Mihai ParparitaInterview
Software engineer
Adapted from Mihai Parparita's interview on Uses This, published 26 February 2015. 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 primary machine at home is a mid-2010 Mac Pro with 12 cores, 20 GB of RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card.
This is all on top of and under an IKEA Jerker desk.
Hooked up to the TV is a second-generation Apple TV that is our TV's only input.
For work my one and only machine is a mid-2012 15" Retina MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM and a 768 GB SSD.
Nylon Compact Backpack+ 1 other
I carry it in an Incase Compact Backpack which is the smallest backpack I could find that both fit the laptop and didn't get in the way of sprinting to catch the train.
I also have a Canon Rebel T1i DSLR, but it's been losing out to the iPhone for pictures, especially as our son has grown up and thus less likely to stay put while I get the big camera.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Chrome is my primary web browser on both Mac OS X and iOS.
Security
I'm becoming more and more of a 1Password convert.
Coding & Development
I use Terminal for all my command-line needs.
Design
Media
Storage
It also serves as the main storage hub for our house, and thus in addition to a 256 GB SSD it also has two 4 TB drives (one serving as a Time Machine backup).
For files that I need access to from everywhere I use Dropbox.
Other
At Quip I end up doing a little bit of everything, but primarily web and iOS work, most recently spreadsheets.
TotalSpaces2 makes Spaces more power-user friendly, adding more features and allowing more control over transition times.
MagicPrefs is also in that vein, giving me more customization options over the gestures that can be done with the Magic Mouse.
I have a few gauges in my menu bar courtesy of iStat Menus.