Madelin WoodsInterview
Developer (Square), artist
Adapted from Madelin Woods's interview on Uses This, published 11 September 2014. 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 love my 11" MacBook Air - though it's not super great for running a lot of services and applications at work, it's light and doesn't make too many funny noises.
When I'm at my desk, I'll typically have it plugged into a Cinema Display for the bigger screen.
I do a lot of pair programming, so I'm constantly jumping between different people's computers and iMacs set up as pairing machines.
When I'm home, I mostly just use my iPad 2.
It's just the right size for drawing, reading, and air playing my music or movies with my Apple TV.
I have a black iPhone 5.
I carry a Moleskine sketchbook with a Quiver to hold my Muji 0.5 black pens.
ZIG Water Colour System H20 Brush
Water's kind of hard to carry around, so I use a Zig Water Brush2O Pen.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Day One is amazing for all my personal writing, anything from journaling to jotting down poems and stories to morning pages.
Coding & Development
Media
I read a lot, and usually just use iBooks on my iPad, because I like being able to highlight things and refer back to them.
Storage
I love Day One because it's super easy to sync across all my devices, and backs up to Dropbox.
Other
I have been working at Square for the last 3 years, as a front-end engineer, building out the UI and front-end architecture for a handful of our web products.
I'm currently working on our Receipts team, but I've helped launch products like Square Market and gift cards in the past.
I use Paper on my iPad for drawing, and have been using TuneIn to stream FIP radio, a station I fell in love with while living for a month in Paris this past April.