Ryn DanielsInterview
Web operations engineer (Etsy)
Adapted from Ryn Daniels's interview on Uses This, published 18 December 2014. 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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At work I have a 13" MacBook Pro Retina with 256GB SSD and 16GB memory.
Adjustable Folding Ventilated Laptop Table
I have an adjustable laptop stand to keep it at the right height, and a Samsung 22" LCD as an external display.
The Beyerdynamic DT-770-PRO-32 headphones take care of all my music-listening needs at the office.
At home I have a 13" MacBook Air with 128GB SSD and 8GB memory.
It fits a 13" laptop, my 11" Grid-It that's keeping all my cables, adapters, and other miscellany organized, it's water-resistant and very low-profile for easy commuting.
Wireless Presenter R400+ 4 others
When I'm speaking, I use the Logitech R400 wireless presenter.
And of course I couldn't do without my Hue Kard for when I need emergency phone charging.
I also wear a Jawbone UP24 so I can keep track of how being on-call affects my sleep.
Communication
When I need to talk to remote coworkers, I use Vidyo.
Talon for Android takes care of my Twitter habit.
Productivity
When I'm giving talks I use Keynote, upload my slides to Speaker Deck, and get a lot of slide pictures from cat.technology.
I've also been using HabitRPG as a fun to-do list manager and habit builder.
Browser
Security
Coding & Development
I'm Ryn Daniels and I'm a web operations engineer at Etsy.
Code of course gets pushed to GitHub.
Media
Other
Same with the Kindle app, though only for fiction - for non-fiction I still prefer dead tree format!