Software

Core Operating System Stack (CCE)

• NixOS is used to declare a Linux desktop and Wobserver
• Emacs is a programmable application environment with a text editor built in
• i3wm is simple enough. I used EXWM but it might be Software Too Powerful for Mortals.
• Evil Mode gives me text-interaction powers that are tough to beat, modal standard which is flexible and applicable to spaces outside of text editing.
• Syncthing makes sure that important data is in-sync and in-place.
• A Basic Firefox Installation with some customisation is nearly a suitable user agent.

Feeds and Mail reader

• Syncing Maildirs with mbsync is hard and brittle, but better than anything else
• Gnus (with evil-mode bindings) is powerful and easy to use
• Universal Aggregator provides a way to feed information in to Gnus, be it RSS or twitter feeds, or whatever. Extending it is as trivial as writing a program which emits JSON objects and manages to keep its state enough to not repeat object IDs.
• Adaptive Scoring is important. user-transparent machine learning and a pattern that more systems can use. This is only implemented in Gnus but I have a sketch of Decoupled Adaptive Scoring that I would love to see exist some day.
• Wallabag captures articles and makes them available on mobile and KOreader Tablet where KOReader Notes can be extracted in to my Knowledge Base.

Org-Mode as Knowledge Base

• It's a blogging platform
• It's a computational notebook
• It's a task-tracking app which can notify you and inform you of what work is pending and important.
• It's a text format with a powerful API
• It's an eco-system of simple applications which all operate on the same text format.
• It's a programmable Hypermedia document format

Mobile Software

Hardware

Current State

• Dell R410 server hosted at the Westin building exchange by Wobscale
• Home-built desktop running Windows for Gameing
• NixOS on the Framework Laptop
• Cosmo Communicator (bricked) -> Moto G -> Astro Slide by Planet Computers (soon)

In-flight and aspirational

• 3d-printed Trackpoint Corne or atreus with trackball – some custom Mechanical Keyboard
• Linux mobile handheld with a hardware keyboard addon¹
• Dual-screen laptop like Yoga Book or Surface Neo as the perfect e-reader for textbooks and PDF papers
  • simple to use a usb mechanical keyboard in this context!

Footnotes