Jesse KrissInterview
Software designer and developer (Netflix)
Adapted from Jesse Kriss's interview on Uses This, published 10 May 2019. 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 have an Evoluent VerticalMouse that I swear by, and have been using for about 15 years now.
I used an iPhone SE for a long time, until the logic board gave out, which messed with the power consumption.
I can't access work stuff with it, though, so I have my main SIM in my work phone - a Google Pixel - that I carry with me most of the time.
I was a latecomer to the Bluetooth headphone camp, but I spend a lot of time on the shuttle to and from work, and my Sony MDR-100ABN headphones are really fantastic.
My favorite piece of hardware right now is my AlphaSmart Neo 2, an electronic word processor built in the early 2000's for the educational market.
I'm quite happy with my Kindle Oasis, which gets a lot of use.
They're convenient, sure, but why should I be using mobile data to stream music to a $1000 phone when I can get an MP3 player for $26 that can hold 7000 songs on a micro SD card and has 80 hour battery life?
I've got a pretty beefy BoomCase, which is fun, plus a few more typical ones like the Ultimate Ears Boom and a few cheaper, smaller ones.
Communication
Productivity
Instapaper kicks in if I'm on a plane.
Security
We open source our work when we think it might be useful to others.
Coding & Development
I use altcloud for all my little web projects these days.
Media
I work on the Information Security team at Netflix, where I focus on making security software reasonable (and reasonably easy) for people who have access to Netflix corporate stuff.