Michael LoppInterview
Engineering manager, reposer
Adapted from Michael Lopp's interview on Uses This, published 9 July 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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My coffee shop rig is 15-inch MacBook Pro.
I had a MacBook Air, but while sexy on airplanes, I always felt like I was going to bend it.
My mobile set-up follows me around in a Johnson & Murphy messenger bag that is perfect for getting around the Valley and is wearing well.
My home rig is a Mac Pro 2 x 2.8Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 4 GB of memory.
For typing, I use the latest Apple aluminum keyboard.
Performance Mouse MX+ 9 others
For mousing, I use the Logitech Performance Mouse MX because it feels great in my hand and has the best scroll wheel I've found.
I depend on my iPhone 4 for email triage, texting, and snapshots.
If I'm busting a photography move, I have a Panasonic DMC-LX3 which provides lovely 16:9 shots, but the lens is too fucking big for my pocket.
Productivity
If I had to commit to a newsreader, it'd be NetNewsWire.
If I had to commit to a productivity application, it'd be Things.
For subsequent drafts and editing, I end up in Microsoft Word which pisses me off.
For presentations, I love, absolutely love, Keynote.
Browser
For information consumption and tracking, I've recently moved to Chrome because of the blazing speed, but also because it felt like it was time to escape the Cone of Kool-Aid that is Apple to see what the rest of the world was doing.
Coding & Development
For writing first drafts, I use TextEdit and have done so for the writing of two books.
For most coding tasks, TextMate is just fine.
Design
Other
I'm a Mac OS X nerd and have been so for the past eight years.