Artyom Bologov<p>So I got my work <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/MacBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacBook</span></a> today. (Because our HR people took pity in me still using a 8GB RAM <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/ThinkPad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkPad</span></a> from 2019.) And I’m in the middle of setting it up. Things configured so far:</p><p>- <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/ed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ed</span></a> (1)<br>- <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/CommonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommonLisp</span></a> <br>- <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/VSCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VSCode</span></a> (kind of, going zero-configuration out of disgust)<br>- Minor security and privacy things, like disk encryption and password manager.</p><p>Not configured yet:<br>- <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> (trying to see how far I can get without it and how significantly my productivity will drop)<br>- Browsers (planning on going with heavily-configured Safari)<br>- Work repos</p><p>Takeaways:<br>- <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a> matters. It’s quite a superpower having my scripts run on both a Linux machine and a MacBook.<br>- I had to tweak some stuff with logical pathnames in CL and user-specific binaries (<a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a>) in shell, so that’s a bit of experience<br>- Yes, I take ed(1) with me at all times<br>- It’s fun setting up a new machine, even as restricted as an <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> one.</p>