David CrawshawInterview
Co-founder, CTO (Tailscale)
Adapted from David Crawshaw's interview on Uses This, published 7 June 2021. 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
Microphones are important, so I have an Elgato Wave:3 and open ear headphones.
I also attach the back camera of an iPad Pro.
The Headless AMD Threadripper is running Proxmox.
Communication
Security
I am co-founder and CTO of Tailscale.
I switched it to Linux for disk performance but would like to get this back to OpenBSD.
Coding & Development
When I switch away from programming in Go, I switch to this machine to run slow compilers (like llvm).
For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim.
Other
I have a lot of feelings about macOS: it is astonishingly painful for developers, but makes up for it with a consistent experience for users.
The router and Proxmox machines are attached with some QSFP+ 40gbit hardware I got off eBay.