- I’m old school. I use Emacs
and the command line whenever possible.
- I use Linux exclusively both at home and at work.
- I don’t want eye candy cluttering up my screen, so I use
Ratpoison as my window manager.
Ratpoison is essentially
screen for X. I generally
have just Emacs, a terminal, and a browser running, each in a
full-screen window.
- I’ve found that using a buckling-spring
keyboard and a
trackball
(instead of a mouse) helps reduce the frequency of my RSI flareups.
Using Ratpoison also helps, since it is a keyboard-driven window
manager.
- When I find myself in a shared workspace I use a keyboard with
Cherry MX Clears. I find those
switches simulate the tactile feedback I like without deafening
everyone around me.
- I don’t like strongly opinionated frameworks like
Ember.js that magically do things for you
and hide all the complexity from the developer. I like to know and
understand what is going on under the hood.
- At the same time, I’m a big fan of adopting an opinionated linter
such as Black for each
project. I want my projects to have a consistent coding style, but
I don’t want to spend time negotiating what that style should look
like.