Mark PilgrimInterview
Developer & standards advocate (Google)
Adapted from Mark Pilgrim's interview on Uses This, published 30 January 2010. 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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Lenovo ThinkCentre M57p tower (8GB of RAM, Nvidia Quadro NVS440).
Three monitors: two 24-inch Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP monitors (rotated 90 degrees so they are "tallscreens" @ 1200 x 1920) on either side of a 27-inch Samsung 275T+ @ 1920 x 1200.
Three Drobos with a total of 9.5 terabytes of storage.
My phone is an Android G1 Dev Phone (a gift from my employer).
My desk chair is an IKEA Poäng.
I have a Logitech Squeezebox in my dining room hooked up to my Pandora account, and I use it to listen to music during dinner.
I listen to digital music on my computer, via the network-enabled Squeezebox in the dining room, or on an old iPod in the living room that I hooked up to a Klipsch iGroove.
Communication
Gmail (actually Google Apps For Your Domain) for my personal email.
Productivity
Google Reader for keeping up with feeds.
Google Docs for my (very light) spreadsheet needs.
Browser
Nightly build of Chromium full-screen on the right-hand (tallscreen) monitor.
Coding & Development
Emacs 23 full-screen on the center (widescreen) monitor.
Other
Robo Defense (Note to my previous editor: this is why your book was late.
Latest version of Ubuntu Linux 64-bit.
I have relatively few Emacs customizations, but the big one is ido-mode, which I just discovered this year (thanks Emacs subreddit).
Pandora for most of my music listening, and a variety of random Internet radio stations for the rest.
All the Wii games we've bought have been "ripped" to an external hard drive, and the Wii boots into a custom launcher.
I wrote the original Dive Into Python in DocBook XML.