Kyle KingsburyInterview
Computer safety researcher
Adapted from Kyle Kingsbury's interview on Uses This, published 13 April 2017. 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 use a Logitech G5 laser mouse, which may be the closest to the Platonic ideal pointing device as it is possible for late-stage capitalism to produce.
My display is a 32-inch 4k Dell -- I think it's a UP3216Q.
Communication
There are no labels on the keycaps (it was the only model they had on sale) which means it takes me forever to type passwords -- and every time I use Mutt is a game of Russian Roulette.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
There's a lot of LaTeX in my life, come to think of it.
Coding & Development
Maybe it comes with being a Vim user.
It's a wonderful screen for editing photographs and for rendering lots of xterms, which, let's face it, is 90% of my computing life.
Morganastra sold me on the Fish shell a few years ago and I've never looked back.
So when I'm writing software I live in six to twelve gnome-terminals.
Then there's usually a clojure repl, and a test runner that automatically reloads and runs tests when I write files to disk.
Maybe a window for git commands and running various tools.
Design
Media
I take photos with my phone or camera on a tripod, and clean them up in GIMP.
Other
I blog about software and wrote some open source projects, like Riemann.
Every so often I try to become a Normal Computer User so I can spend less time futzing with my weird tools, try OS X for a week, and give up.