Johan NordbergInterview
Freelance developer (Wintersmith)
Adapted from Johan Nordberg's interview on Uses This, published 7 June 2016. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
Oh, and my portable speaker, the "iLoud".
Communication
Productivity
Security
Coding & Development
Sublime Text 3 is probably where I spend most of my time - it's where I do all my coding.
Design
And when I need something sliced for 3D printing I use Simplify3D, which I found through countless hours of experimenting to produce the best results.
Slic3r is pretty good too, if you want a hackable alternative.
Media
Storage
I manage backups with a self-hosted Syncthing cloud that has servers in both hemispheres so I can get decent speeds wherever I'm located.
I also use Carbon Copy Cloner to make bootable full-disk backup images.
Other
And I'm not sure if this counts as hardware, but I use Amazon EC2 to offload my laptop for heavy workloads like 3D rendering and data processing.