Mitchell HashimotoInterview
Entrepeneur, developer (Vagrant)
Adapted from Mitchell Hashimoto's interview on Uses This, published 2 July 2013. 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 is a 13" Retina MacBook Pro.
I realized about a week after buying it that the economics of buying a fully-loaded 13" MacBook Air are actually better in terms of raw specs, but I fell in love with the screen too quickly, and wouldn't return it.
I hook up my laptop to a Crossover 27Q monitor, one of those Korean IPS monitors I bought from eBay.
My mobile phone is an iPhone 5.
Productivity
I use Slate for Window management.
I love love love xmonad but it only works with X11 on Mac, so Slate is the next best thing.
Alfred is indispensable if only for the clipboard history.
Browser
(command-D, shift-command-D, MEMORIZE IT!) I browse the internet using Google Chrome.
Security
Coding & Development
While the software is running Vagrant, I edit text in vim.
I use iTerm2 as my terminal, I can't live without the splits!
For Go, golang-crosscompile is a must-have.
I use Git for version control.
Even when my publisher, O'Reilly, forces me to use SVN for writing books, I just use git-svn.
Other
I'm most known for my work on Vagrant.