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A photograph of a messy work desk, with a laptop raised ona stand, a large screen with sticky notes hanging off it, a keyboard, a trackball, headphones on a stand, books and notebooks, and various assorted items.
The home office setup.

Equipment I use

I’ve been a sucker for tools for as long as I can remember. I love to peek at people’s processes, and what tools they use always make me curious. If you share your screen with me on a video call, I will for sure be staring at the icons in your dock and your menu bar, at the bookmarks in your browser and at the tabs you have open, and completely lose track of the conversation. Sorry about that!

This is an incomplete list and will be updated.

Computers

Hardware

  • MacBook Air (M2, 2022), 24 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD. The best dang computer I have ever owned.
  • LG Ultrafine 5K display. Going strong 8 years after its purchase, with only the webcam showing its age
  • ZSA Planck EZ keyboard, with Cherry MX Silent Red switches
  • Logitech MX Ergo S trackball
  • Airpods Max headphones (at the desk, for music)
  • Earpods USB-C earbuds (at the desk, for calls)
  • Airpods Pro (2nd gen) earbuds (on the go)
  • Pablo Designs Link desk lamp

Software

  • macOS: desktop OS
  • OpenBSD: server OS
  • Emacs: programming, writing, project management, knowledge base management, general purpose operating system
  • Ghostty: terminal emulator
  • Arc Firefox: Web browser
  • Things: personal task management
  • NetNewsWire: RSS reader
  • Phanpy: Mastodon client

Cameras

Film

  • Leica M6 0.72 (Leitz logo) with Summicron 35mm f/2 (Mark IV)
  • Mamiya RZ-67 Pro II with Sekor-Z 90mm f/3.5 + Zinstax NONS Instant back for Instax Square film
  • MiNT SLR670-S (upgraded Polaroid SX-70)
  • Olympus Mju II
  • Konica Genba Kantoku 28WB (my daughter’s camera)

Digital

  • Ricoh GR III
  • Leica Q2
  • Fujifilm GFX 50S with 45mm lens
  • iPhone 17 Pro

Tripods

  • Peak Design travel tripod (Aluminium). A really great and really compact tripod.

Stationery

  • MD Paper Notebook Journal Codex A5
  • Rotring Rapid Pro 0.5mm mechanical pencil
  • Tombow 8900 HB pencils (for writing)
  • Staedtler Mars Lumograph B & 2B pencils (for sketching)
  • Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 colour pencils
  • Tombow MONO eraser
  • Blackwing portable sharpener
  • Copic Multiliner SP 0.3 and 0.03mm pigment ink pens
  • Pentel Black and Gray brush pens
  • MD Paper fountain pen
  • LAMY pico (288-laserorange)