Gabriel WeinbergInterview
Web developer, founder of DuckDuckGo
Adapted from Gabriel Weinberg's interview on Uses This, published 12 October 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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My main setup is a HP Pavilion Elite HPE-180t PC, which is a glorified name for a quad-core desktop with 16GB RAM.
Attached to it are three 28" Hanns G monitors, two vertical (on the ends) and the middle one horizontal.
I also have one of these D-Link USB hubs and way too many associated devices sitting around.
But mostly for devices I use a very old Plantronics headset and a Logitech Orbit webcam (for Skype).
When not in my basement, I'm using my laptop, which is a HP Envy 13T-1000.
For phone, I have a Android T-mobile G2, though its slowness is getting on my nerves lately.
I also recently bought a new DSLR camera -- Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 to be specific -- though I still haven't wrapped my head around all of its features.
Communication
Browser
I use all the Web browsers a lot since I'm constantly chasing browser bugs, and don't currently really like any of them though I lean towards Chrome (but currently am annoyed at it because it keeps crashing on me).
Notes
Coding & Development
Design
Media
Other
I'm in PuTTY all the time.
My dev machine is actually my desktop and I use VMware Server to manage it.