Greg MaleticInterview
Developer (Panic), illustrator
Adapted from Greg Maletic's interview on Uses This, published 13 January 2015. 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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At work I use one of the new, cylindrical Mac Pros.
I just use one monitor on my Mac, an Apple Cinema Display.
At home, I use an old-ish 13" MacBook Air.
Communication
We use Slack for intra-company communication, and it's very useful, though 1) it's a firehose of information; it feels like a full-time job to keep up with it, and 2) their "native" client is a little too HTML-y for my tastes.
iMessage has a ton of flaws, but unified messaging between all my devices is so useful that I still love it.
Security
Artificial Intelligence
I do our movie promos in Apple's Motion.
Coding & Development
Design
To draw, I use Adobe Illustrator almost exclusively.
After Effects is probably better, but for some reason I've convinced myself that Motion's behavior-based approach is superior, even though in practice I haven't found that to be true.
Media
Rdio for listening to music, though I don't often do that at work.
I edit ours in Adobe Premiere, and I know it's not even the best audio editing software in Creative Cloud, but it's what I know.
Storage
There's an external LaCie Thunderbolt drive where I store iTunes media; a second one stores Time Machine backups.
Dropbox: it's essential for everything I do.
Other
I work on various projects at Panic, though Status Board might be the one people know the best.
OS X Spaces work great for me.
(I just discovered my MacBook's AirDrop isn't compatible with iOS AirDrop, so its days are probably numbered.