@plexus files and directories

@plexus definitely IRC, but CGI and SQLite make very strong contenders too

@plexus good wired headphones

@plexus I almost always have a pocket calculator within reach. And I don't even need to use them that much.

@plexus my nice fountain pen that I use for taking notes in class while everyone else sits there with an iPad or laptop

@plexus is the bicycle too obvious an answer?

@plexus my homelab is powered by a single python script that basically reimplements rsync over ssh and can trigger commands on changes to specific paths (like, /etc/nginx.conf changed => docker restart nginx)

It's like... 10% of ansible I guess? But whenever I describe this to people they're like "have you considered kubernetes?" and it's well under 10% of the complexity of *that*

@plexus putting my physical MIT ID card on the back of my phone instead of using my phone's NFC for whenever I need to scan my ID.

@plexus my gloriously dumb Mondaine swiss railway watch. Does 2 things well, looks amazing, can be read without my glasses

@plexus Mechanical watches.

@plexus Monolith architecture.

@plexus Lisp

@plexus Email.

I promise that's the last one! 😀

@plexus I like a bicycle. It's like a car for short distances and is 1% as complicated

@plexus Ethernet.

@plexus paper and pencil. Very effective communication technology.

@plexus XMPP - I had so much fun building a web client just by reading the RFCs and I would definitely use it for general real-time messaging problems

@plexus Thing that most obviously comes to mind is my reMarkable 2 E-ink tablet. Beautiful hardware, but also just quiet and inert and so seems much more transparent in my working process than an iPad.

@plexus the headphone jack.

@plexus Bikes.

@plexus pen and paper

@plexus French Press.
Especially fond of Jetboils camping version, because it just doubles as a normal cooking pot.
But at home, the only insulated stainless steel Bodum just beats everything in useability, durability.

@plexus Ansible, if it counts (I guess by modern standards there are 10x and 100x tools that do the same)

@plexus Syncthing, definitely 10x simpler than e.g. Dropbox

@plexus Sublime Text, if you compare it to VS Code