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alternatively, see https://usesthis.com/ - "a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done" ongoing since january 2009

some somewhat notable interviews have been submitted before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=usesthis.com

e.g., aaron swartz[1]: https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/

1: his reference of using the MPW 9 font led me towards the discovery of the monaco 9pt bitmap font - curious if it's still around

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Another one is https://workspaces.xyz , although it's more interesting to see the actual spaces where some people work. Some are hilariously clean and staged, while others look like they were taken mid escape with a go-bag. Unfortunately they're becoming more like a way of marketing tbh, but the sheer amount of posts on it are interesting nonetheless. (The number of people working in crypto is also hilarious.)

I had a period where I read every interview there, it was so cool to read about peoples tech stacks. I kind of fell off as it seemed like it ended up being more interviews with non-tech people than tech-people which removed some of the interest and utility for me. Got to revisit that site.

i tend to find the non-tech interviews the most interesting for the remoteness of the tools so to speak, e.g., coming across tools like https://www.wonderdraft.net/, a fantasy map creation tool, and thinking it's rather neat

I find them interesting too because tech people tend to just all have the latest and greatest hardware, while a lot of non-tech people are getting by on bizarre clunkers and set-ups which have more novelty value.

I did one a few years ago. https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.lee/

Glad to see they’re still doing them. My stack has completely changed since.

You should consider asking if they'd like an update! I'm sure they'd love to see how things have changed in the past ~6 years, and readers would enjoy it too :)

Good idea! I’ll reach out

I compared some all-time favorite programming fonts last week; you might enjoy that write-up :) ( I tried not to be too biased towards Fira Code as well as JetBrains and Julia Mono )

https://jdsalaro.com/blog/best-programming-fonts/

I also got quite a few suggestions on Mastodon and Tildes, which were added retroactively.

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