Alan Henry, editor in chief of Lifehacker, shares his favorite tools

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/12/13/alan-henry-editor-in-chief-of.html

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[futnuh]

I too am a recovered physicist. It took 20 years but I can finally no longer derive the partition function for a 2-dimensional Ising model. Parents, keep your kids away from ideal gasses, frictionless surfaces and point masses: these are gateway constructs to a world of pain.

[Marktech]

I’ve got the UK version of that keyboard, and it’s great. But because I have no co-workers to annoy, I go clicky blue.

My wife got me such a dorky gift for it:

[stinkinbadgers]

What does that key do? Bring up a hologram of Linus Torvalds?

[dave_b]

Yeah this one lets you know what he thinks of your work.

[Ignatius]

@Marktech

But because I have no co-workers to annoy, I go clicky blue.

You can have co-workers and an obnoxiously loud keyboard. I put the sound dampening rings in mine but I went about a year before I installed those.

[popobawa4u]

Bring the noise! Only thing better than hearing my buckling-spring keyboard is to hear a whole chorus of them.