Bob NystromInterview
Game and language developer
Adapted from Bob Nystrom's interview on Uses This, published 29 January 2015. 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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About two years ago, I updated my work laptop to an SSD MacBook Pro with a Retina display.
When I'm walking to work and back or sitting at my laptop, I usually have a pair of wonderful Phiaton PS 20 earbuds jammed into my auditory ports.
At home, I also have a 27" iMac I use for photos and that I used for doing the print layout of the book.
The illustrations in my book are hand-drawn on an old graph paper notebook I found in a closet using a Pilot Precise V5 pen.
Communication
Productivity
Coding & Development
These days, I work at Google on a programming language called Dart.
Design
I've been using Photoshop since version 2.5, before it had layers or multiple undo, so I can't imagine editing images using anything else.
I typeset the book in InDesign which (aside from general bugginess) was a really enjoyable experience.
Media
Photoshop Lightroom+ 86 others
I also use Lightroom for processing photos, but still do one last pass on them in Photoshop since I'm attached to adjusting RGB levels individually.
These days, music makes its way to me through Google Play Music All Access a wonderful service with quite possibly the world's worst brand name.
Other
My laptop has f.lux running on it which helps keep my sleep schedule happy while letting me stare at a screen twelve hours a day.