https://dolftax.com/tags/tools/ Recent content in Tools on dolftax Hugo en-us Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dolftax.com/posts/case-for-moddable-software/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dolftax.com/posts/case-for-moddable-software/ <p>I enjoy tweaking my tools &ndash; Ghostty, Neovim, tmux, zsh, etc. Keybindings, layouts, little scripts that glue them together. It always took longer than it should, an evening to wire one thing to another, most of it trial and error.</p> <p>What they have in common: everything is a config file. I wrote a custom Gruvbox theme for Ghostty because the built-in palette wasn&rsquo;t quite right. Last week I ripped out my tmux status bar and replaced it with a shell script. Three tools, three text files, talking to each other. Compare that to most commercial software, where customization means a settings panel with a handful of toggles and maybe a theme picker. The developer decided what you need and sealed the rest shut. Config-driven software works the other way around: here&rsquo;s the core, here are the knobs, do what you want. The developer builds a foundation and gets out of the way.</p>