Ken LiuInterview
Author, programmer, lawyer
Adapted from Ken Liu's interview on Uses This, published 7 December 2018. 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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My main machine is a 2016 12-inch MacBook.
At home I connect it to an LG UltraFine 4K monitor.
I also use an iPad Pro 9.7 for taking notes by hand and brainstorming.
Coding & Development
I use Scrivener to draft my novels.
For short stories and nonfiction, I use Ulysses.
For general text editing, nothing quite beats vim.
I maintain a custom set of Python scripts for various text processing tasks.