Developer, FOSS enthusiast, & avid GNU Emacs user. My public key
I try not to be biased with any programming language or technology. I work on GNU/Linux and Free & Open Source Software for living. If you are passionate about GNU and Free Software like me, I encourage you to watch this YouTube video by Benjamin Mako Hill.
My current system is Lenovo G505s with AMD A8 Quad-core processor and 8 Gigs of RAM running Slackware 14.1(I always prefer latest kernel. I usually work on this system.
My other system includes Acer emachines eM350 netbook running
Manjaro Linux an independently developed Arch Linux. I’ve Awesome
window manager on it. I use it as a hotspot using hotspotd. I also
have an old desktop with AMD Athlon with 2 Gigs of RAM running
Slackware again!. The system’s storage is shared via NFS across my
home network, basically this is my NFS server.
Apart from this I had a very old Intel Pentium II Machine with
350MHz processor and 64MB of RAM running Vector Linux. I wonder
how this machine still runs?
Most of my home network and Internet connection is managed by
D-LINK DIR-615E wireless router flashed with custom
OpenWRT(barrier-breaker). This is my backup(and tiny) Linux system
with minimal shell and opkg package manager.
For work, I have Lenovo Thinkpad T440p running Fedora.
GNU Emacs and a terminal are the least I need.
I prefer to use latest Emacs version. My Emacs is heavily
configured for all my needs from programming(Python, Django, C,
elisp, Ruby, shell etc.), blogs & note taking(org-mode), eshell,
tramp, magit etc. Recently I fell in love with M-x
emacs-timemachine. Terminal is occasionally needed to keep some
front-end jobs running.
Git is something I can’t live without. I use Git to keep track of
my personal notes, blogs, and all the projects. magit is a
savior. It helps me a lot to learn insights of Git.
I prefer Gnus over mutt to manage mails.
I find programming in elisp relaxing when I’m bored with Python
and friends. Though not much but I do write helper functions and
share it on sachin.pythonanywhere.com.
For raw/old posts please visit blog-posts. Most of them are written
in org-mode. I now use jekyll to publish my blogs(Source here).
Jekyll uses markdown which I don’t like much. I miss org-mode to
post blogs. This website is entirely published using org-mode.
All my presentation slides are pushed to https://github.com/psachin/slides. With few exceptions(Online):
- Red Hat forum: 2016, 2017
- GNU Hackers Meeting-2016: Manage GNU Emacs configuration using literate programming.
- OpenStack Swift Object Storage: Session covered Swift object storage architecture and demonstrated Object versioning in Swift.
- py-starwars: Introductory talk on Python programming language.
Published on opensource.com
- How to kill a process or stop a program in Linux
- How to create LaTeX documents with Emacs
- Getting started with Emacs text editor
- GNU/Linux on Aakash: An article published in CSI communications(July 2013) on Aakash during my work at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
- Configuring Huawei-EC152 modem: My very first article appeared on linuxquestions.org. I just started using GNU/Linux that time and USB-modeswitch was also quite new.
Email: [email protected]
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