How many years have you been making the tedious stretch for Ctrl and Esc keys? Maybe you’ve gone so far as choosing workflows that don’t require them much, maybe without even realizing it. That would be sad. You just can’t use vim or emacs (or even web browsers) without them.* I stopped the stretching a [...]
Like many other hackers who sit in wonky chairs for 12+ hours every day, I have a bit of a “back problem”. And of course I’m an optimizer, AKA cheapskate (which surely contributes to the problem). Even so, I still end up dropping 50 bucks each month on chiropractic visits. How can I optimize that?! [...]
I just bought a brand new highly juiced Lenovo R61 laptop for $760. This post documents my selection criteria, and I hope it will help you with your next purchasing decision. Some guys over at Hacker News were recently discussing laptop criteria, so I figured I would add mine here. Some people really care about [...]