Brian KernighanInterview
Computer scientist (Unix), writer
Adapted from Brian Kernighan's interview on Uses This, published 6 June 2013. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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A couple of Kindles for my wife; I don't care to read on them, so they're not much used.
Communication
As the last representative of the dinosaur era, I read mail mostly with Alpine, which is faster and easier than any web-based system I know, and does a nice job of storing my mail locally.
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
Every once in a while I try emacs but have never gotten fluent enough to make it worth switching.
Other
I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad with XP but never take it anywhere, though for some things it's actually way faster than newer computers.