Jonas M. LusterInterview
Food scientist (el Bulli), developer
Adapted from Jonas M. Luster's interview on Uses This, published 8 January 2013. 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
On the tech side it's Nexus 7 tablets because of the NFC support.
An AAXA Pico Projector is in my bag at all times - it works well if you want to show things to small audiences that don't fit around your computer.
Communication
Productivity
All my data is in Google Drive, now, since I got a free 100G with my Chromebook.
Browser
Adobe's Edge Inspect makes developing for the mobile web so much easier for me.
Coding & Development
I write my cooking works and the occasional "that's what it's like to be a chef" short story in Sublime Text.
I know I am not the only one but there aren't many chefs who keep all their recipes in hand-written XML checked into a Git repository and run XQuery queries over it for Christmas dinner menu ideas.
We manage source in-house in Git with an eye on publishing it all in one block into Github as Open Source as soon as we have a working prototype kitchen setup.
Other
I am using Redis a lot for Pub/Sub type operations and Ruby for desktop and web apps that control, for example, ordering and ticketing systems.