Nelson MinarInterview
Software engineer
Adapted from Nelson Minar's interview on Uses This, published 21 June 2018. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
For a laptop I have a 2017 Razer Blade, also a gamer system.
PC hardware is definitely not as nice as Apple hardware, even the Razer Blade is a poor second to the best older MacBook Pros.
Communication
Slack is my social media of choice, although of course I'm on Twitter and Facebook too.
A few Discord servers too; Discord is marketed as Slack for gamers but it works fine for other communities too.
Productivity
I miss Alfred for doing this on macOS, it is really lovely.
Browser
Security
1Password is essential for managing logins.
Coding & Development
When I'm writing code I use Sublime Text 2 with minimal customizations.
Storage
Other
The most recent public thing I released is Wanderings, a lightweight location tracker for creating a personal record of where you've been.
A lot of my real work takes place on Linux boxes running Ubuntu.
I've got an iPhone in my pocket and an iPad that mostly just runs the Kindle app.
I also use Hain for launching programs, I type Win-Space and the first few letters of the program name and it launches.
Windows Subsystem for Linux+ 9 others
One of the ways I make Windows work for me is I run Ubuntu in it via the Windows Subsystem for Linux.