Waldo JaquithInterview
Designer, developer, director (U.S. Open Data)
Adapted from Waldo Jaquith's interview on Uses This, published 2 June 2016. 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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Most of my work is done on a late 2013 13" Retina MacBook Pro (late 2013 model) hooked up to a basic 24" Dell LCD.
I also maintain a home office where I use a 27" Retina iMac (which I just bought recently, upgrading from a 2009 iMac), with 32 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD.
I also manage to get a surprising amount of work done on my iPhone 6.
My home file server is a Synology DiskStation DS414, with 8 TB of storage.
The other 4 TB is to back up the first 4 TB.) I use a 1 TB Western Digital Passport drive to maintain an offsite backup of my most important data.
I love my ScanSnap S1300i document scanner, which I use to digitize any paper that comes into the house, so that I can toss the paper but keep the information.
All of this is powered with an array of 14 280-watt SolarWorld Sunmodule solar panels, and a corresponding number of Enphase M250 microinverters.
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I manage all of my passwords in 1Password.
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Pushover has been great for allowing my software to tell me when something unexpected or important has happened.