Richard JonesInterview
Developer (Last.fm, IRCCloud)
Adapted from Richard Jones's interview on Uses This, published 28 November 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 use a Logitech MX 518 mouse.
Recently I bought a (UK model Topre Realforce Capacitive Keyboard) mechanical keyboard with proper sprung keys, after reading various blog posts eulogising mechanical keyboards.
I bought a Herman Miller Aeron chair a couple of years ago, it's amazing.
Last year I got a 15 inch MacBook Pro, with 8GB RAM, and the optional higher-res non-glossy screen you can get if you order it online and don't mind waiting 3 weeks for it to arrive.
Communication
I'm currently working on irccloud.com - a unified web-based irc client+bouncer that keeps you connected all the time.
Browser
Four-finger-tap closes tabs in Chrome and other apps.
Coding & Development
Other
In 2002 I founded Audioscrobbler, which ultimately became Last.fm, and was CTO at Last.fm until 2009.
It runs Ubuntu, and judging by the depth of my /home/rj/oldhome/rj/oldhome/rj...
I was intending to put Linux on it, but it turned out OS X is pretty decent.
I would have got the 13 inch version, but the 15 had a substantially better graphics card at the time, and I play Starcraft II on it :)
I'm using the imaginatively named KeyRemap4Macbook to remap the keyboard to the proper UK keyboard layout (Apple has their own crazy idea of what a UK keyboard looks like..).