lolspongo

The recent batch of Jira clones all seem to be missing a feature that was one of the few things that made me choose Jira in the first place: BPM style workflows with phase-specific data capture and actions / transitions.

Trello / Kanban / Agile style 'project management', gnatt / burndown charts and velocity etc. are nice for day to day views for people working at the coal-face and the never-ending war of attrition.

But a lot of the competing tools are not as elegant when it comes to modeling interlinked cross-team processes end-to-end.

I recently went with 32bit OpenBSD and Alpine Linux while revamping a small collection of Atom & Pentium M netbooks (the Toshiba Portege was as thin/light as the Macbook Air) after replacing the spinny disks for SSDs.

Alpine is great because you can keep your home dirs, some configuration & packages etc. on an encrypted thumb drive that can be swapped between computers.

It's like an author using an old typewriter to focus, can't use Chrome (too slow) but NetSurf is great for occasional HN and reference material browsing.

All I really need is a shell, Vim, i3, Python and a compiler... reminds me of the Minix days - just you, an editor and a C compiler without any distractions.