Tim BrayInterview
Developer Advocate (Google)
Adapted from Tim Bray's interview on Uses This, published 8 May 2010. 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 just got a new 13" MacBook Pro; small and light and with an SSD.
In the living room at home we have a big honkin' dual-quad-core Mac Pro meat-grinder, a couple years old now, for media work.
I take digital audio out through a Benchmark DAC1 USB; the sound is wonderful.
At home we have a NEC 2690 display that I bought on James Duncan Davidson's recommendation, carefully color-corrected; it makes our pictures and videos look much better than they really are.
For many years, off in the back rooms at Sun I had a SPARC T2000 that I use to run concurrency experiments of one kind and another.
I carry around a Nexus One Android phone.
Communication
Productivity
I pay for Spanning Sync, thus my contacts and schedule up to date on the Mac, on Google, and on the Android phone.
Browser
Coding & Development
Terminal.app with a beige background and 12 point Courier New Bold.
Media
Lightroom for photos with some Photoshop Elements.
I use doubleTwist to move music from the Mac to the Android; it's only OK.