Dhanji PrasannaInterview
Hacker, ex-Googler (Wave, Plus, Search)
Adapted from Dhanji Prasanna's interview on Uses This, published 23 January 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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I'm a bit of an input device magpie, so am currently using a Razer Mamba gaming mouse, which sports 5000dpi accuracy and wireless mode.
Also a Kinesis Advantage ergonomic keyboard, which has an amazing split keyset that minimizes your finger stretch distance in all directions and has the most satisfying key-travel of any keyboard I've ever seen.
The Kinesis is good for writing and the Apple keyboard for coding as my muscle memory for shortcuts are still in the standard layout.
I have an iPad 2 and love it dearly, but don't use it much.
Communication
I like the Twitter Mac App for twitter.
I don't really like Adium, but it's the best of a bad lot in IM.
Productivity
Browser
What else -- my browser is Chrome.
Coding & Development
Most of the software I write is in Java and usually meant to run in servers.
(Having said that I still am quite fond of TextWrangler =)
I only use jQuery and don't really like any UI frameworks (including the rather disappointing jQuery UI).
Storage
Other
I run all experiments on an Amazon EC2 m1.large instance with EBS volumes.
I bought the iMac purely for Starcraft 2 but I've come to enjoy its ginormous screen and lack of wires.