Tom MacWrightInterview
Developer, musician
Adapted from Tom MacWright's interview on Uses This, published 7 November 2020. 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 - and this is embarrassing to admit - two nearly identical late-2019 16" MacBook Pros, one for work and other as my personal laptop.
I also use a Draft/Matic mechanical pencil for sketching before inking, and the essential super Hi-polymer erasers for making that phase invisible.
Most of the photos on the Pen-F use Panasonic lenses like their LUMIX G 25mm, which are affordable and great.
At home, I spend more time with my banjo, an Enoch Tradesman which I found secondhand, slightly customized by its previous owner.
Productivity
Notes
Coding & Development
It's much more power than I need for anything, though they were helpful when I was diving into the Rust programming language.
neovim lives in iTerm2, which George has been steadily improving for a decade.
Design
Figma does the job for quick vector graphics on the blog and prototyping at work.
Media
For photos, I switched to Capture One a few years ago and have never looked back: it's super organized and powerful.
The process of publishing photos is a little complicated but the most important part is VIPS, which handles resizing and converting images.
I've tried a lot of digital audio workstations but always return to GarageBand.