Ben KamensInterview
Lead developer (The Khan Academy)
Adapted from Ben Kamens's interview on Uses This, published 30 May 2011. 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'm on one of those first-unibody-model MacBooks that came out a couple years ago and lives in no-man's land between a standard MacBook and a MacBook Pro.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
Vico's missing a few too many features for me to make the switch just yet, but it looks really promising.
Media
If I were threatened with a gun and told to only keep one app that I currently use, I'd sacrifice all of the above to save Netflix and its ability to stream Arrested Development.
Other
MacVim's not far behind, which I use for both development and any random writing.
When it comes time to code, these days I have the App Engine Python SDK running with Chrome open and its Developer Tools expanded.