Izzy MuerteInterview
Software engineer (C++)
Adapted from Izzy Muerte's interview on Uses This, published 27 January 2025. 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'm also using 3 ViewSonic 27" 144hz monitors from 2016 that work extremely well, and an RØDE NT-USB mini microphone.
These are both a recent upgrade and change up due to an unfortunate situation where a Stream Deck Mini shorted out a USB hub and damaged every device that was attached to it.
For general portable workloads, I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (6th Generation) that I've throw whatever Linux distro I fancy at the moment onto.
For computing, I turn to a Quartz Razer Blade 16" that has a dedicated GPU in it and runs quite well, though it's slower than my desktop for some software workloads.
For non-tech related stuff, I have a single synthesizer at the moment, the ELTA SOLAR 42f which I've been enjoying a great deal.
Communication
I don't use a mail client at the moment, as I use Proton as my primary mail provider since 2017 and I've been quite pleased with it.
It's an IRC client named Halloy.
I'm not using it as a daily driver (I don't have many spaces to be in regarding IRC anymore, as many communites have sadly moved to Discord or have entirely dissolved), but it has been a wonderful experience on all platforms all while being a self contained executable and having a nice native interface, even on Windows.
Productivity
For task tracking in my day to day life, I use Todoist, and I highly recommend it to others.
Browser
For a web browser, I use Mozilla's Firefox.
Notes
For larger note taking on specific topics, I currently use Obsidian to store my "digital gardens" even though it's just a bunch of markdown files that I push up to git from time to time and don't ever publish them anywhere.
Security
Proton recently purchased Standard Notes, which might end up available as part of a proton subscription so I might consider moving to that if it becomes available.
Coding & Development
For software development (both at home and at work), I use neovim for development.
Media
Storage
Other
However the usual suspects of ripgrep and co.