David Crawshaw

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• What they recommendrcmnd 9 things — each backed by an exact quote.

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  • iMac 5k Uses

    The 2014 iMac 5k I dedicate to video conferencing, mostly Hangouts and Zoom.

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  • QSFP+ 40gbit hardware Recommends

    The router and Proxmox machines are attached with some QSFP+ 40gbit hardware I got off eBay. It's fun! I highly recommend playing with second-hand network hardware.

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  • VS Code Mixed on

    Every now and again I go searching for a replacement IDE. VSCode came closer than anything else in the last two decades to replacing Vim, but somehow I am back here.

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  • Vim Uses

    For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim. Ctrl+Z for a shell.

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  • Tailscale Uses

    All the sockets between my computers are over Tailscale, so whenever I grab the laptop and leave the house, the connections to my VMs and NAS remain stable.

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  • Debian Mixed on

    Debian is a decent programming environment. It has some of the consistency properties like macOS, but fails unexpectedly.

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  • Proxmox Uses

    The Headless AMD Threadripper is running Proxmox. My main Debian environment runs as a VM here, along with various Windows test VMs,

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  • Elgato Wave 3 Uses

    Microphones are important, so I have an Elgato Wave:3 and open ear headphones.

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  • Mac OS Mixed on

    I have a lot of feelings about macOS: it is astonishingly painful for developers, but makes up for it with a consistent experience for users.

    usesthis.com 2021-06-07

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  All 9 recommendations →

• Everything, newest firstFeed Posts, repos and recommendations from the cards above, in one stream.

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  • yeah — yeah: LLM-powered yes/no CLI tool 22 Mar
  • Eight more months of agents 8 Feb
  • boldsandbox 4 Aug 2025
  • How I program with Agents 8 Jun 2025

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  • jsonfile — Persist a Go object to a JSON file 3 May 2024
  • sqlite — Go SQLite3 driver 21 Apr 2024
  • jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering 6 Feb 2024
  • new year, same plan 31 Dec 2022
  • log4j: between a rock and a hard place 11 Dec 2021
  • Software I’m thankful for 25 Nov 2021
  • rand 16 Jul 2021
  • Mac OS 7 Jun 2021 Mixed on
  • Elgato Wave 3 7 Jun 2021 Uses
  • Proxmox 7 Jun 2021 Uses
  • Debian 7 Jun 2021 Mixed on
  • Tailscale 7 Jun 2021 Usestheir own
  • Vim 7 Jun 2021 Uses
  • VS Code 7 Jun 2021 Mixed on
  • QSFP+ 40gbit hardware 7 Jun 2021 Recommends
  • iMac 5k 7 Jun 2021 Uses
  • assoc 29 Nov 2020
  • etx 29 Jun 2020
  • Remembering the LAN 28 Jan 2020
  • The asymmetry of Internet identity 29 Sept 2019
  • Zero Trust Networks 10 Sept 2019
  • Go 1.13: xerrors 28 Apr 2019
  • Fast compilers for fast programs 14 Apr 2019
  • UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 31 Oct 2018