Nelson ElhageInterview
Software developer (Stripe)
Adapted from Nelson Elhage's interview on Uses This, published 8 October 2019. 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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Right now, my main laptop is a Google Pixelbook with maxed specs.
I wear a FitBit Charge 3, although I mostly only use it as a watch (and occasionally the built-in timer); I don't use it that much as a fitness or activity tracker.
I love my Kindle Oasis for reading books, and have been on the Kindle train for many years now.
Communication
Coding & Development
I still stubbornly use it even when working in Java or other environments with strong IDEs — there are too many keybindings burned too deep into my psyche.
Recently I got lsp-mode set up, which has been quite nice for the languages with mature server implementations.
Other
I was one of the first engineers at Ksplice, where I worked on our kernel hot-patching technology as well as the build infrastructure and update-distribution system.
For the last seven years, I've worked at Stripe, where I worked on all kinds of infrastructure and software design projects.
I develop inside the Crostini VM environment to get a real Linux environment.
I love the Pixelbook's hardware and find Chrome OS reasonably reliable and pleasant to work with (and it has nice security properties), but I'm getting a bit tired of not having root on my own hardware.