Uses
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This is a listing of all the things that I use on a daily basis to build data pipelines, lead my team, and build this website.

Date: November 20, 2021

This is a listing of all the things that I use on a daily basis to build data pipelines, lead my team, and build this website.

older editions
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Installation
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Everything installed on my machines is done through ansible-playbooks. It’s been a long transformation to get here, but its so satisfying to boot a brand new system, run a single command a have every single thing cofigured exactly to my liking.

```
# GET is available by default on Ubuntu
GET waylonwalker.com/bootstrap | bash

# For debian based systems without GET by default
sudo apt install curl
curl -F https://waylonwalker.com/bootstrap | bash
```

OS
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I run Ubuntu, it works well for me without too much fuss. For me the distribution does not really matter too much, I’m more interested in what’s inside.

Window Manager
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I use awesome wm. Awesome is a tiling window manager that alows me to navigate through 9 workspaces (technically called tags in awesomewm). I can script out certain applications to open in a certain tag, move it to different tags, and join tags super easy. I really dont see myself going back to a floating window manager where you have to place all your windows with the mouse by hand. This is probably one of the biggest selling points for me to move to a Linux desktop.

Terminal
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### gnome-terminal

For the longest time I just used gnome-terminal <https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/stable/>. It works, for the most part it gets out of the way and lets me do what I want. I just want a terminal that runs tmux properly, runs without titltbars or scrollbars, and lets me theme it without much effort.

### kitty

Kitty <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/> is my main terminal, these days, it’s nice, its easy to configure how I want it, but most of its fancier features do not work inside of tmux. It does render incredibly fast, If I accidently cat out a massive file, it typically just handles it, compared to other terminals that will be printing for 30s or so.

### Windows Terminal

When I am on a windows terminal I use the new Terminal <https://github.com/microsoft/terminal>. It’s a massive improvement over any other terminal that I have ever tired on windows. Text looks good, the built in themese look good, I use the One-Half-Dark Theme, and the built in Cascadia Code font. Also things like system clipboards, copy, and paste just seem to work better, and integrate well with wsl.

Image: My Windows Terminal from may 2022 <https://images.waylonwalker.com/Windows-Terminal-0522.webp>

Shell
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The shell is the interpreter that interprets the commands that you send to it from the command line, unlike the terminal that displays the text.

### zsh

I use zsh <https://www.zsh.org/> as my shell of choice. I don’t run oh-my-zsh, I just need a few plugins for things like autosuggestions <https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions> syntax-highlighting <https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting> history-substring-search <https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search>.

Tmux
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Text Editor
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Presentation / Slides
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Video Recording / Streaming
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Video Editing
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pager
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Image Editor
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Virtual Environments
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node
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Desk
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Monitor
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Keyboard
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Desktop PC
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Keyboard
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Microphone
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Audio Interface
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Headphones
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Chair
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