Ham VockeInterview
Software developer (Stack Overflow)
Adapted from Ham Vocke's interview on Uses This, published 16 February 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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Right now I use a 15-inch 2019 MacBook Pro to build Stack Overflow.
Then there's a Herman Miller Aeron chair for, well...
100% of my bugs are typed on a Vortex Tab75 keyboard with Cherry MX brown switches.
I've got a Logitech MX Master 2S that I'm quite fond of.
I own a pair of Bose QuietComfort 25 headphones that I bought mostly for my previous consulting job.
I read books on a Kindle Paperwhite.
Productivity
Browser
I use Firefox for all my web browsing and web development since I strongly believe that we need more than Google, Microsoft and Apple dominating everything they touch.
Notes
Security
My passwords are stored in Bitwarden.
Coding & Development
Alacritty is my terminal emulator but I don't have a strong opinion on this one.
My editors are vim and Visual Studio Code.
I use vim for working on small programming tasks and long-form writing and switch over to VS Code as my code grows larger.
Other
Windows Subsystem for Linux+ 9 others
While macOS is not my preferred choice I'd take it over working in a Windows environment any day - WSL is not enough to convince me.