Paul BauschInterview
Web developer (MetaFilter)
Adapted from Paul Bausch's interview on Uses This, published 1 January 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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I use an Apple Magic Mouse on a solid steel mousepad with the words "MAKE SHIP ITERATE" engraved into it.
I have an amazing Realforce keyboard.
I use several external hard drives for backups including a loud 4-bay Drobo.
My desk is an old IKEA Galant with motorized sit/stand legs that they made for a while in the early 2000's.
When I'm sitting I have a well worn Mirra chair.
(That's the Aeron's cheaper cousin.) When I'm standing I have an Imprint Cumulus9 mat.
My main camera is a Canon 5D Mark II.
I use a Mobi card in a CF adapter so I can send pictures directly to my iPhone while I'm out.
Communication
In ancient Web history I helped build the weblog tool Blogger and I wrote a few early Hacks books for O'Reilly.
At MetaFilter we do almost everything in email so I have Gmail open all day.
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
Design
Media
Storage
Other
pb) and I've been a web developer at MetaFilter for around nine years.
MetaFilter is written in ColdFusion so that's my primary language.
On the server side I spend a lot of time in SQL Server Management Studio.
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I'm also frequently flipping knobs at Amazon Web Services.