bit of a relief.

You’ll proabably to have to expand that to see the details, but there’s a couple little improvements that have a big effect on staying in the terminal.

• The local IP address is handy for using on multiple computers (dotfiles!) for quick ssh’ing.
• The git status (branch, # of changes) is awesome and responsive - after committing, it’ll disappear within a second.
• The “now_playing” script is my favorite: it supports iTunes, Rdio, Spotify, even Last.fm! I’m using Rdio right now, but knowing I can tweak the config fairly easily and have it just work is preferable to my old Applescript monstrosity.
• Weather: because we don’t go outside when we program.
• Date and time for fullscreen terminals. Awesome.

This addon has been a total game-changer for me in the last couple days in terms of motivation - I want to stay in the terminal now. It may seem like info overload but I find it to be the perfect amount to be able to quickly glance without switching contexts back to the GUI. Next up? Figuring out that whole Vim thing…