Christine Lemmer-WebberInterview
Developer, co-founder of MediaGoblin
Adapted from Christine Lemmer-Webber's interview on Uses This, published 11 July 2017. 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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I also have a Kinesis Advantage2 keyboard because a few years ago I had serious repetitive strain issue problems.
At one point I also used foot pedals for ctrl and alt but I kind of stopped doing that, but I'm not sure why.
Communication
Productivity
Notes
Coding & Development
I think the most fun of these is GNU 8sync, which is an implementation of the actor model in Guile.
(Guix is the userspace package manager, which can run on any distribution, and GuixSD is Guix turned into full-on distro form.) It's pretty incredible for a few reasons: it's a functional package manager, which I think doesn't say much to most people, so I like to say "it's like Git for your whole operating system".
This is (aside from the libre-pureness) the distinguishing feature between Guix and Nix.
Design
For whatever reason, even though I can run OpenGL blob-free on this, it was one of Intel's earlier graphics cards, and the performance has gotten pretty bad for anything 3D.
(I miss being able to do artwork in Blender..) For everything else though it's surprisingly a pretty robust machine for something nearly a decade old.
Media
Some day maybe I'll learn to use Krita, which seems pretty cool.
Storage
Other
I'm running the GNU/Linux distribution GuixSD.