Joe HewittInterview
Creator of Firebug, iPhone developer (Facebook)
Adapted from Joe Hewitt's interview on Uses This, published 28 June 2009. 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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My current specialty is iPhone apps.
My laptop is a MacBook Air, which I mainly use for Internet consumption.
As you would expect I use an iPhone 3G S as my cell phone.
I recently got a Canon 5D Mark II (mostly for its incredible HD video abilities), but I still use my iPhone for most of my photography just because it's always with me.
Communication
I have been employed at Facebook for two years, during which time I have created the Facebook iPhone app and the Facebook iPhone website.
Productivity
However, the main thing I do with my iPhone is not actually an app, but the web-based Google Reader.
Browser
Before the startup I worked on the Netscape browser team, and helped with the creation of Firefox just as Netscape was imploding and morphing into Mozilla.com.
I test my websites in Firefox+Firebug first, though Safari+Web Inspector is growing on me.
Coding & Development
For iPhone development, I spend most of my day in Xcode.
I also use Textmate for all non-iPhone programming tasks, which usually means Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Design
I design and mock up all of my software in Photoshop CS3.
Media
Storage
Other
Before Facebook I had a web startup which was acquired before we launched our product, but I did launch a popular web debugging tool during that time called Firebug.
I use and love IconFactory's xScope for close inspection of user interfaces I am developing.
I use ExpanDrive for all FTP.
I have a bunch of Fluid apps, mainly for various media players, like Pandora, MLB.tv, and ESPN Radio.