Stefano ZacchiroliInterview
Computer science researcher, teacher, developer (Debian)
Adapted from Stefano Zacchiroli's interview on Uses This, published 3 March 2015. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
My current ThinkPad is a T440s, i7 CPU, 12GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and a Full HD display (not touchscreen, as I don't see the point of it).
When at the office I connect my laptop to an external LCD monitor and the best mechanical keyboard I've ever used: a Das Keyboard Model S Ultimate.
I also have a Squeezebox 3 as music network player.
Communication
Browser
Notes
Org-mode as note tracker and TODO list manager (again, with mutt integration)
Ikiwiki (with Git) for Web publishing
Coding & Development
To fill that gap I'm using the Shellshape extension; the result is good enough for my needs.
GNU Emacs for all sorts of text editing, including coding
Git for versioning all sorts of text files
git-annex for sharing large files (e.g., backups, music, movies, pictures, etc) among computers.
Ledger for accounting (again, with Git)
Other
I'm a Debian Developer, former three-time Debian Project Leader, and Board Director at the Open Source Initiative (OSI)</a>.
In terms of Debian variants, I run Debian stable on server machines, except the Raspberry Pi that runs a dedicated Debian variant called Raspbian.