Kate RayInterview
Web developer, technical co-founder (scroll kit)
Adapted from Kate Ray's interview on Uses This, published 11 December 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 15" MacBook Pro that's about two and a half years old (2010 model) but is good to me.
I wear a big pair of over-the-ear headphones even though I don't listen to music while working; I think the physical metaphor of plugging into my computer improves my focus.
I also have a laser star projector that I'm sure improves my code in some occult way.
Communication
Productivity
I can corroborate this because I use RescueTime to track my productivity based on which applications I'm using.
My cofounder and I have also been using Google Docs for awhile now and I can't imagine how we'd work without it.
Browser
Coding & Development
Every morning, I write out my day's to-do list, drawn together from all the apps and emails and github issues.
Storage
Other
I'm a terrible insomniac so I also use f.lux, which slowly warms the colors of your screen based on the time of day and supposedly helps with your circadian rhythm or something.