Sam KottlerInterview
Site reliability engineer (GitHub)
Adapted from Sam Kottler's interview on Uses This, published 5 September 2017. 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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My main machine is (surprise!) a 13" Retina MacBook Pro.
I use an iPhone 7 too.
My unexpectedly favorite piece of hardware recently is a 10.5" iPad Pro.
Right now I'm using the QC35s and they're fantastic.
Communication
I never thought I'd be able to be so productive on a device I perceived as so limited, but it's turned out to be super useful for writing, planning, sending emails, and talking on Slack.
Browser
Notes
I'm a near-obsessive note taker and heavily rely on OneNote across my iPad, laptop, and desktop.
Coding & Development
I work at GitHub as an engineering manager on the site reliability engineering team, focused on our data centers.
Media
Other
My desktop runs Windows 10 with the Linux subsystem along with most of the same apps I use on macOS.