Phil HagelbergInterview
Hacker-errant (Heroku)
Adapted from Phil Hagelberg's interview on Uses This, published 25 January 2012. 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 use a ThinkPad X200s, which is about as light a machine (1.1 kg) as you can get and still have a comfortable full-size keyboard.
Communication
Since joining Heroku I've moved to an IRC bouncer hosted on Heroku.
Productivity
Browser
There are still a few things that aren't feasible to be implemented in Emacs Lisp yet, but Conkeror lets me maintain the runtime-modifiable paradigm in the browser.
Notes
Coding & Development
I do as much as I can in GNU Emacs since it pains me to use monolithic software that can't be modified at runtime.
It does this by being implemented in JavaScript and providing a rich system of dotfiles, REPL, and hooks.
Media
Other
There's a unixy tool called dmenu that allows you to pipe a list of choices in and presents the user with a list of options that dynamically narrows as you type.
In the bigger picture, I'm currently using Debian Squeeze after having been on Ubuntu since its second release in 2005.