Emilie ReedInterview
Writer, games historian
Adapted from Emilie Reed's interview on Uses This, published 25 July 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 ↗
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My laptop is a Lenovo Yoga 510, it was discounted because it was the last one of this type at the PC World and I got it in late 2016 when my other laptop wouldn't start up after I came back from a trip!
My phone is an iPhone SE mainly because everything else is too big for my hands.
I have a Blue Snowball microphone a colleague lent me so we could work on a podcast together but I also use it for video calls in general over the past year since the built in laptop mic makes me sound like I'm trying to yell something across a factory floor at you.
Also in the midst of optimism about social distancing ending last year I bought a Tandy WP-2 to use as a single-use writing device, but obviously haven't been able to take it out much still...
Communication
HexChat is also an important part of this workflow.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
When I have to go in and tweak the code, I use Notepad++.
Coding & Development
Design
Media
Similar to my relationship with iTunes, it kind of sucks, but it's the way I know how to sync music to my phone so I still use it.
Other
I stopped updating the iOS when there was a big change that would make some of the older app store games, like Flappy Bird, not work, so it has some historical artifacts on it and also still has a pretty steady battery life.
I post my stuff and find games through itch.io, I really hate when I have to open one of the storefront applications so try to avoid it.
It can be helpful for writing website stuff as well but usually I just do that right in the editor Neocities offers.