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There are some good articles on there - Andrew "bunnie" Huang[1] shows us how he can be handed a next-day plane ticket and not miss any work time, Jason Rohrer develops games on a seven-year-old laptop[2], Mark Pilgrim explains haw his writing setup isn't actually that important[3].

However, about half of the interviews on there are some variation on "Apple laptop, Apple monitor, standard Apple suite of applications + some others", which does wear thin after a while.

[1] http://andrew.huang.usesthis.com/

[2] http://jason.rohrer.usesthis.com/

[3] http://mark.pilgrim.usesthis.com/




>which does wear thin after a while.

Why would successful people tending to choose a certain brand "wear thin"? What should they be using?


You misunderstand - I don't mind what combination of tools people use to get work done, as long as they're happy with it. But on a site that tries to describe interesting setups, it eventually stops being so interesting.


Aha. Perhaps someone should make a site documenting exotic setups of famous tech people. I know of one Emacs user who has a foot peddle for the control key or something.


Something like so: http://www.xkeys.com/xkeys/xkfoot.php ?

I seem to remember one of my friends saying that someone at their work uses a foot peddle for Esc (as a vim user).




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