Eric MeyerInterview
Web standards monkey
Adapted from Eric Meyer's interview on Uses This, published 8 March 2011. 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 have a 4GB dual-core 15" MacBook Pro, which is my "compromise size": a screen just big enough for desktop work in a physical factor just small enough for me to haul around when I travel.
I also plug in an old Macally iKey keyboard and a Logitech MX 500 optical mouse so I can have better input channels than what's built into the laptop.
For mobile, I have an unhacked iPhone 3GS.
Communication
Productivity
Somewhat ironically, Keynote is generally how I build slideshows for talks - at least for those talks that use slides.
Browser
Safari is generally my "oh, this site requires auto-loaded Flash and I can't just ignore it" browser (in Camino, I've disabled Flash for all but a few sites) but I've also been using it to trial CSS3 techniques.
Coding & Development
Of course, Terminal gets a fair number of launches into a lightly customized bash shell.
A whole lot of my time is spent in BBEdit, which I've been very happily using for more years than I can recall.
(I know, you'd think that I'd use S5.
Design
Adobe Photoshop gets some use, mostly when my business partner sends me designs and buttons and such to turn into markup and CSS, but also when I want to goof around a bit with images or process screenshots for my writing.
Media
Other
I run OS X Leopard on the MacBook because I can't be bothered to mess with a perfectly functional setup just to say I have the latest operating system, and also because I have some beloved old programs that I'm afraid will be broken by an upgrade.
I have a copy of Windows 7 but have yet to set up a VMware instance to run it.
The Macbook is contextually reconfigured with Marco Polo.