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@romanzolotarev asked two great questions last week. The first was on which stack we use:

1. BSD, sh, vi 🐡😈
2. Linux, Bash, Vim 🐧
3. something else (reply)

I use 1 and 2 professionally, no prizes for guessing which I prefer. I stopped preinstalling Vim on BSD servers and use stock nvi and sh. My workstations have other combinations:

• Work laptop and personal Mac: macOS, ksh, Vim
• Work bhyve box: FreeBSD, ksh, nvi
• Personal laptop and tower: FreeBSD, ksh, Vim
• Personal tinkering VM and vintage boxes: NetBSD, ksh, nvi

And on keyboards, the options were:

1. built-in, stock keyboard
2. external, upgraded
3. I don’t use a keyboard

I’m on call most times, and like working from coffee shops, so I use 1. It’s difficult with the godawful Mac butterfly keyboards, so thesedays I blog with a tiny Panasonic Let’s Note. At desks I do 2 using:

• Work: KBtalKing with Cherry MX Browns
• Home: Leopold FC660 with Topres, the world’s greatest switches.