Alex PayneInterview
API developer (Twitter)
Adapted from Alex Payne's interview on Uses This, published 2 January 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
I have a 15" MacBook Pro, one of the final revisions before the current black-bordered unibody design.
I have a ReadyNAS NV+ at home with about 750 GB of expandable RAID storage.
I always have my original (pre-3G) 8 GB iPhone with me.
Communication
I work at Twitter in San Francisco as their API Lead.
Productivity
I keep a big library of PDFs (academic papers, presentations, books, &c.) in Yep.
Browser
Notes
I've recently started journaling, and I use MacJournal for that.
We use Trac for ticketing internally, but I keep API-related tickets public on Google Code.
Coding & Development
In my free time, I'm working on a book about the Scala programming language.
I write Scala and Ruby code in TextMate, run tests and such in Terminal, and answer hell of email with Gmail.
Design
Speaking of focus, I use Isolator to get distractions out of the way.
Media
I've taken to storing sensitive files in encrypted disk images managed by Knox.
Storage
Most of the disk goes to store media that I'd flip out if I lost, and the rest goes to Time Machine backups.
I've also started backing up essential files with Backblaze.
Other
I keep tabs on my machine with iStat pro.