Chad FowlerInterview
Programmer, musician, author, speaker
Adapted from Chad Fowler's interview on Uses This, published 31 January 2013. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
Lately, my wife and I have started carrying an Apple TV for long trips as well.
For music I play a Yamaha Custom Alto Saxophone from the early 90s.
For music recording and the rare podcast interview, I use a MOTU Ultralite.
Communication
I use Adium for instant messaging, which means if I'm not on a Mac you can't talk to me (unless you are in the same room as me).
I should probably just use Google Talk for everything, but I'm still hanging onto this old AIM account for nostalgia's sake.
Productivity
Coding & Development
For editing text, I use vim.
This week I tried to use Eclipse again for Scala development.
Media
Increasingly, I've been using Vimeo for watching videos.
For recording sound, I use Logic on the Mac.
Storage
in Wunderlist, which I can run on every one of the ridiculous array of hardware devices I mentioned before.
Other
The last important piece of software I use is Counter-Strike.