Rich SiegelInterview
Developer and co-founder, Bare Bones Software
Adapted from Rich Siegel's interview on Uses This, published 15 August 2011. 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 believe that every hard drive is destined to fail, so I have a 2x1TB LaCie 2big Quadra configured as a mirrored pair, for backups.
My laptop is a late-2010 13-inch MacBook Air, in the top-of-the-line configuration: 2.13GHz, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD.
The desktop and laptop share a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display.
A Gefen dual-link DVI KVM handles the switching.
:-) So, I have a Unicomp "Customizer 104".
My current favorite is actually a gaming mouse: the Razer Mamba.
I also have a 2006 Mac Pro (which was actually my main workstation before I upgraded), configured as a server with a Promise SmartStor DS4600 desktop RAID.
All of this is powered by the output of a Jura Capresso F9 automated espresso machine.
Communication
Productivity
Finally, I couldn't live without LaunchBar.
Browser
My everyday browser is Google Chrome.
Coding & Development
By day, I write code (I'm the creator of and engineering lead for BBEdit), supervise our software engineering efforts (with the assistance of two African Grey parrots that share my home office), and coordinate marketing and public relations.
Media
I also dump in images that don't belong in iPhoto, passwords that I don't want (or need) in my keychain, and a bunch of other random stuff.
Storage
This functions as a Time Machine server for my workstation and laptop, as well as "cold storage" for the household.
SuperDuper! is a critical part of my software setup.
Other
The mouse/pad setup works out pretty well for my World of Warcraft play, as well.
Right next to BBEdit and Chrome in my dock is Yojimbo, another one of our products.