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Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by eswat »

Who am I?

I’m just a simple jack-of-all-trades web designer trying to make sense of this crazy, often unnecessarily confusing world.

What hardware am I using?

My nomadic work rig is a 15" MacBook Pro – late-2007 model with the stock hard drive replaced with a SSD – pox on black bezels and glass screens! When at home it is hooked up to a 24" Samsung monitor that I don’t really take advantage of (I usually keep my windows sized to 1400x900 max), a wired Apple keyboard, an Alienware TactX mouse, Logitech Z-5 Speakers and Sony MDR-XD200 headphones. I also have a PC rig that I built in 2008, but I use that strictly for PC gaming now.

I draw my thumbnails and sketches in a large, grided Moleskine notebook with a Lamy Noto ballpoint pen. As for miscellaneous items, Post-It notes act as my todolist, the Kindle is my reading device of choice and I carry a Canon XSi with me every now and then.

And what software?

I guess Photoshop is a given. I use both TextMate and Emacs for churning markup and code. Firefox is what I develop with first because of Firebug and the fact that I don’t use it for browsing otherwise (keeps the history of my real browser clean). I use Slammer for measuring and laying stuff on my screen in a nice and tight grid.

I use Git for version control. I used to use Emacs + Magit for this but have gone back to a forked version of GitX after simplifying my branching model. Forklift is used for quick SFTP work or when I want to browse my local files with a program that doesn’t suck. I use SizeUp to quickly center windows or to place windows in panes when I’m coding.

I work while listening to music, so iTunes + Last.fm is usually always up playing songs I’ve rated four stars or higher.

What would be my dream setup?

I’d love to get rid of this stupidly-large PC tower I have, but I still need my PC gaming fix. Would be if nice laptop tech. eventually caught up to desktop and kept in line so I could have a MacBook that could run Shattered Horizon as well as it can run Photoshop.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by meastham »

Desktop:

  Core i7 930
  6GB DDR3 DRAM
  2x24" ASUS monitors
  Microsoft Natural Keyboard
  (On the way) 120 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
  Fedora 14
Laptop:

   ~2007 Core2Duo 15" MBP
Phone:

  HTC Incredible w/ Android 2.2
VPS:

  512 MB prgmr.com instance running Ubuntu server
My favorite software:

  zsh
  tmux
  xmonad
  irssi
  (mac)vim
  git
  google chrome
  gmail, google docs, google reader
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Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by tpz »

PStamatiou wrote: post #77
jackolas wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can save those terminal things as a Terminal window set (and make it the default on launch) If you set the right terminal profiles with the right start commands then open them in a window, hen you go into Window -> create window group...

I tried that a bunch but couldn't get it to work the way I wanted for some reason. Then I tinkered with iTerm scripting, but I prefer Terminal so I ended up with my current AS + Automator combo.

The tool you mentioned forgetting in your original list is almost surely Terminitor: https://github.com/achiu/terminitor

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by PStamatiou »

PStamatiou wrote: post #77
jackolas wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can save those terminal things as a Terminal window set (and make it the default on launch) If you set the right terminal profiles with the right start commands then open them in a window, hen you go into Window -> create window group...

I tried that a bunch but couldn't get it to work the way I wanted for some reason. Then I tinkered with iTerm scripting, but I prefer Terminal so I ended up with my current AS + Automator combo.

tpz - you are correct, it's terminitor. i already had it 'watched' on github

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by jsz0 »

Desktop: Mac Pro with a pair of 23" displays. Apple compact BT keyboard + Magic Trackpad. SSD for boot/apps, 2x1TB RAID mirrors for bulk storage.

Mobile: MacBook Air.

Phone: iPhone 4 + HTC Eris (stock Froyo ROM -- HTC Sense is awful)

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by tel »

eof wrote: post #60
tel wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty close to what I'm running, except replacing emacs with vim because it plays with screen/xmonad more nicely. Some day I'll probably find a way to get a real no-nonsense screen/xmonad/emacs setup together.

With the amount of time I have spent learning and customizing vim, I can't imagine being comfortable to switch back and forth between emacs and vim

I've been running the two together for a long while with vi-mode anyway.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by tel »

jrockway wrote: post #47
tel wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty close to what I'm running, except replacing emacs with vim because it plays with screen/xmonad more nicely. Some day I'll probably find a way to get a real no-nonsense screen/xmonad/emacs setup together.

emacsclient -c on a new desktop. Done.

Not the method I was expecting, but I think it could work...

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by bretthoerner »

jrockway wrote: post #20

Most frequently used software: Debian, xmonad, emacs, rxvt-unicode, conkeror, bash, git, perl, ghc, xmms2. Gnus for email, rcirc via irssi-proxy on a remote server for irc, bitlbee (via irssi) for Google Talk and AIM. Github and Gist for collaboration. (Github is such a good tool that I pay for it, despite not needing any of the paid features! Irrational!) The idea is to reduce overhead; anything I want to do is alwa…

Very similar here, but I still use XChat. Do you use anything on irssi to give you desktop notifications? I know it's a matter of taste (some people hate interruptions) but I really need alerts when I receive IMs or a coworker brett:'s me in work IRC. (And for that matter, why not ERC?)

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by jesusabdullah »

jesusabdullah wrote: post #2

I'll start. Sorry if I don't make much sense--I'm coming down with a fever. :( Who am I?: I'm a mechanical engineering grad student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. My most interesting projects to-date are probably my thesis and an IRC bot that runs on node.js. What Hardware Am I Using?: At home, I use a used Dell Mini 9. I really like it, though it chokes on some Java apps (minecraft) and some visually intensi…

Forgot to mention: Git and irssi.
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