Lincoln MullenInterview
Historian, teacher
Adapted from Lincoln Mullen's interview on Uses This, published 11 December 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 have a 15" MacBook Pro with an Intel i7 processor, an SSD, and 16 GB of RAM provided by my department.
I also use a ThinkPad T430 which was my main machine during graduate school.
I have an iPhone 5C but I more and more dislike using a phone for anything.
I really like my Timbuk2 Command Laptop messenger; I wouldn't change a thing about it.
Communication
If I assign students to write blog posts, then I use WordPress.
Productivity
For managing citations I use Zotero, an excellent open-source application and web service by my colleagues at RRCHNM.
Notes
I use some custom LaTeX templates with Pandoc.
My notes are written in Markdown, stored in Git, and edited in Vim, but they are turned into a wiki by Gitit.
Coding & Development
Almost every project is built by GNU Make.
All of that is run through the shell, usually ZSH.
RStudio (in Vim mode) is my only exception to the rule about using Vim for everything; it is a very nicely done IDE for R.
If I can't write it in R, then I use Ruby, which is also beautiful.
Media
Storage
Other
For most websites, like my personal site or my course syllabi, I use Jekyll.
Omeka is also created by my colleagues at RRCHNM.
The ThinkPad runs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.