Shaving

I have a Gillete Match 3 Turbo. Is a superb razor. It does a very good job of leaving my skin smooth, devoid of hair. But using it makes my skin sore and sometimes I cut myself.

I have a Wilkinson Sword Hydro 3. The cut is not as good as the Gillete. But my skin barely suffers, and I just can't cut myself.

Finally, I have a beard trimmer. Which leaves a nice stubble. And, unlike the other two, I don't need to have my face soaking wet (ideally after a shower), to reduce the chaos on my face.

I use the first one on very special occasions or when there is a requirement of formality (weddings, interviews)

I use the second one when I need to take out my beard, but is not a "big" occasion (going to a party, visiting family, ...). Also I use it if I haven't shave in a long while as a preparation, the day before, for using the first one.

I use the third one for keeping the face relatively tidy, on when I go to standard social events (a dance night or visiting friends)

As an aside, I had at some point a Wilkinson Quatro that I had to stop using because, due to the thickness of my hair, will clog up constantly (the space between the blades was just not big enough)

I have three grooming tools that I use depending on the circumstances.

And yet, on four different companies I have worked on, we had a single programming language to do everything. Disregarding what was the best tool for the job.

Visibility

Lately I've been thinking that being part of a non open source shop that, on top of that, only does internal work has a one distinctive disadvantage: I cannot show anyone what I have done and what I can do. So when it comes to look for alternative work (for example, to reduce my current conmute of 1h40m each way) the company that could hire me starts in a position in which they have only my word. And because they have only my word I have to spend time doing trivia questions and doing technical tests. And is that slow and annoying and makes me waste time.

There is Stack Overflow, increasing reputation, as a way to indicate how much you know. But it has the problem that (in my opinion), you have to be quite on top of it, following it constantly and being very active, which most of the time I just can't do. Furthermore, is fine to help other people, but I prefer to see the reputation as a byproduct of helping people and not as the goal itself of answering.

Hence, I have decided to start doing opensource at home. Still thinking how I will go about it, but definitely it will be done.