Daniel RobbinsInterview
Software developer, creator of Gentoo
Adapted from Daniel Robbins's interview on Uses This, published 29 February 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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Hardware changes regularly but is currently a Zenoss-supplied new Core i7 MacBook Pro 15" with matte display, which I typically run hooked up to a 1920x1200 HP display when I'm working.
But the real work I do happens on a couple of Dell R710 2U rack-mountable servers, each sporting dual Xeon 5530 processors and 48GB of RAM.
For office-related ergonomic stuff, I use an Ergotron WorkFit at work which allows alternating between sitting and standing by easily allowing me to raise or lower my monitor, mouse and keyboard.
I also ordered a Swopper chair, which is cool, but I think it needs some mods.
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Coding & Development
For coding, I use Python and also do shell scripting where required.
Design
Other
I grudgingly use MacOS X Lion.
They are running Funtoo Linux with OpenVZ and are used for development as well as hosting.
I will use Windows 7 or Mac OS interchangeably as desktops, and often surprise people when they find this out.