--- title: "Mohammed Ismail Ansari (@myTerminal) | Hashnode" description: "Computer & Technology Enthusiast. Read the latest articles by Mohammed Ismail Ansari on Hashnode." url: "https://hashnode.com/@myTerminal" --- @myTerminal # Mohammed Ismail Ansari @myTerminal · Lake Villa, IL · Joined February 2019 Computer & Technology Enthusiast [Website](https://myterminal.me/) ## Comments [I know. I was very reluctant to go with Google once again, but the amount of features Gmail provides is almost incomparable. Besides, this was just the first of my two planned activities with my email accounts (I realized it as soon as I was close to settling with Gmail once more), I have rough plans to totally move to a "secure" email provider and have already tried Tutanota and Proton mail, but will stay with Google for at least a few more months as I have a lot of other big things lined up in the pipeline. Thanks for your pointer around Mailfence, will give it a look and add it to the list of candidates when I migrate my email.](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-i-unified-my-email-accounts-in-2019/5d2b84428a421c7a327964e6/comment/5faa8f761ef56b5545aafaa5#reply-5faabbeb621a1f57a3d06729) Reply · Article · Nov 10, 2020 · [How I unified my email accounts in 2019](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-i-unified-my-email-accounts-in-2019/5d2b84428a421c7a327964e6) [That is true. I wish I could have a setup like that. Given the number of email services I have created a dependency on all these years, I don't see an easy way to combining all into one at least without losing contact with services and people who may still be only aware of my abandoned accounts. Even with my current setup where everything is accessible from a single login, the final result is that all spam, notifications and important emails end up in the same inbox, which I have no solution for yet. It is still a struggle to keep the inbox conversations list as low as possible so that I do not miss anything important. Having said that, it is still way better than what it was before :)](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-i-unified-my-email-accounts-in-2019/5d2b84428a421c7a327964e6/comment/5d2b8ae1b6ae5ba7593871c0#reply-5d2b8e42b6ae5ba7593871c9) Reply · Article · Jul 14, 2019 · [How I unified my email accounts in 2019](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-i-unified-my-email-accounts-in-2019/5d2b84428a421c7a327964e6) [I got my first (pre-owned) PC back when I was twelve (the year 1999) when computers (as I imagined) were just gaming machines to me. I was surprised when I learned that an audio disc could be played in it, the very first day the machine arrived at my home. It was an 80486 running Windows 95 (with a hidden Windows 3.1 as a dual boot configuration), 2GBs of hard-drive space, maybe about 32MBs of memory (I do not remember). All peripherals including the keyboard, mouse, monitor (15" CRT Samtron color monitor) and speakers (from Basso) were white in color, which used to be a thing back then in the late 90s. There were two floppy disk drives: 3.5" and 5.25", configured as drive A and B respectively so I never had a question about hard-disk drives starting from letter 'C'. Almost every single software used to ask for a Pentium processor to run properly. I believe, I missed so much of fun older people must have had, being born in the 80s and finally getting to touch a computer for the first time in the late 90s, just before the Y2K was about to take over the entire planet.](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/whats-the-first-computer-you-ever-used/comment/5cfa25f2cbea5a523c6add9c#reply-5cfadad11aabc1b4419b9243) Reply · Thread · Jun 7, 2019 · [What's the first computer you ever used?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/whats-the-first-computer-you-ever-used) [Short answer: 12 Reasons why I spend time on open-source software :)](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/why-open-source-is-super-important-for-a-developer/comment/5cb5e4055d6e9c583408a50f) Comment · Thread · Apr 16, 2019 · [Why Open Source is Super Important for a developer?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/why-open-source-is-super-important-for-a-developer) [Though I'm currently using MacOS on my personal workstation and Windows 10 at work (do not have a control on it), I still have a Fedora VM setup on my personal MacBook Pro. That's my personal choice of operating system due to it being extensible (Linux) and stable (coming from Red Hat).](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/which-os-do-you-use/comment/5c82d5eb8739c4c1546f8e8f) Comment · Thread · Mar 8, 2019 · [Which OS do you use?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/which-os-do-you-use) [As per what I have realized about myself, I never thought of coding as just a means of earning money. I do it at work, enjoy it at home at day, night and weekends. The fun (and satisfaction) that you get out of it cannot be directly measured with money (though you still need money to pay your bills and feed yourself and your dependents). If I were to ever get a chance to change my profession, I would go for it but I'd still be coding during my personal time (who knows at work as well) as my profession and my hobby just coincidentally happen to be the same. In fact, I did not originally wanted to pursue this profession. This may definitely be different for others though.](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/will-you-still-code-if-you-get-100m-usd-and-dont-have-to-work-another-day/comment/5c759e71d158716920fefa31) Comment · Thread · Feb 26, 2019 · [Will you still code if you get 100M USD and don’t have to work another day?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/will-you-still-code-if-you-get-100m-usd-and-dont-have-to-work-another-day) [Hi Fellow Hashnoders, I'm a passionate, self-motivated software developer with over nine years of professional experience and about fourteen years of overall programming experience (as of today). With a strong attention to detail, I like to program computers to do what we humans don't like to and make them do it in style. People think of me as an introverted person who is logical, organized and technically inspirational. Personally, I like to keep my things in place where they are easy to find and I treat everything coming my way with a methodical and sincere approach. In my free time, I like to write open-source software, listen to trance music, tinker with my gadgets and when time permits, play video-games. I like to put it as, "I write software in this universe, play games in the other and listen to trance music in between the two". You can visit my website, have a look at my work on GitHub or find more ways to contact me at about.me.](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/introduce-yourself-to-the-hashnode-community/comment/5c6efecb26f2abb051ae7a72) Comment · Thread · Feb 21, 2019 · [Introduce yourself to the Hashnode community! 👋](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/introduce-yourself-to-the-hashnode-community)