Bertrand FanInterview
Engineer (Slack)
Adapted from Bertrand Fan's interview on Uses This, published 21 February 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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My favorite pen is the Pilot Hi-Tec-C Cavalier, which unfortunately has been discontinued by Pilot Japan.
I have two MacBook Pros, one for work (15-inch, Mid 2015) and one for personal use (15-inch with Touch Bar, Space Grey, 2016).
If I'm at a desk, I use WASD v2 TKL keyboards.
I recently acquired a 5x6 Macropad that runs off a Teensy that I use as an emoji keyboard.
I also sometimes use a modified M0100 because I think its funny, but the lack of a right mouse button prohibits me from using it regularly.
I dabble in cryptocurrency but am fairly paranoid so I store the majority of my funds in a Ledger Nano S hardware wallet.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System+ 6 others
I collect old videogame systems, but my favorite console is the SNES.
Communication
I'm Bertrand Fan, an engineer on the Platform team at Slack.
I spend a lot of time in Slack, either in the Mac app or the iOS client.
Productivity
Browser
Google Chrome is the only browser I use, for both browsing and development.
Security
Coding & Development
I'll probably buy an Oculus Go when it comes out.
I use Sublime Text to write code.
I use iTerm2 as my terminal app.
Homebrew is one of the first things I install on any OS X computer because it has so many packages that I depend on.
Design
Media
For diffs and merging, I use Kaleidoscope.
Storage
Other
OS X is my primary operating system.
Moom is one of my favorite apps for controlling my window sizes and position.