What I Use

I get a lot of questions asking me what I use and/or recommend in the technology realm, so I thought I would take some time and answer that question here. I’ll lead in by saying I’m not a gammer, so if you’re looking for a gaming-machine this is not the article you are looking for.

Laptop

Dell XPS 13, i7 QuadCore 8GB ram, 250GB HDD.

2009 MacBook Pro with a 13” display with dual core processor, 8GB of ram and 500GB HDD.

Desktop

At work I run a pair of Dell Optiplex 960s Each with a Quad core i7 processor and 16gb of ram, each machine boots to a 64gb SSD with a 1TB HDD. One machine boots to Windows 7 (mostly for access to enteprise stuff) and the other Ubuntu Linux. Both machines run a number virtual machines and local servers.

Keyboard & Mouse

Logitech K740

Logitech m705

Phone and Mobile Internet

A 64gb iPhone SE

Accesories

Lifeproof case

Plantronics BackBeat GO 2.

Crossbrowser testing

Browserstack

Servers and Infrastrucutre

DigitalOcean, Rackspace, AWS, CloudFlare, MongoDB.

Virtualizaiton

VMWARE Fusion and VMWARE Workstation, Virtualbox is a great alternative.

Privacy and Encryption

Lastpass

VeraCrypt

Tor

Office Software

Google Docs

Editors and IDEs

VIM

Atom