I've had a good couple of years in terms of tool discovery. Rather than try to tweet about them in bits and bobs, I figured I would write up a few bits and pieces that I like.

I use both Doom Emacs and Direnv a lot, and I discovered -- and with the author of Doom's assistance, solved -- an peculiar issue arising from the interaction of the two.

Doom defines a doom sync command whose job it is to update the compiled elisp for packages, but also to …