Jack ChenInterview
Software developer (Ferocia)
Adapted from Jack Chen's interview on Uses This, published 9 January 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 primary machine is a 15" MacBook Pro with the controversial TouchBar.
At work, I use a LG UltraFine 5K display with my MacBook Pro open.
Sound isolation is provided by a pair of Bose QC35s.
My headset is a SteelSeries Arctis 7.
I have a Google Home for voice control, but find the grammar for light control rather limiting.
For energy monitoring, I have a Smappee energy monitor, and I push this data into Datadog for monitoring to have alerts set up for abnormal sustained usage.
I also have a GoPro HERO5 Black for go karting and occasional snowboarding.
Communication
Tweetbot for shitposting on the bird website
Productivity
Browser
Safari for general browsing (better Accessibility support)
Notes
Security
Coding & Development
iTerm2's Semantic History -- Cmd + click a path to open it in your editor
Media
Other
I build things at Ferocia, currently building a new digital-first banking experience named Up.