Allison ParrishInterview
Poet, programmer, professor, game designer
Adapted from Allison Parrish's interview on Uses This, published 26 September 2018. 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 have a 13-inch, mid 2013 MacBook Air and it is the only computer I have ever really loved.
The only other hardware that I use is an original-issue Korg nanoKONTROL MIDI controller, which is perfect when I have poetry experiments or performances that require sliders and knobs.
Productivity
I spend a lot of time in Keynote and I don't really like it.
This doesn't really fit into either the "software" or the "hardware" category, but I recently got fed up with Google Calendar and started using a pen-and-paper planner instead.
Browser
Most of my RAM and CPU gets funneled into Firefox.
Notes
Coding & Development
Other
A few months ago at Practice (a game design conference hosted at NYU), Joseph White made and delivered his presentation about PICO-8 in PICO-8 and it was amazing - not because it was gimmicky, but because it was suited to the presentation itself and because Joseph clearly had the level of mastery over the software that made using it the obvious and necessary choice.