2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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Title: The Setup / Neale Pickett
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After reading [Russ Cox's setup](http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/)
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I thought it might be interesting to write up my own.
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September 18, 2014
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Who are you, and what do you do?
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I write software.
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Mostly I hack around the periphery of free software projects,
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2014-10-24 09:14:53 -06:00
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occasionally tossing patches to projects that capture my interest.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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A partial portfolio is on my [source code page](src/).
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I also do computer security training for middle and high school kids,
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college students, and professionals.
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You can read about that at [dirtbags](http://dirtbags.net/).
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My hobbies include being a (laid back) disc jockey,
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and fiddling around with microcontrollers.
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Hardware
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I've decided to be very energy conscious.
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This means my hardware is low-power and not high-performance.
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At home, I have a Thinkpad X200.
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My wife uses a Chromebook, and we have a FitPC that gets turned on
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when we need to print on our HP LaserJet CM2320.
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My pre-teen daughter has a Nexus 7 tablet,
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and my wife and I both use Nexus 4 phones.
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We also have a Chromecast that's mostly used for Netflix,
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and a Wii.
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At work, I use an Intel NUC.
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Software
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2015-02-02 21:26:20 -07:00
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I run Arch Linux, with a shell script PID 1 that I maintain because I enjoy tinkering with early userspace.
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It uses runit from busybox to manage starting and stopping daemons.
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Runit is a lot like systemd or upstart at core: daemons don't do the double-fork trick, and log to stdout.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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On the desktop, I run Google Chrome, xterm, and acme from plan9port.
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2015-02-02 21:26:20 -07:00
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My window manager varies a lot.
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Most times it's Openbox plus tint2, but sometimes I go back to 9wm (which I maintain).
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I'm starting to make overtures at Wayland.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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Occasionally I kick up inkscape or gimp, and mixxx for my DJ work.
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Most of my non-work computer use is through Chrome, which ties me strongly
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to Linux, for better or worse.
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My non-development stuff is almost entirely in the cloud.
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It's very frustrating to have to go to work where people are still emailing
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Excel spreadsheets and hand-merging edits.
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My FitPC print server runs Ubuntu and some kind of Chromium Cloud Print server thing.
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All my home printing is through Google Cloud Print.
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What would be your dream setup?
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2015-02-02 21:26:20 -07:00
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I'm actually not too far away right now.
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I like working in the cloud, and for my development stuff,
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acme is pretty great.
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I spend a lot of time fretting about window managers.
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Hopefully I can move to Wayland soon, and port 9wm to it.
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Or maybe I can get Chrome to expose its window manager.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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2015-02-02 21:26:20 -07:00
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I kind of wish I didn't need a gazillion packages in order to run my 3 main programs
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(chrome, acme, and xterm).
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But I don't know how I can fix that, and I'm not sure I really even want to.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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I would also like to do away with the FitPC print server.
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I'd love to be able to buy a little box that will hop on our wireless network
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and connect our printer to Google Cloud Print.
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