Adam WigginsInterview
Hacker, entrepreneur (Heroku)
Adapted from Adam Wiggins's interview on Uses This, published 19 August 2014. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
Pretty standard setup: a 13" MacBook Pro.
After six years as a die-hard iPhone user, I switched to an unlocked HTC One last year, and I so far I've stuck with it.
ATH-ANC7b QuietPoint Active+ 3 others
Audio-Technica QuietPoint noise-canceling headphones plus generated white noise via A Soft Murmur block out distraction while working.
Communication
Productivity
I keep the Dock hidden and launch applications exclusively with Alfred.
Then I paste the formatted output into Google Docs in order to collaborate with co-authors or copyeditors.
Browser
Notes
(I hope Draft or others might one day unify this workflow.)
Coding & Development
I make companies (such as Heroku) and I write (such as The Twelve-Factor App and End-user computing).
Design
For vector illustrations, like the cover of this album, I find Inkscape to be far more useable than Adobe Illustrator.
Media
These days I use Pixelmator for simple image editing because it feels so good on the Mac.
For creating music, Logic Pro is my main tool.
Audacity can't be beat for waveform editing despite not looking very pretty.
And of course, I publish to SoundCloud.
Storage
Other
My hobbies include making music and video games, and my social cause these days is ending marijuana prohibition
Kindle plus GoodReads have amped up my reading in a huge way.
Right now I'm trying to learn a new spoken language, so Anki deserves a mention.