Emmett ButlerInterview
Software engineer (PyKafka), game developer (Cibele)
Adapted from Emmett Butler's interview on Uses This, published 26 April 2016. 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
When I'm doing things that are specific to Mac or Windows, I resort to my 2009 MacBook Pro with a Windows partition.
In my home office, I use a GeekDesk, a Herman Miller office chair, and an Imprint floor mat to help with standing fatigue.
Communication
Coding & Development
For a while, I was using Sublime Text's vim compatibility mode, and it eventually got too cumbersome so I just started using vim.
On Windows, though, I use the ConEmu console emulator instead of the horrendous default terminal.
Media
Other
I'm a software engineer at Parse.ly where I build data collection infrastructure and maintain open source projects related to that work.
I love Debian-flavored Linux, and I've been running either Ubuntu or Debian since 2010.
Apache's Storm and Kafka projects are two of the cornerstones of the platform that Parse.ly is building, and I write code that talks to them quite regularly.