Mike HoyeInterview
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Adapted from Mike Hoye's interview on Uses This, published 2 April 2019. 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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These days I roll with a current-gen iPhone, and the primary work machine is a Surface Book.
The camera is amazing and pairing it with a fold-up Bluetooth keyboard makes for an OK ad-hoc workplace.
Microsoft's Surface Dock is as close perfect as any docking station I've ever seen, words no Thinkpad veteran would say lightly, and more screen real estate is always better.
I keep the music collection I depend on to manage my mood on a Fiio X3, partly because of FLAC support and partly because it runs on its own battery but mostly because iTunes is kind of a disaster.
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After my beloved N9 slowly faded out I tried to make a reasonably healthy if guarded relationship with Android work.
iOS has, um, swiped a lot of the N9's best ideas while I was away; I was surprised at how familiar it feels.
They've executed well on that vision, no question, but macOS feels like it's been thoroughly nerfed as a consequence and these days that platform feels like a bad match for anyone mucking around in the guts of old systems or pushing the edges of new.
"Firefox Nightly for the rest" turns out to cover a lot of ground when so many tools are on the web, but since I move between machines a lot, the Firefox sync service and Tab Center Redux make my life materially better.