Ben WelshInterview
Reporter, web developer (LA Times)
Adapted from Ben Welsh's interview on Uses This, published 15 June 2012. 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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Most of the time I use my Lenovo X220 Thinkpad.
Productivity
Browser
I'll also often have a Firefox window open as well, since it's the only Linux browser my employer's Microsoft mail system seems to work with.
Coding & Development
Unlike every other developer on the planet, I actually like Ubuntu's new Unity user interface.
I write most of my code in Python.
In both cases, I find myself using the Web framework Django to manage and analyze the data, even if I don't plan on ever publishing a Web site.
For something quick and dirty, I might substitute the lighter weight SQLite.
Media
That tends to be a good spot to do music streaming from Rdio, my latest online addiction.