my equipment

Here I document a lot of the hardware and software that I regularly use. These items form the material context of my computational niche.

hardware

• laptop: ThinkPad T490s
  specs

  Intel Core i7-8665U (4 cores, 8 threads), 32 GB ram, 1 TB nvme disk
• desktop: Dell OptiPlex 7010
  specs

  Intel Core i5-3470 (4 cores, 4 threads), 16 GB ram, 512 GB ssd
  • keyboard: Vortex Vibe, blue switches
  • mouse: Logitech MX Master 3

the interface with my wetware

• utterly embedded in the vim keybindings hole
• keyboard layout: dvorak, caps:escape
• fonts:
  • monospace: Iosevka (stylistic set 15)
  • sans-serif: Inter or Helvetica
  • serif: Times New Roman, am a sucker for Computer Modern in latex-typeset documents.
  • pixel fonts: between sun12x22.psfu and cream12.uf2

software

• distribution: arch linux
• display manager: ly
• window manager: hikari, a Wayland compositor
• information bar: tid (my own creation)
• aur helper: paru
• terminal: alacritty
• shell: fish
• editor: neovim
• browser: firefox with ublock origin and vimium c
• search engine: duckduckgo
• pdf reader: zathura with mupdf
• rss reader: yarr
• diff viewer: delta
• system monitor: btop
• xvg graph viewer: phrace (my own weird thing too)
• image viewer: imv
• finding shit: ripgrep
• document processor: pandoc
• static site generator: zola
• git forge: sourcehut and the hut cli for publishing to sourcehut pages
• music player: mpd and mpc
• email client: aerc
• mastodon client: phanpy, a web client