John Myles WhiteInterview
Statistics hacker, PhD student
Adapted from John Myles White's interview on Uses This, published 11 July 2012. 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've got a 2007 iMac that I mostly use to watch movies, although it's also acted as a server at times.
Communication
I write all my blog posts using MarsEdit.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
I write notes to myself using Evernote.
Coding & Development
I write all my code using TextMate 2.
The alpha release is a little brittle, but I've been a huge fan of TextMate ever since I first started building sites using Ruby on Rails, so I was really excited to see TextMate 2 leave the world of vaporware.
If I'm working only at the command-line, I'll use emacs.
Lately I've been programming a lot in a new language called Julia.
Media
Storage
To keep all of my files synchronized across the machines I own, I use Unison, a great program that seems to have never gained the traction it deserves.
Other
I also use the Kindle app on my iPad to do most of my pleasure reading.
And, of course, I use ProjectTemplate to organize all of my statistical modeling work.