Bret TaylorInterview
CTO (Facebook), co-founder (FriendFeed)
Adapted from Bret Taylor's interview on Uses This, published 7 March 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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Since coming to Facebook, I have slowly transitioned to using my 13" MacBook Air (4GB memory, 256GB SSD) almost exclusively.
I use Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones to listen to music while I code at work.
Communication
I'm currently Chief Technology Officer at Facebook.
Productivity
Browser
90% of my computer use is Google Chrome and a terminal.
Coding & Development
I still boot into Linux via VMWare Fusion most days, but the convenience and size of the Air has outweighed any advantages to my keeping around a desktop over the past couple years.
I host all of the code I write on Github.
Design
I also use Adobe Photoshop daily.
Media
Storage
For backup, I switched to Dropbox, and I play whatever is available on Steam for Mac and just play fewer games now as a consequence.
Other
Before FriendFeed, I worked at Google where I created Google Maps and started Google's developer product group.
At FriendFeed, I used at custom-built desktop (4GB memory, four cores) running Ubuntu Linux for everything.
I listen to Pandora while I code.