We busy little nerds of Flickr may act and smell like a bunch of psychotic monkey-bots, but beneath our filth-drenched metal exteriors beat the fleshy hearts of a thousand delicate human flowers. We feel, we love.
Ever wondered what keeps us well-oiled? I did, so I asked people, “What do you use to get the job done?”
And this, my dubious friends, is how we (rick)roll.
[flickr_staff_buddy_icon name=straup]
Aaron, Ce sera mauvais français parce que j’ai utilisé l’Internet
You’re still wrong
- Emacs (dired-mode and shell-mode and M-x goto-line)
- Glimpse (and alias grep grep -n -r -e)
- Tabs and virtual workspaces
[flickr_staff_buddy_icon name=bees]
Cal, Baconmeister
Fuck off and die
- shitty pc laptop w/ xp pro
- twin 20″ monitors
- noted
- explorer
- ff & thunderbird
- putty / pageant / plink
- winscp
- cygwin
- msys & mingw
- wireshark
- paint shop pro 5
- miranda
- calc & chamap
- tortoise cvs/svn
- beyond compare
- apache/mysql/php
- ms office w/ visio
- itunes
[flickr_staff_buddy_icon name=revdancatt]
Dan, The Rev.
I don’t do quotes
2 Machine setup;
MacBook Pro for writing code, TextWrangler (off-white Lucida Grande 11pt font on blue background, for reduced eye-strain), Safari & Opera for (final) testing.
PC for testing, with IE6,7,blah + MS Script debugger. Most testing takes place in Firefox + Firebug (cannot live without firebug). Monitor rotated 90 degrees to give Firebug more real estate for hacking around the dom, editing js script on the fly, etc.
Extras:
- Headphones
- Pink noise generator (volume set to one notch down from default) to drown out background noise.
- Ocean Waves generator to take the edge off the pink noise.
- last.fm radio tag search “ambient” to take the edge off the pink noise and ocean waves.
- Quicksilver, to get stuff done quickly.
- Visor for quick terminal access.
- WriteRoom, for taking notes (again off-white text on a blue background).
[flickr_staff_buddy_icon name=dunstan]
Dunstan, He’s like, got a dog and stuff
Mistakenly included on the engineering mailing list for 505 days and counting
- Macbook Pro
- Textmate
- Photoshop
- Transmit
- Safari
- Firefox+Firebug
- IE (in Parallels)
- Quicksilver
[flickr_staff_buddy_icon name=eric]
Eric, Teenage Mutant Ninja Scripta
Please, just work
Powerbook, BBEdit, Perl scripts to manage scp+cvs+Flex+compression, Firefox w/ Firebug and Webdev toolbar, Flex 3 SDK, Terminal, nano, Parallels.
[flickr_staff_buddy_icon name=kellan]
Kellan, Rebellious off-worlder
I’d rather be building cloud castles
MBP, a hot-rodded version of Textmate, QuickSilver+Terminal.app (what’s the Finder?), Thunderbird + keyconfig for threading and archiving, SSHKeychain, grep, awk, tree, QuickProxy for Firefox (2.x), WordPress.com, last.fm, Pandora, and Adium. used to use PHPfi, but less lately.
[flickr_staff_buddy_icon name=murphy_slaw]
Murphy, Secret ops mole
… –force –yes –quiet > /dev/null 2>&1
- MacBook Pro
- iTerm
- vim, kill, screen, awk, rsync, mtr, nmap, strace, gdb
- Wireshark
- SSH Agent
- Thunderbird + Enigmail
- Firefox + Firebug + SwitchProxy + Nagios Checker
- Adium
- Caffeine
- Home Zone
Coming soon: more responses!