Jane Manchun WongInterview
Engineer, security researcher
Adapted from Jane Manchun Wong's interview on Uses This, published 16 July 2020. 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 do most of my coding and reverse engineering work on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017).
I carried the laptop with me in my Kånken backpack so I can tear apart apps whenever and wherever I can (sometimes I do it in a subway).
I use the Twelve South Curve stand as the laptop stand as it helps with heat dissipation.
At home, I connect the laptop to an LG 27UK850-W monitor using a single Thunderbolt 3 cable, which not only handles video signals, but also the audio and power delivery.
Speaking of peripherals, I use Magic Trackpad 2 instead of a mouse.
I picked Vortex Race 3 with Cherry MX Blue key switches as my mechanical keyboard because its layout is similar to laptop keyboards.
I have been using OnePlus 6T as my mobile phone since its launch in November 2018 because it had the best notch design at the time.
But for meetings, I use the trusty EarPods, which aire wired and can outlast any wireless headphones/earbuds for infinitely long meetings.
Communication
Productivity
Coding & Development
I use iTerm2 as my terminal emulator.
The Unix shell of my choice is Z Shell, with the third-party configurations managed using Antigen.
I use Neovim as text editor and terminal pager.
I edit code using Visual Studio Code, which has been increasingly popular among Front End Engineers.
Design
My go-to monospaced font is PragmataPro.
Media
The Preview app is also very useful when I need to apply watermarks on screenshots and crop them.
I combine screenshots using ImageMagick's montage.
That is done completely by using FFmpeg with permutations of filters which allow trimming, cropping, watermarking, converting, etc in one go.