Paul TweedyInterview
Senior Technical Architect, BBC
Adapted from Paul Tweedy's interview on Uses This, published 11 June 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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Somewhat predictably, I rely on a MacBook Pro for work and play.
I have a Sony HDR-CX730E camcorder for capturing video, which just seems to accumulate without the time to edit any of it down.
My phone is an iPhone 4S.
My Beyerdynamic DT-250 headphones mean I can work in relative silence, which is important when you've got a delicately-sleeping baby in the next room!
Communication
As a Technical Architect within a large team I don't get to do serious coding any more - my time is variously split between meetings with engineers & product people, email generation, IRC (irssi) and working up specifications and approaches for things, which can then be iterated on.
Browser
Notes
Notational Velocity+ 23 others
Taking notes quickly and being able to find them again is important, and Notational Velocity has served me well for years.
Coding & Development
I'm kind of old-school, so I reach for Emacs to do all my non-trivial editing.
I'm happy using vim for most quick editing tasks, though.
Design
For diagramming and communicating visually, Omnigraffle Pro is king.
Media
Storage
To keep everything manageable across different locations, I rely on Dropbox to backup and sync all my important stuff.
Other
I did Linux-on-the-desktop for years and years, before I finally got bored of the constant round of customisation, kernel recompilation, drivers and things just-not-quite-working, and made the shift to OS X.
For a while (when I didn't have a Macbook at work), I had to use an awful piece of Windows bloatware called Enterprise Architect - never again!