Ubi De FeoInterview
Creative technologist
Adapted from Ubi De Feo's interview on Uses This, published 12 March 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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My daily driver is a MacBook Pro 13" with the butterfly keyboard, and in 3 years I never had a failing key.
In my backpack you'll also find one of the first iPad Pro 12.9", which I absolutely adore but don't use enough.
Also always with me a couple of Raspberry Pi because...
This sort of happened because Apple didn't make a computer for me: I run a BlackMagic capture card for 4K video and a graphic card which I like to update every now and then.
Not long ago Apple finally released the new Mac Pro, which will be one of the things I'll spend money on very soon.
For HDMI recording purposes I also use a MageWell USB Capture card.
Most of the video stuff I work on is controlled by an Elgato Stream Deck XL which is a magical device (I own two).
As video camera I have a Sony a6400 with a couple lenses and a bunch of LED lights, microphones, tripod, etc.
Communication
Productivity
For news reading (I follow over 50 blogs using RSS feeds) I use News Explorer which is from a Dutch developer and works very well.
I have been a user of NetNewsWire for years but it changed way too many owners before it went back into the hands of Brent Simmons but don't feel the urge to just go back yet.
Browser
Notes
Security
Coding & Development
My most used application is probably iTerm2 version 3 (way to confuse people).
I run a fully customised ZSH environment with configuration scripts spread across machines.
Homebrew is my package manager of choice and it helps with all the stuff I need in my shell and more.