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Darius Kazemi

Internet artist and programmer; makes bots and small web projects as Tiny Subversions and co-founded the Feel Train studio.

6 things

Chromebook PixelHardware Google

loved

I primarily work on a Chromebook Pixel. It's a beautiful piece of hardware. Kind of this gunmetal slab that feels more substantial in my hands than a MacBook Pro, but roughly the same form factor as a 13" MacBook Air. It's got one of those super high density displays so the image is gorgeous, and a touch screen for those times when I'm just lazily scrolling my way through an article or something.

His Uses This interview, on developing bots and small web projects from a Chromebook.

2015-01-20·usesthis.com ↗

croutonSoftware

liked

So I have an Ubuntu Linux command line installed on Chrome OS. It's really easy to do using crouton. crouton even lets you run X11 and a window manager of your choice, but I don't bother with that.

His Uses This interview, on developing bots and small web projects from a Chromebook.

2015-01-20·usesthis.com ↗

Nexus 5Hardware Google

liked

I also keep a running Google Doc of every project idea that comes to mind – as such, my Nexus 5 is invaluable for jotting down notes on the fly.

His Uses This interview, on developing bots and small web projects from a Chromebook.

2015-01-20·usesthis.com ↗

VimSoftware

uses

Since everything I develop is for the web, I use Vim on the command line, and I run my development servers there too.

His Uses This interview, on developing bots and small web projects from a Chromebook.

2015-01-20·usesthis.com ↗

GruntSoftware

uses

For making my stuff I use Grunt as my task manager, and specifically I use grunt-init to scaffold my projects.

His Uses This interview, on developing bots and small web projects from a Chromebook.

2015-01-20·usesthis.com ↗

Chrome OSSoftware Google

mixed

Chrome OS, especially on a powerful machine like the Pixel, is great for web browsing and web applications, but is not so hot for anything else.

His Uses This interview, on developing bots and small web projects from a Chromebook.

2015-01-20·usesthis.com ↗

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