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Joshua Topolsky's setup
- hollerith 15y agoMost surprising part: he's a journalist, and he uses TextEdit. (Although he uses something else for longer pieces, he mentioned TextEdit first).
- g3orge 15y agoI love TextEdit. I even use it for creating PDFs. Of course it is bare bones but I like that and I don't need fancy features for writing simple text. When I do, I just use vim.
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- hollerith 15y agoLack of ability to display margins (whitespace) (when editing plain text) kills it for me. Lurkers: you know how the occasional web page has text that starts right at the left border of the window? That. Since TextEdit is open source, I could add margins to it, but . . .
- bmj 15y agoI'm not sure that's too surprising. Unlike someone writing papers or books, a journalist generally just hands over text to an editor, and someone else deals with layout, typeface, and so on.
- apl 15y agoUtterly unremarkable. Most of the non-tech posts can be reduced to "MB(A) plus Photoshop/text editor".
- sp332 15y agoThe point of the usesthis.com site is to show what tools people use to really get things done. Josh's post (and some others on the site) proves that you don't need massive or custom setups to get ridiculous amounts of work done.
- borism 15y agoproves that you don't need massive or custom setups to get ridiculous amounts of work done unless you're running 3d rendering farm or massive biologic/physics simulations, why would you? most stuff most people do can be done with any <10year old machine.
- patman81 15y agoI like how Mr. Topolsky's dream setup would be something even more minimal. I wish I could be fully productive with just an iPad (arguably the most minimal device). iOS is not quite there yet, but it's getting closer every year.
- dsr_ 15y agoThe most interesting thing to me was the lag between the interview and posting it. The post date is February 15th; in the interview, Topolsky mentions that he is looking forward to the Galaxy Nexus LTE version. The LTE version was widely available at the end of December. That's when I bought one, in a physical store. I expect that they're managing the speed of release of interviews so that they don't run dry unexpectedly... but it feels like newspaper journalism to me, rather than web speed.
- waferbaby 15y ago'They' = me. :) I feel bad there's such a lag, but publishing three a week (and as a side project) actually ends up being a lot of work, so I've got a backlog I'm trying to work through. Frustrating, but there it is.
- piracynewradio 15y agoI prefer an economy-size hardware footprint. -> How is a highest capacity fully loaded MB Air economical?
- dzhiurgis 15y agoIf you are looking for a backpacks try Delsey. I used one fromaInsect series for more than 5 years, but recently the zipper died (replaced later), so I changed it for new one. It has very sturdy material, absolutely minimalistic design, (although new one has a bit too much sections), expansion possibilities (whenever you need to shop or travel).