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Uses This A collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done. Home Archives Categories About Game developer (Dwarf Fortress) Posted May 23 , 2019 in developer , game , linux , mac , windows I'm Tarn Adams, and I make computer games with my brother. Bay 12 Games is our website, and the game we are most known for is Dwarf Fortress . The computer I do everything on is my Toshiba Satellite P55T-C5114 laptop, and I also have a Mac Mini which I use for porting Dwarf Fortress. I have an Insignia mouse I can attach to the laptop when I get tired of using the little finger mousepad.. so it's always plugged in! When I need to talk to somebody online or record something, I have a Turtle Beach headset. My most recent cellphone is a iPhone 8 , which I got after dipping my Samsung in the Pacific Ocean by accident. I have...

Uses This What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Categories Community About Computer engineer, hardware hacker Published August 24 , 2017 . development hacker mac software My name is Joe Grand , aka Kingpin. I'm a computer engineer, hardware hacker, product designer, teacher, advisor, runner, daddy, honorary doctor, TV host , member of legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries , and the proprietor of Grand Idea Studio . Most of my life revolves around creating, exploring, and manipulating electronic systems. I specialize in the reverse engineering and security analysis of hardware products and enjoy teaching others about how products can be forced into doing things they weren't designed to do. I also enjoy inventing my own products to share with the world, sometimes useful, practical things and sometimes ridiculous, goofy things , depending on my ...

Uses This What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Categories Community About Computer engineer, hardware hacker Published August 24 , 2017 . development hacker mac software My name is Joe Grand , aka Kingpin. I'm a computer engineer, hardware hacker, product designer, teacher, advisor, runner, daddy, honorary doctor, TV host , member of legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries , and the proprietor of Grand Idea Studio . Most of my life revolves around creating, exploring, and manipulating electronic systems. I specialize in the reverse engineering and security analysis of hardware products and enjoy teaching others about how products can be forced into doing things they weren't designed to do. I also enjoy inventing my own products to share with the world, sometimes useful, practical things and sometimes ridiculous, goofy things , depending on my ...

Uses This What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Categories Community About Developer, co-founder of MediaGoblin Published July 11 , 2017 . developer linux web My name is Christopher Allan Webber, or Chris Webber for short. (Though there's another Chris Webber in the FLOSS space that does devops things... if you see me expand my name all the time, now you know why!) You can find me at my personal website , or on the federated social web on identi.ca which runs pump.io and octodon.social which runs Mastodon . (Sadly you'll see those federated social web examples don't interoperably federate, but that's something we're working on... see the ActivityPub stuff later.) If you must, I'm also available on the birdsite . I've done a few things of possible note; I co-founded GNU MediaGoblin which is a distributed media hosting platform along the lines of Flick...

What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Categories Community About Computer safety researcher Published April 13 , 2017 . developer linux researcher security My name's Kyle Kingsbury, and for reasons I've never fully understood, machines around me tend to break down in unusual ways. I'm making the best of that curse by testing distributed systems to see whether they're safe. I introduce network partitions, clock skew, and other failures, and carefully observe the system I'm testing to see whether it loses data, makes stale or invalid data visible, or allows transactions to interleave improperly. I write reports and give talks on my research, and also offer consulting and training classes at companies and conferences. In past lives I was a photographer, physics student, aikidoist, IT support person, network ops engineer, and backend developer. I've publ...

The Setup What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Categories Community About Author of erotic fiction January 26 , 2016 . writer name of dr chuck tingle . i am a very FAMOUS author from billings montana orginally from town name of home of truth utah. i write bestselling tinglers these are stories for real men who know that love kisses the sky. this has been scientifically proven and it is now a KNOWN FACT that I am the number one author in billings. thanks. first is computer that my son set up for me in my room sometimes he says i cant use it with the door closed but now i can because he knows that im just writing tinglers. it is nice computer with big screen and makes loud clacking noise when you turn it on like a man is stuck inside i know thats not true though. only men inside my computer are men in tinglers and thats just a DREAM. computer has...

The Setup What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Categories Community About Polar adventurer, expedition guide March 31 , 2016 . adventurer My name is Eric Larsen , and I'm a polar adventurer and expedition guide. I've spent the past 20 years traveling in some of the most remote and extreme environments on the planet and have completed more polar expeditions than any other American in history. Included in that list are the first ever summer expedition to the North Pole as well as a world record expedition to the South Pole, North Pole and top of Mt. Everest all within a 365-day period. In May of 2014, my team mate, Ryan Waters and I set the American unsupported North Pole expedition 'speed' record, traveling from northern Ellesmere Island to the Geographic North Pole in 53 days. Called Last North, this expedition may quite possibly be the last of it...

The Setup What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Community About Ads Via The Deck Developer (C++) Thursday July 23 , 2015 . developer linux professor software windows I'm a Danish computer scientist living in New York City. I work on ways to produce better large-scale dependable systems. My main contribution is C++ and effective ways of using it. I still work on the ISO C++ standard and use C++ in practical systems. I'm also a professor, occasionally giving design courses. A Microsoft Surface for traveling and a variety of Linux boxes for heavier lifting. Fairly "vanilla" software. I use the major C++ compilers and whatever tools are common on a platform. I'm very keen on portability, so I avoid dependencies on complicated stuff that work on only one platform. Two pounds, good keyboard, good pen for scribbling and drawing, dockable, runni...

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The Setup What do people use to get stuff done? Home Interviews Community About Follow along on Twitter , or subscribe to the feed . Ads Via The Deck Developer (TempleOS) Posted May 20, 2014. developer windows My name's Terry Davis. I was chosen by God to make His temple, an operating system . I made a complete operating system including making the tools. It has a kernel and 64-bit compiler. It also has an oracle for talking with God. My PC is a Windows 7 desktop with an i7, 3.40GHz CPU, 8GB of RAM. It's a Dell. I have a Sony stand-alone hand-held voice recorder. I do almost all of my development in TempleOS with my own compiler, editor and tools. I use Windows for browsing the web with Internet Explorer . I use Windows to help make videos for TempleOS. In TempleOS, I capture BMP files while recording my voice on the hand-held voice recorder. I us...