James GoldieInterview
Data journalist
Adapted from James Goldie's interview on Uses This, published 9 December 2022. 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 started getting some wrist problems using regular mice a year or two ago, so I carry at Logitech MX Vertical around most of the time.
Productivity
I've been using Reclaim a lot lately - the way it drops your task list into your calendar is absolute magic.
I'm trying to pare things back a bit, though: just dragging and dropping Google Tasks onto my calendar seems to be enough for most of my needs for now.
Notes
I've been using Google Colab Pro a bit recently for a machine learning side project.
Security
As far as other indispensable tools go, 1Password saves my life basically every day.
Coding & Development
A lot of data vis teams are moving toward Svelte these days, which has a lot of similar concepts, but we get a lot of interns and collaborators with an analysis background, so it's nice to have the flexibility of a stack that is familiar to them with an easy path to more traditional web tooling.
Other
It's ruinously expensive for a mouse, but it can connect to 3 different devices, so I can switch it between my work and play laptops and my gaming PC (which is really just for Destiny at this point, to be honest).