Will RubyInterview
Designer, photographer, teacher
Adapted from Will Ruby's interview on Uses This, published 15 April 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 have a venerable 2015 15 inch MacBook Pro with the old good keyboard that I use primarily for working.
I also like that it has Thunderbolt ports for things like Black Magic video interfaces and their older cameras.
The Arduboy is also super fun and I've built a few small games for it.
With the current lockdown happening in the world, I've also gotten back into home developing for black and white using the Paterson Super System 4 and Rodinal.
Communication
My class site is built on a nodejs static site generator of my own, and uses JS String Templates as its theme engine, and Markdown and JSON in a folder tree as its data source.
Browser
Coding & Development
I use the built in macOS Terminal.app still pretty happily.
I've recently experimented with OPENRNDR for that sort of work.
Design
Media
For museum stuff, particularly experimenting with cameras and shader pipelines, I use VDMX, though we generally install built native applications.
Other
I'm primarily a web platform person at this point, and really like Glitch, and use it heavily for my classes and also just quick sketches of ideas.