app defaults in late 2023

content/post/2023/11/app-defaults-in-late-2023.md

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+---
+title: "App Defaults In Late 2023"
+date: 2023-11-14T10:00:00+01:00
+categories:
+  - software
+tags:
+  - lists
+---
+
+Everyone's doing these [app defaults](https://defaults.rknight.me/) lists lately. Since they're [lists](/tags/lists) and I happen to like lists, I guess I'll chime in, even though I don't think these blog posts add much value for others. Instead, they could be interesting to look back to for myself in a far future? Here goes.
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+- **Backup system**: [Restic](/post/2023/03/verify-your-backup-strategy/) synced to the NAS with my own system-tray wrapper.
+- **Bookmarks and _Read It Later_ systems**: I paste links that interest me into [Alfred](https://www.alfredapp.com/) that has a workflow to Obsidian. To be honest, most interesting stuff is just jotted down on paper. I have almost no "read it later" backlog. 
+- **Browser**: Firefox.
+- **Calendar and contacts**: Self-hosted [Radicale](https://radicale.org/v3.html) CalDAV/CardDAV.
+- **Chat**: Signal with literally four people willing to do so, everything else's still WhatsApp.
+- **Cloud File Storage**: lol, good one. 
+- **Coding environment**: For light and quick scripting, Sublime Text. Otherwise, any of the dedicated tools from the JetBrains folks.
+- **Image editor**: [ImageMagick](https://imagemagick.org/) and occasionally GIMP. 
+- **Mail**: Apple Mail for macOS for `brainbaking`---hosted by Mailbox.org after [being fed up with ProtonMail](/post/2023/01/goodbye-protonmail/)---and unfortunately Microsoft Outlook for work. I don't want to mix these, and the latter is an Exchange server. I don't have a mail client on my smartphone and neither should you.
+- **Music**: Self-hosted [Navidrome](/post/2022/03/how-to-stream-your-own-music-reprise/) + Substreamer Android app.
+- **News**: I try to avoid these but out of boredom regularly fail to do so. 
+- **Notes**: Primarily [fountain pen and paper](/tags/journaling/)---this includes todo lists---mixed with digital notes in Obsidian.
+- **Password Management**: KeePassXC.
+- **Photo Management**: Self-hosted [PhotoPrism](https://www.photoprism.app/), although we have difficulties finding stuff once the photos are poured into this system. I'd like something even simpler. 
+- **Podcasts**: I just press play in the browser? Subscribing goes via RSS.
+- **Presentations**: Hugo + [RevealJS](https://revealjs.com/).
+- **RSS**: [NetNewsWire](https://netnewswire.com/).
+- **Shopping Lists**: What's wrong with recycling a piece of paper?
+- **Spreadsheets**: For student grading, Google Sheets or Excel if I have to share it with colleagues. 
+- **Text Editor**: I'm typing this Markdown post in Sublime Text. 
+- **Word Processing**: lol, another good one. For my writing, I use [Markdown + Pandoc + LaTeX](/post/2021/02/writing-academic-papers-in-markdown/).
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+Conclusion: I have a preference for simple analog and self-hosted tools.
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content/post/2023/11/in-academia-we-write-throwaway-code.md

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 This again touches upon a lot of philosophically oriented programming questions I've been struggling with during my career as a software engineer:
 
 - [When is it appropriate not to unit test?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/66480/when-is-it-appropriate-to-not-unit-test)
-- Is it fine not to unit test prototypes? [In an SE-Radio episode Kent Beck says yes](http://www.se-radio.net/2010/09/episode-167-the-history-of-junit-and-the-future-of-testing-with-kent-beck/).
+- Is it fine not to unit tests for prototypes? [In an SE-Radio episode Kent Beck says yes](http://www.se-radio.net/2010/09/episode-167-the-history-of-junit-and-the-future-of-testing-with-kent-beck/).
 - Should you unit test R? [Some data scientists do it](https://towardsdatascience.com/unit-testing-in-r-68ab9cc8d211), (most) others don't. ([I Pity The Fool Who Doesn't Write Unit Tests](https://blog.codinghorror.com/i-pity-the-fool-who-doesnt-write-unit-tests/)!)
 - Most agree that [writing tests for one-time scripts](https://www.quora.com/As-a-software-engineer-would-you-add-unit-tests-for-one-time-scripts) is unnecessary. Except that these "one-timers" might become "multiple-timers", and retroactively injecting quality becomes next to impossible...