Sunday, July 22, 2018
Observing geeks
Observing geeks
Ive heard this story about Richard Stallman once that he is quite extravagant with his web surfing habits. This is the source. As we are mostly techie people its our responsibility to keep up the illusion that we do science and computer. Hear my seven tiny tips to become a seemingly overly geek developer.
iRC
Use a good old iRC client to your communication. Chose one that terminal based, like irssi. When somebody looks at you, start typing random commands, like /help, /list or /join.
Sid
Drop your neo-hippy mp3 files and listen to Sid tracks. It saves you a lot of disk space and doesnt require a high quality sound system.
Vim
Use Vim or Emacs when editing files. Dont forget to split screen and use colors. Even better if youre watching Star Wars in a split tab through telnet.
Arduino
Buy an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi board and put the empty system terminal to a large screen. Even better if you buy one of those extension kits and play with the cables and leds couple of times a day.
Hacker typer
On busy days or on the train station its common to patch or write a new unix kernel. Go to Hackertyper and do your job. Act like you think hard, and moan something about pointers.
Lynx
When you want to show a new cool site open Lynx. You can tell how proud you are that it doesnt generate that much traffic and dont download unnecessary images.
Htop
Keep one terminal open just for htop at all times. Dont forget to include htop to all your instagram pictures.
Nethack
Finally if you geek-ed yourself enough its time to play - with NetHack. Who said its not an e-sport? Ask your friends to grab a pint and watch you playing.
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Peter
