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+I work on a computer all day. I do things from query databases, making
+a lot of HTTP API calls, parsing, transforming and generally munging
+structured and unstructured data of all kinds. I edit and compile
+code. I remote into servers and automate a lot of my daily tasks. I
+take, organize, search and refine notes.
+
+I prefer terminal-based tools because I can use them on any of my
+machines remotely without much hassle. I also find that I'm just more
+efficient with text-input and keyboard driven interactions, especially
+if modal editing is available.
+
+Fortunately for me we're the golden age of terminal-based tools, IMHO.
+
+Anyway, with all that said, I present the long list of tools I use daily and why I like them:
+
+** Arch Linux
+I won't go into too much detail here. Rolling release, Arch Wiki and
+AUR. I run Arch with ZFS on 4 machines. My desktop install is over 10
+years old at this point. I rarely encounter any sort of bleeding edge
+breakage that people seem to think is common with Arch.
+** KDE Plasma
+It has just enough shortcuts for window management that I can do 90%
+of what I would do with tiling WMs like i3 and Sway and I prefer not
+having to spend time configuring one of the various i3bar-etc
+applications to get the system tray and all that working right.
+
+KDE just works, it looks nice and lets me configure it as much as I want.
+
+I do find myself WM/DE-curious and I try other things from time to
+time. [[https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM][PaperWM]] is on my short list to try out.
+
+** Emacs
+Won't elaborate here much either - I like Emacs mostly because of Evil
+mode and Org mode but there is a long-tail of other packages and
+configurability that also make me prefer it over Vim or Neovim.
+
+I still use Neovim for quick one-off edits from time to time but 90%
+of my day is spent in Emacs.
+
+I think newer editors like Helix are interesting, but without full Org
+mode support I couldn't imagine switching.
+
+** Nushell
+[[https://www.nushell.sh/][Nushell]] is a modern shell written in Rust with first class support for
+structured data, syntax and semantics that draw a nice balance between
+reasonable programming language and an ergonomic shell UX.
+
+I find myself being willing to automate more complex tasks using
+Nushell than I would with Z shell or Bash.
+
+** VisiData
+[[https://www.visidata.org/][VisiData]] is a nice terminal spreadsheet and CSV tool. I don't have to
+_create_ a lot of spreadsheets but I do have to find data in them and
+CSVs often enough, for work, that having something that fits my normal
+workflow here is really nice.
+
+While I don't think VisiData will write to XLSX files, it will let you
+edit sheets and save them as CSV or TSV.
+
+This tool was the initial motivation for writing this post.
+
+** Konsole
+Nothing super interesting to say about it. It just works.
+
+All the modern terminals are nice, I like WezTerm, Alacritty and
+Kitty. I switch between them for one reason or another at different
+times, but I currently have Konsole bound to my terminal shortcut in
+KDE so it's my terminal of choice.
+** TODO Unison
+** Firefox
+There's not a whole lot, I think, that differentiates the browsers from one another these days
+** Chrome Emacs
+[[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-emacs/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search][Chrome Emacs]] is both a Chrome and Firefox extension that lets you
+pretty seamlessly edit text areas in your browser from within
+Emacs. Since I find myself [[#/job-description/][writing a lot at work]] these days, it's nice
+to be able to edit story details in [[https://www.shorcut.com][Shortcut]] from Emacs with nice
+modal editing.
+
+** TODO Syncthing