Rose PeckInterview
Software developer
Adapted from Rose Peck's interview on Uses This, published 30 January 2026. 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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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (16 cores, hyperthreaded)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (LHR)
The second computer is a MacBook Pro, provided to me by my company.
2?: Keychron Q0 Max with the same switches.
Uni-ball ONE P, with a Pentel LRN5-V refill: The ONE P is much more comfortable in my hand than I thought it would be, and it can fit a wide variety of refills.
Mark One by Studio Neat, with the recommended Schmidt P8126 refill: The click action on this pen is very satisfying, and the metal barrel is very classy and well made overall.
The Rotring 800: This was one of the first "nice" writing implements I bought and it stood the test of time.
The Tombow MONO Graph Shaker: There are a surprising amount of gimmick mechanical pencils, and this is one of them.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
The main piece of software I work on is a digital-twinning, mining CAD application written in Rust.
This is a more traditional CAD appliation written in JavaScript.
The other benefit of the Windows box is that it has an NVIDIA GPU, which is required to run CUDA.
VS Code: Code editor of choice.
Each release they add new GitHub Copilot features, and each release I turn them off.
Media
Other
OS: Windows 10 Pro (Yes I know it's past the end of service.
f.lux: Flux has been around for over a decade and no one has beaten it yet.
AutoHotKey: AHK lets you define custom keyboard shortcuts and scripts.
Karabiner Elements: This is essentially a macOS version of AutoHotKey.
AltTab: Staying on theme, this is an alternate alt-tab solution that works more like Windows.