Judd VinetInterview
Software engineer (Arch Linux), CTO (Bet Smart Media)
Adapted from Judd Vinet's interview on Uses This, published 9 October 2014. 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 presently carry a 2012 MacBook Air 11" around with me wherever I go.
I'm currently on a Nexus 5, which has been a great little device.
One is an Asus 27" and the other is a cool little 15" USB-powered LCD monitor, an AOC e1649Fwu.
I don't use the mouse/trackpad a lot when I'm working, but if I do need to move a pointer around, I'll use a Logitech Anywhere MX if I'm on a desktop surface.
I also keep an older MacBook Pro on my desk that does run OS X.
Communication
For example, since a Facebook widget exists on basically every site on our green Earth, Facebook can easily see what sites you visit on any given day.
Productivity
On top of that, I use the i3 tiling window manager, which I've customized with a couple patches and a number of homegrown utilities that I use to keep myself productive.
Browser
Security
Coding & Development
I run my terminals inside a tmux session, which lets me do fun things like detach from running sessions, broadcast keystrokes to multiple terminals at once (useful when you're doing sysadmin chores on a cluster), and not losing your work if your terminal emulator crashes on you.
In half of my multitudinous terminal sessions, you will find Vim instances.
If I'm inspecting the DOM of a web application or trawling through code on GitHub, then I'll use my clean browser, which has been more fine-tuned to my tastes with customized configuration and useful browser extensions.
Media
Storage
Other
On the Internet, I'm best known as the creator of the Arch Linux distribution, a little project I started back in 2001 when I was in university.
I'm not a big fan of OS X though, so it runs Arch.
This computer mostly serves as a build machine for iOS apps.