Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.