This page describes the changes I made to my toolchain in the last year. True to my writing style, this will be short and (hopefully) sweet.

The changes in (roughly) decreasing significance:

1. Switched to usingZsh along with theOh My Zsh framework. I have used Bash for about 30 years, so this was not done lightly. The killer plugin iszsh-autosuggestions, which provides Fish-like suggestions. Very addictive.

2. Moved away from Firefox to theVivaldi Browser. It took a bit of getting used to, but it seems to come with almost all the plugins/extensions that I require built in. TheQuick Commands capability is excellent. I feel a bit sad as I realise that this is just Google Chrome re-skinned.

3. For my personal machine, I switched to runningFedora Linux, as I have a love/hate relationship with Ubuntu. So far I am coping just fine, and it feels more developer friendly.

4. I learnt to use the Org Capture extension forVivaldi/Chrome and Firefox. This was a game changer for me at work, as I can use it to track what web pages I need to review. I useOrg Mode to run my work life.

5. I switched toCounsel fromHelm. I was motivated when Helm was discontinued for a short period of time, and I found that Counselfelt faster and worked for my use-cases. Note, I have not found a replacement forhelm-org-rifle to search my Org files.

6. I learn to use theHydra package to create my own contextual menus in Emacs.

7. I useLedger for tracking my finances. This year I embraced using the reporting capabilities inledger-mode, which dramatically improved my work-flow.

That's it.