Ooh, thanks for the tag! This is great!

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-easy-it-fudge-your-scientific-rank-meet-larry-world-s-most-cited-cat

When I read the title, I thought “Surely this Larry cannot be more cited than the famous F. D. C. Willard”. But then I read the article and it turns out that’s very specifically the record Larry broke.

I use xonsh.

I have been reading a book about them recently, so I have some feelings. On a general level, they were revolutionary socialists opposed to dictatorships like Soviet Union and China, so basically the good type of socialist if you ask me. It seems that they generally were critical of state as a concept, although I am not sure how critical exactly.

On a more specific level, their theory of spectacle is quite hard to understand for me for some reason, but I think it basically says that the society makes us passive consumers of commodities and propaganda, which seems like a reasonable criticism.

Also, reading about them has strengthened my wish to found an anarchist avant garde art collective.

Well, Python is my main programming language, so things being made with it gives me a feeling that I can understand and control them. Sometimes this feeling is even right, for example with Qtile, which is also configured with Python.

Qtile, just because it’s Python-based.

Xonsh. For basic use (running CLI programs with arguments) it works like any other shell, and for other uses it has nice Python syntax (and libraries!). For example, I like not needing a separate calculator program, as I can do maths directly in the shell with an intuitive syntax.