Mary Rose CookInterview
Coder, musician
Adapted from Mary Rose Cook's interview on Uses This, published 7 November 2011. 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 have an 11" MacBook Air.
It is so small and light that I can put it inside my (electric pink) Incase sleeve and put that into my (black) mini Eastpak rucksack and not even notice it's on my back.
I had tried using a condenser mic for the guitar and an SM58 for the vocals, but that hadn't really worked because they seemed too formal mounted on stands to be leant towards and played and sung into.
Communication
Productivity
I'm not a natural customiser - I use Quicksilver solely as an application launcher - but I really enjoy the emacs cycle of change: months spent oblivious to how enraged I am by some process or behaviour or keystroke, a recognition that the source of pain exists, a bunch of Googling, between one and twenty lines of new config, a sigh of relief.
Browser
I browse the web and test my projects in Chrome.
Notes
Notational Velocity+ 23 others
I have a large collection of technical notes and aide-mémoires in Notational Velocity.
Coding & Development
Most recently, I made a game in JavaScript called Pistol Slut and recorded an EP called 10997 on my phone in the kitchen of my old apartment in Berlin.
I use emacs to write code and prose.
After a while, I installed emacs at home, and then my config was a hundred lines long, and then I realised that I hadn't used TextMate in months.
I store and distribute my code on Github.
Media
I crop images for my blog and draw sprites for my games in Acorn.
Storage
Some of the apps I use make their desktop counterparts better: iCal, SimpleNote.
Other
I ssh into my web servers with Prompt.
I occasionally write short posts in WordPress for my anonymous, public diary.