Nolen RoyaltyInterview
Game and web developer
Adapted from Nolen Royalty's interview on Uses This, published 30 May 2025. 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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Day to day I program on a 14 inch M3 MacBook Pro without an external monitor.
It's got two 1440p monitors and an RTX 3070TI.
For my desktop I've used the same Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless with Cherry Black keys for the last decade.
For a mouse I use a Logitech G502 Hero.
Browser
Coding & Development
The most important thing is iTerm2, configured as a full-screen transparent dropdown terminal that I can pull up with a hotkey (I use ctrl-;).
I use zsh as my shell.
I also do some editing in VSCode.
I use it for JavaScript since I don't know JavaScript as well as some other languages, which means I use it a fair amount now.
Media
I guess recently I used Davinci Resolve to edit my first video.
Other
I think I picked it up because it was popular with Starcraft players back when I was a Starcraft player.
That's basically always a Linux server via DigitalOcean.
I occasionally use Karabiner to remap keys, although over time I've found that this isn't super necessary.
I use BetterTouchTool to add a tonnnn of functionality to the trackpad.
Oh and I use (and love) Kap for screen recording on Mac.