Drew DeVault
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
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drewdevault.comBlog His blog on free software, privacy and the social effects of technology.
Recent
- AI in Linux 23 Jul 2026
- The circus freaks of open source 5 Jun 2026
- Vim Classic 8.3.0 released 2 Jun 2026
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- New blog design 20 May 2026
- Add an LLM policy for rust-lang/rust 15 May 2026
- I can't cancel GitHub Copilot 1 May 2026
- Addressing the harassment 21 Apr 2026
- Rewrote my blog with Zine 19 Apr 2026
- tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync 28 Mar 2026
- A eulogy for Vim 25 Mar 2026
- The cults of TDD and GenAI 29 Jan 2026
- Redesigning my microkernel from the ground up 12 Jan 2026
- OpenAI employees… are you okay? 8 Nov 2025
- What's up with FUTO? 22 Oct 2025
- Cloudflare bankrolls fascists 24 Sept 2025
- A better future for JavaScript that won't happen 17 Sept 2025
- Embedding Wren in Hare 20 Aug 2025
- What's new with Himitsu 0.9? 8 Aug 2025
- Just speak the truth 30 Jun 2025
- Unionize or die 9 Jun 2025
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sway Uses
My desktop environment, naturally, is sway, built fresh from the master branch daily.
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qutebrowser Uses
My shell is fish, but I'm only using that until mrsh is ready. My web browser is qutebrowser.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
Fish Uses
My shell is fish, but I'm only using that until mrsh is ready.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
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mutt Uses
My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
WeeChat Uses
My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
Vim Uses
My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
ThinkPad X200 Loved
I also travel with one of two ThinkPad X200's, which is my favorite laptop model - it still holds up after over 10 years.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
Arch Linux Uses
My workstation runs Arch Linux, but don't take that as an endorsement.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
Alpine Linux Uses
My laptops generally run Alpine Linux or 9front (you can take that as an endorsement), or MINIX or OpenBSD.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
9front Recommends
My laptops generally run Alpine Linux or 9front (you can take that as an endorsement), or MINIX or OpenBSD.
usesthis.com 2019-01-17
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- AI in Linux 23 Jul
- The circus freaks of open source 5 Jun
- Vim Classic 8.3.0 released 2 Jun
- New blog design 20 May
- Add an LLM policy for rust-lang/rust 15 May
- I can't cancel GitHub Copilot 1 May
Show 19 more
- Addressing the harassment 21 Apr
- Rewrote my blog with Zine 19 Apr
- tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync 28 Mar
- A eulogy for Vim 25 Mar
- The cults of TDD and GenAI 29 Jan
- Redesigning my microkernel from the ground up 12 Jan
- OpenAI employees… are you okay? 8 Nov 2025
- What's up with FUTO? 22 Oct 2025
- Cloudflare bankrolls fascists 24 Sept 2025
- 9front 17 Jan 2019 Recommends
- Alpine Linux 17 Jan 2019 Uses
- Arch Linux 17 Jan 2019 Uses
- ThinkPad X200 17 Jan 2019 Loved
- Vim 17 Jan 2019 Uses
- WeeChat 17 Jan 2019 Uses
- mutt 17 Jan 2019 Uses
- Fish 17 Jan 2019 Uses
- qutebrowser 17 Jan 2019 Uses
- sway 17 Jan 2019 Usestheir own