# Personal Computing

A younger me used to be an advocate of the
free software movement (still a fan), I even
used the legendary Lemote Yeeloong 8101B laptop
for some time. But have long since surrendered
to the convenience in Apple Inc products.

## setup
I try to keep my system setup as clean as
possible from applications & plugins. I'm fine
with the default terminal app on Mac OS, I also
don't prefer a specific shell. Running a clean
install of VS Code and trying to move away from
Chrome amid privacy concerns.

Keeping your setup minimal also helps a lot when
starting fresh. I used to keep my SSH key on a
physical card, but that was always a pain configuring
it to work on a new system. So I stopped doing that.

## open source
Years ago I used to contribute to open source
projects, mostly to libraries around GitHub´s
electron project.

Probably helped me get a job or two in the past.
Nowadays I hardly find the motivation to contribute
while working full-time.

## languages
A lot of developers gets personal about programming
languages, I don't. I code mostly in JavaScript,
for convenience, since it can be easily utilized in
a lot of different use cases.

Does JavaScript have drawbacks? Probably.

Anyway, I like to keep the `Unix Philosophy' in the
back of my mind when thinking around software.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy