Robert LefkowitzInterview
Software architect, developer
Adapted from Robert Lefkowitz's interview on Uses This, published 13 March 2021. 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 acquired an Uplift curved corner standing desk in rubberwood.
Between the two, my BenQ LED desk lamp which is very bright and can be easily oriented to illuminate me - so I don't need a separate ring lamp for teleconferencing.
And on the far corner of the desk, my Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner in case one of my retirement hobbies would turn out to be digitizing the dozens of shoeboxes filled with old family photos from a previous century.
The headphones are only for midnight hacking, or when the aerialists are being noisy - the rest of the time, I'm streaming to my pair of Sonos Fives.
Lastly, the most important piece of hardware, my Warby Parker Ames spectacles.
Thirdly, to develop iPad apps using graphics / game technologies / augmented reality (hello, again, GPU) in Swift.
Communication
Productivity
To organize my research materials and scraps of text I've accumulated over the years I use DEVONthink.
Browser
Security
Coding & Development
Because my first professional programming language was APL - which has many similarities to GPU programming - and the XCode Metal debugger struck me as futuristic and awesome.
Design
When I need to draw a diagram, I use Omnigraffle.
Media
Amazon Prime Video (iOS)+ 1 other
I watch Amazon Prime Video in the browser on my desktop; I use the app on my iPad.
Other
NYTimes Crosswords (iOS)+ 6 others
And lastly, the New York Times Crossword Puzzle app.