Nils M HolmInterview
Writer, computer scientist
Adapted from Nils M Holm's interview on Uses This, published 31 March 2020. 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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My preferred brand is the Pilot V Board Master.
Then there are lots of other writing tools, from a Pelikan M200 piston filler fountain pen to an old Wanderer Continental mechanical typewriter to the usual computer gear.
I really like ThinkPads, but for some reason my current workplace machine is a Dell Latitude E6410 notebook computer.
Just to prove the point, I sometimes write texts and programs on my Amstrad NC100 notepad computer.
The Dell is connected to a 24-inch monitor in upright configuration for reading PDFs and a Cherry G80-3000 linear (black MX) keyboard, which I think is one of the best keyboards ever built.
Communication
Productivity
My window manager is a patched version of dwm that uses floating layout exclusively instead of tiling.
Browser
Security
Coding & Development
For writing prose and programs I use BSD's vi (nvi).