Mat MarquisInterview
Web designer, developer (Bocoup)
Adapted from Mat Marquis's interview on Uses This, published 23 March 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 have a Disston D-8 handsaw that works better than it has any right to for being, y'know, roughly one hundred and fifty years old.
I don't exactly have a "knife kit" where I'm never taking my particularly low-production-quality show on the road, but: a Shun Classic 8" chef knife is my go-to, and I have a carbon steel knife I handled myself (padauk, of course) for heavier duty jobs.
Work-wise, I have a 15-inch MacBook Pro that's getting a little long in the tooth.
Productivity
Coding & Development
My secondary monitor is also hot garbage, speaking of, but it really only ever has full-screen iTerm goin' on it.
For code, I use Sublime Text in unspeakably inefficient ways, akin to spinning a pneumatic nailgun around backwards and using it to hammer nails by hand.
Design
Design-wise: I'm a little behind the curve, but I officially became Sketch people a few months ago.
I'd be ready to ditch the Adobe suite altogether, except for the sake of janky ol' Photoshop's "Save for Web."
Other
I've probably logged more hours in 12 Rounds than any other app on my phone.