Software

I use Emacs for code, notes, agenda, this site, and basically for all my text editing tasks.

• My configuration. This repository is normally a couple of iterations behind what I actually use
• Main packages I use:
  • org-mode
    • org-roam
  • Ivy + swiper + counsel (previously I used Helm)
  • magit
  • Treemacs
  • Slime
  • Cider
  • intero
  • multiple cursors
  • elfeed
  • pdf-tools
  • sql-mode
  • Eglot
  • flycheck

I started registering all my expenses in 2014. hledger is a version of ledger written in Haskell. Having access at the underlying library is useful, here an article I wrote about that: Finding duplicate accounts in hledger journals.

I use github for work and for some public projects. Everyone of my projects is also in a remote repository on one of my servers. I use git-web to browse them.

Before switching to Emacs I was a heavy Vim users. I still appreciate it and it's my choice when it comes to edit text on remote systems. My configuration: https://github.com/larsen/vim-configuration.

If you want to improve your Vim skill, Practical Vim is an excellent resource.

I occasionally use R (in the integrated environment RStudio), mostly to produce graphics using ggplot2.

I love spreadsheets, in general. Or "spreadsheet computing", as I'm compelled to say. I would like to use something not-proprietary but Excel is still the best in the category.

I tend to be drowning in tabs, especially when I need to keep different pages of the same webapp, and the favicon can't help anymore. Quick Tabs is very useful in these situations.

Always on, on a remote system to which I connect to via ssh. Sometimes I think about using something like znc to integrate IRC in Emacs but I guess the benefits aren't worth the time.

Hakyll is a static site generator written in Haskell. Used to power the blog section of my site.

I now use different tools for writing, but Nisus Writer is worth mentioning because it's the product I used, back in 2008, for my largest writing project so far: Pocket Perl.

I am one of those guys that practically live in a shell. After a long time spent in Terminal.app I found this. It has many additional features that make life simpler or even nicer (badges, shell integration, …).

I occasionally give presentations. I was very fond of MagicPoint back when I was using Linux, but when I switched to Mac OS X I didn't think the X11 dependancy was convenient. Keynote takes a totally different approach but is good enough.

I'd love to use a tiling window manager (i3 or xmonad, probably), but I'm on a Mac so the best I could find is this utility.

I'm currently using Time Machine for backups. It certainly works well, but as I'm considering the opportunity of switching back to Linux, I should devise a new way to do backups.