iliana etaoinInterview
Software developer catgirl
Adapted from iliana etaoin's interview on Uses This, published 13 October 2023. 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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Under my desk is a System76 Thelio I use for testing at work.
My primary on-the-go device is a heavily-stickered MacBook Pro ("keysmash").
I use an MX Ergo trackball and I wish they would stop using a rubberized coating for it; after barely over a year of use I can feel it returning to petroleum.
In the homelab-outside-of-home, alongside a handful of friends' servers, is a PowerEdge R620 ("pancake") as my main server.
Communication
I mostly use Mail.app to read email.
Productivity
Browser
Security
I use Tailscale heavily; along with Helix, it's some of the only software I've used recently that feels absolutely magical.
Coding & Development
My Macs get Homebrew installed on them first thing.
Design
Media
Storage
Other
My Macs tend to follow the oldstable release of macOS (Ventura has been out for most a year and I'm on Monterey).
My Thelio is running Helios, Oxide's illumos distribution.
I recently installed Arch Linux on my X270.
Most of my personal infrastructure runs in VMs on the R620 running my NixOS configurations, but I still have some Debian VMs running services I haven't Nixified yet.