Christine YenInterview
Engineer, co-founder (Honeycomb)
Adapted from Christine Yen's interview on Uses This, published 13 September 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
My hardware needs are pretty simple: I use a 2015 15" MacBook Pro for everything.
Mouse-wise, I use an Evoluent VerticalMouse.
My monitor is an LG 34" UM95 and I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to go back to a smaller screen - I finally feel comfortable operating my laptop in clamshell mode with this much width, real estate-wise.
Communication
I've been using libpurple-based chat applications since the early 2000's but have settled on Adium these days.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
I store my life in Evernote.
Security
Coding & Development
Design
Media
Other
I'm Christine Yen, an engineer and co-founder at Honeycomb in SF.
(The unsung hero in this list is, of course, pathogen.) If a newfangled text editor doesn't have smooth split-screen support out of the box, it's dead to me.