Victor Hanson-SmithInterview
Computational biologist
Adapted from Victor Hanson-Smith's interview on Uses This, published 24 September 2021. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
I currently use an iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015.
When I travel, I use a 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2017.
I work on an Uplift V2 standing desk.
Sitting beside my iMac, I have an IPEVO VZ-R document camera.
Productivity
I give a lot of presentations, and I am currently using Keynote v10.1.
I use Asana to help the team stay organized around project deadlines.
Coding & Development
I seem to always have a couple Terminal windows open, connected to Linux EC2 instances in our AWS cloud.
In these situations, I like to run htop in Linux and monitor resource usage.
Design
I currently use Adobe Illustrator v25.3.1 to apply finishing touches to scientific visualizations, especially when it's intended for external audiences or a publication.
Storage
Other
Amazon Web Services+ 16 others
My work---and my team's work---frequently involves computational analysis requiring supercomputing resources, which we accomplish using hardware on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
My desktop iMac runs OSX 10.14.6.