I've been on a freelance design gig for five weeks now. It's nice to have reliable money, but after a week or two you feel like a bedouin, being shuttled from desk to desk and Mac to Mac. I don't want to spend too much time tweaking System Preferences, since there's a good chance I'll have to do it all over when the regular user gets back from vacation and bumps me.
I decided to go geeky and do all my personal work in a terminal
session. Now, every morning, I ssh into my PowerBook, which
stays at home. From there, I use screen to open instances
of lynx, slrn, mutt, and
vim. That's right, this post is being written in
nano, and when I'm done, mutt will send it to
a seekrit TypePad address and posted here (I hope).
With this setup, I don't have to worry about leaving bits of personal
data on a strange PowerMac. My timesheet is part of
hftf.txt, my Huge F***ing Text File. Bloglines mobile feeds me RSS.
Good ol' Usenet has endless Kibo to read.
…and it looks like I'm typing some weird computerey stuff. Awesome.
aaaaah.. always knew you were a good ole geek at heart.. congrats!
Posted by: josh | February 24, 2006 at 08:30 PM