---
title: Software I Use
author: Colton Grainger
revised: 2018-07-01
---

To track software I use. I reference folks who I have based my configuration off of.

([dotfiles](https://github.com/coltongrainger/dotfiles) on github)

## in use

- debian buster

- xmonad

  > Joachim Breitner. ["Real World Haskell Applications"](https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/606-Real_World_Haskell_Applications).

- vim

  > Issa Rice. ["Vim"](https://issarice.com/vim).

- mutt/gmail

  > Matt Might. ["Productivity hints, tips, hacks and tricks for graduate students and professors"](http://matt.might.net/articles/productivity-tips-hints-hacks-tricks-for-grad-students-academics/).

- google hangouts

  > Philip Guo. ["PG Podcast - Episode 27 - Roger Peng on being a podcasting professor"](http://pgbovine.net/PG-Podcast-27-Roger-Peng.htm).

- emacs org-mode

  > Issa Rice. ["Emacs"](https://issarice.com/emacs). 

- [Oxford English Dictionary](http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/oed.shtml) :)

  > Gary Snyder. ["The Practice of the Wild" (pdf)](https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/The-Practice-of-the-Wild-by-Gary-Snyder.pdf).

- ScheduleOnce 

  > Stephanie Weirich. <https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/>.

- `git`

- deluge

- [SAGE](https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/index.html)

  > Dave Rosoff. [Sage Math Cloud is the Way and the Truth](https://github.com/daverosoff/daverosoff.github.io/blob/master/blog/_posts/2016-12-14-teaching-cplusplus-in-smc.md#sagemathcloud-is-the-way-and-the-truth).

- [jupyter notebook]()

- firefox

  - greasemonkey

    > Matt Might. ["Greasemonkey scripts for NSF's Fastlane"](http://matt.might.net/articles/greasemonkey-scripts-for-nsf-fastlane/).

- tmux

- bash

- urxvt

- jeykll

  > ["6 tips for low-cost academic blogging"](http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-blog-as-an-academic/).
  > 
  > ["Get Started With GitHub Pages (Plus Bonus Jekyll)"](https://24ways.org/2013/get-started-with-github-pages/). 

- gimp

- imagemagick

- exiftool


- audacity

- ghostscript viewer

- mupdf

- rsync

- duplicity

- gitit

## trial mode

- [tmsu](https://tmsu.org/)

- haykll

- mnemosyne

- anki

  > I tried Anki on a tip from another farm-hand at Sonnwendhof Biofarm in Baden-Württemburg.

- newsbeuter

- arbtt

- PreTeXt

  > Robert Breezer. ["PreTeXt Author's Guide"](http://mathbook.pugetsound.edu/doc/author-guide/html/pretext-author-guide.html). 

- jupyterhub/nbgrader

  > Kristen M. Thyng. [How to use JupyterHub with nbgrader](http://kristenthyng.com/blog/2016/09/07/jupyterhub+nbgrader/). 
  >
  > Carol Willing. ["Webinar: Jupyter as a Gateway for Scientific Collaboration and Education"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QipkhnBS6hw&feature=youtu.be&t=19m46s).

## old

- virtual DJ

  > I'm sworn off it.
  
## meta 

- Issa Rice's [Software](https://issarice.com/software)

- Matt Might's [uses this](https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.might/)

  > The guiding philosophy behind my setup is to make it easy to do the things
  > I should be doing, and hard to do the things I shouldn't.

- Christine Yen's [uses this](https://usesthis.com/interviews/christine.yen/) 

  > And finally, I keep my laptop stickers minimal but collect them profusely
  > on my laptop case (which, many layers ago, was a bubblewrap mailing
  > envelope)

- Gwern's [Choosing Software](https://www.gwern.net/Choosing-Software) 

- John Regehr's ["Basic Toolbox"](https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1578) includes

  - a version control system
  - a text editor
  - a graphing program
  - a presentation tool
  - an interactive debugger
  - a generic build system
  - a scripting language
  - a shell language
  - a systems language
  - a workhorse language
  - a pocket calculator