Down to the core
I used a sliver of Prezto's 22,000 lines, so I kept the part I cared about—my prompt—and wrote the few hundred lines of shell setup I wanted around it. Then I found out how many small conveniences the framework had been providing all along.
Surviving the trip home
The laptop is a window; the VM is the room. The trouble with a room across a tunnel is that the tunnel keeps dropping. EternalTerminal is the fix, a session that survives a closed lid, a changed network, and the ride home, and is exactly where you left it the next morning.
