Charlie LoydInterview
Geo developer, Earth fanatic (Mapbox)
Adapted from Charlie Loyd's interview on Uses This, published 16 February 2016. 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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At work we're on small MacBook Pros with maxed-out RAM and external monitors on standing desks.
So I got the tiniest Macbook and a wee little bag.
The Everlane Twill Snap is a bit Kinfolk/VSCO but it works.
Bic Cristals are light, safe to carry loose in a bag, not blotty, and more expressive than most expensive pens.
Faber-Castell Pitts when I'm feeling zhooshy.
Communication
Text typed on my own behalf starts as Markdown.
Browser
Coding & Development
I do my coding and writing in TextMate, which looks like this.
Design
Media
It's sometimes attached to a Canon DSLR (occasionally running Magic Lantern), which has Canon non-L primes and a few toys.
Storage
Other
Most of my client side software that doesn't come with OS X is open source, for all the obvious reasons.
Lots of numpy, a library for math on n-dimensional arrays (like images).
To socket it onto our work, my teammates wrote rasterio, which moves data neatly among numpy, GDAL, and georeferenced images.