Julie Ann HorvathInterview
Designer, developer (GitHub)
Adapted from Julie Ann Horvath's interview on Uses This, published 3 November 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
I haven't upgraded to a Retina Macbook yet, I'm holding on to the hope that Apple will release a Retina Air.
Thunderbolt Display+ 37 others
Sometimes I use a Cinema Thunderbolt display.
Communication
iMessage: I use iMessage to chat to people during my work day.
I sync my old AIM accounts, my personal phone number, and my Gmail accounts.
Browser
If so, Google Chrome is where I do most of my work.
Notes
Notational Velocity+ 23 others
As an alternative, I started using Notational Velocity a few years ago, which is rad for note taking and general to-do list chicken scratch.
Coding & Development
I'm a designer and frontend developer at GitHub.
I spend most of my time in Sublime Text.
I use the developer tools like web inspector to manipulate mockups or apps locally and then make those changes in my text editor.
Design
Storage
It's also fully searchable and you can sync all of your "notes" to the cloud with simplenote.
Other
Because I use GitHub Pages for most of the static websites I build, I can just commit the changes in browser and the page builds happen almost instantaneously.
I honestly couldn't live without ColorSnapper.