Parker HigginsInterview
Artist, activist (Freedom of the Press Foundation)
Adapted from Parker Higgins's interview on Uses This, published 3 July 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
I do almost everything on a ThinkPad T460s that I specced out as far as I could afford to about two years ago.
When I'm shooting pictures I use an Olympus OM-D E-M10, mostly because it was Wirecutter's pick as a midrange mirrorless.
Communication
My blog runs on WordPress, which is truly inspirational as a piece of software, as an organization, and as a community.
Productivity
Coding & Development
Then again, at this point I mostly have open a browser with lots of tabs and a tmux session with lots of tabs, so it just doesn't make that big a difference.
For editing text, I usually use the very basic gedit program.
Storage
Other
I'm a relatively late convert to the iPhone, but eventually the camera got good enough, and Android's claim to free software purity got bad enough, that I made the leap.