Anthony AgiusInterview
Writer, Editor (The Sizzle)
Adapted from Anthony Agius's interview on Uses This, published 16 February 2024. 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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Primary rig is a 2021 16" MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and an M1 Pro SoC.
It spends most of its time hooked up to an Apple Studio Display, which is less impressive due to the cost, but as someone that spends all day looking at text on a screen it's hard going back to a non-Retina display and the Studio Display is one of the few displays that sits in the 200-240 PPI sweet spot.
I looked into getting an Apple Magic Keyboard so I could have Touch ID support, but the keyboard itself is pretty average with horrible "key feel" that wasn't comfortable for me, so the MX Keys stays.
Communication
Mailgun - there's plenty of email API platforms around but Mailgun is one of the few to have a built-in mailing list feature.
Coding & Development
Sublime Text - I write everything in a text editor rather than a word processor, then paste it elsewhere should I need to share it.
Make.com - a no-code platform that automates so much of The Sizzle for me, absolutely invaluable for a coding hack like me.
Media
I paired them with a 2nd-hand NAD C 658 simply because it's one of the cheapest devices that supports Dirac Live room correction EQ without requiring any software running on my computer.
Other
macOS is my platform of choice but only really out of habit these days.
Feedbin - RSS service that syncs the 1000s of feeds I subscribe to between multiple devices and also has a nice web interface itself.
Reeder - best RSS reader app I've used, but only on Apple devices.
Pinboard - anything interesting I see on the internet I bookmark it on Pinboard for safe keeping and easy retrieval later.
Discourse - a really modern web forum software package that I self-host as a community for Sizzle subscribers.