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It's funny, I was seriously considering doing just that a day or so ago. I think I might.

As the person who runs usesthis.com, let me tell you it's a massive pain in the ass (I have a JSON file for every item I link to, and so many just... die.)

waferbabyon Ask HN: What's your dev machine setup?

Ha, really? What made it not obvious? Genuinely curious so I can improve the discoverability etc.

waferbabyon Ask HN: What's your dev machine setup?

Yeah, I guess I've made it tricky by not matching the name and the URL.

waferbabyon The Setup – Bjarne Stroustrup

And fixed.

waferbabyon The Setup – Bjarne Stroustrup

Me too, but he said he was being intentionally terse.

waferbabyon The Setup – Bjarne Stroustrup

Hah! Creator is good.

waferbabyon The Setup – Bjarne Stroustrup

Maybe I should reword it to "Developer of C++".

waferbabyon The Setup: Bjarne Stroustrup

Yep - he said that was intentional, so.

waferbabyon The Setup – what people use to get stuff done

Glad you enjoyed it!

waferbabyon The Setup – what people use to get stuff done

http://usesthis.com/interviews/windows

http://usesthis.com/interviews/linux/

http://usesthis.com/interviews/bsd/

waferbabyon The Setup – what people use to get stuff done

I've got a light-weight "API" for each interview - just append /json to an interview URL.

waferbabyon The Setup – what people use to get stuff done

I'm always open to suggestions, if you have 'em!

waferbabyon The Setup: John McAfee

It's not :)

waferbabyon The Setup: Mike Fogus

Yay! That's awesome.

waferbabyon The Setup: Mike Fogus

Yeah, I love those! Did you see the woodprint maker one?

http://david.bull.usesthis.com/

Also, feel free to suggest people!

waferbabyon The Setup: Mike Fogus

I quite like my head.

waferbabyon The Setup: Mike Fogus

Feel free to clone the site and do a version with screencasts!

waferbabyon The Setup: Mike Fogus

Hah! I'm not sure if I should be weirded out or upset over that. But you have given me an idea for April 1st.

waferbabyon Joey Hess' minimal approach

Yeah, I'm always trying to get interesting people, but I never know ahead of time what they use. Feel free to suggest more, though!

waferbabyon UsesThis: Rob Pike

Hah! Not all :)

http://usesthis.com/interviews/windows http://usesthis.com/interviews/linux

waferbabyon UsesThis: Rob Pike

Yup! Agreed.

waferbabyon UsesThis: Rob Pike

Aw, sorry about that. I guess it's a nice break from the normality, maybe? :)

waferbabyon Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done

FWIW, I have the source up for usesthis.com, if that's useful to anyone:

http://github.com/waferbaby/usesthis/

waferbabyon Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done

Hooray! I don't know if you wanted to look at the newer version of The Setup, but it's now Sinatra-based with a MySQL backend, and all the software/hardware is nicely organised. I can dump that out for you, if that'd help.

waferbabyon How I manage 40 people remotely

Do it! You can fork my site right now, if that'd help:

https://github.com/waferbaby/usesthis/

waferbabyon Joshua Topolsky's setup

'They' = me. :) I feel bad there's such a lag, but publishing three a week (and as a side project) actually ends up being a lot of work, so I've got a backlog I'm trying to work through. Frustrating, but there it is.

waferbabyon Richard Stallman's Computer Setup

That's what I thought, that it's been posted before.

waferbabyon Phil Hagelberg Uses This

For what it's worth, that's not actually intentional :)