Martin O'LearyInterview
Artist, developer
Adapted from Martin O'Leary's interview on Uses This, published 8 November 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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I live and breathe through my 2017 13" MacBook Pro (the cheaper model without the Touch Bar).
My phone is an iPhone 6, but the battery life has become abysmal so I'm looking to upgrade.
I recently bought a second-hand Samsung Galaxy A8 for an art piece, which is a really nice piece of hardware, but I'm too tied into the Apple ecosystem to switch to it full-time.
My "studio" is one side of our guest bedroom, where I've got an IKEA NORDEN table, which is sturdy and nice to look at, but not so nice that I feel bad about dropping a soldering iron on it.
It's currently playing host to the beginnings of a homebrewed modular synthesizer, and an EleksDraw pen plotter.
I like Uni-ball Signo Gel RT pens, but I keep losing them.
For actually producing artwork, I use Sakura Pigma Micron pens on Daler-Rowney Smooth Cartridge paper.
I carry everything around in a blue Osprey Quantum backpack, which I've had for nearly a decade.
Communication
Productivity
I use a lot of Jupyter notebooks, but I'm a terrible person, so they're all called something like "Untitled94.ipynb".
I use Keynote for presentations, and it's fine, I guess?
Browser
Security
Coding & Development
Design
Storage
Other
Right now I'm using nvALT as a note-taking app (I'm typing this interview into it), which at least has the advantage that when I eventually give up on it, all my data will still be in easily accessible text files.
The main drain on my battery life is probably Marvel Puzzle Quest, which is my block-matching zone-out game of choice.