Kathy ReidInterview
Linguistic Engineer
Adapted from Kathy Reid's interview on Uses This, published 24 December 2024. 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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In my spare time, I tinker a bit with technologies like wearable computing - so Lilypad and Arduino pieces, and yes, I have a Flipper Zero, although I haven't had time to explore it in any great detail.
Over the years, I've covered by hardware and software setups in my "State of my Toolchain" posts, but in summary my main laptop is an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 with 32GB RAM and an RTX 3080 GPU.
I have a Mobvoi TicWatch Pro - I bought my first one in 2018 and it lasted until last year, then I bought the equivalent model last year, primarily so I could re-use the spare chargers I have.
ish I bought my first Plantronics BB Pro 2 headphones, and got another pair on sale half price a couple years later.
I have a Keychron K8 keyboard with blue switches.
My go to mouse is the Logitech M720, I love how you can pair it with the Nano receiver, or Bluetooth.
Communication
I'm on Thunderbird mostly for mail.
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
I have some heavily customised .bashlogin scripts and a customised shell with Gogh for all my terminal stuff.
My IDE is VSCode - begrudgingly, because I loved Atom, but I've been pleasantly surprised.
Storage
Other
My second monitor is mounted vertically, although I have to use some special arandr foo on Linux to get it working.
A tablet that was Android based seemed to be a better option, and the Tab X uses stock, vanilla Android - AOSP?
I love the convenience of the smart watch, it reduces how much I check my phone, and it records my heart rate, which I plug into Cardiogram.
I scored a great deal a couple years ago on a Sennheiser MOMENTUM 3 over ear wireless headphone set and the audio out of that is great.
Software wise, I use Ubuntu Linux 99% of the time.