Aaron SwartzInterview
Hacker, activist
Adapted from Aaron Swartz's interview on Uses This, published 6 December 2009. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I just bought a new bottom-of-the-line MacBook Pro.
The one peripheral I use on a regular basis are my 1993 AppleDesign Powered Speakers .
I also have a Samsung ML-1630 printer which looks great and works quite well.
Both the speakers and the printer get plugged into an AirPort Express.
Herman Miller (somewhat puzzlingly) sent me a free Embody chair to review.
I've tried several times to put my computer on a large book and then use an Apple Wireless Keyboard to type, but I never can make the habit stick.
But my main computing device is an Android G1.
Communication
All my editing is done in MPW 9 and Markdown.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
OmniOutliner (todo list / notes -- I turn all the features off and just have one big outline with everything)
Coding & Development
TextMate (writing, both code and prose)
Terminal (with option left/right-arrow properly bound!)
Instead of keeping code on my computer, I've now been keeping it on my server using Transmit.
I tend to use lighttpd for my web server.
I use PostgreSQL for my database.
I do revision management with Git.