I don’t just mean a wrench, unless thats it for you. I mean any tool you regularly use for work that you consider your most important. If you’re a software person name whatever digital tool you guys use. Whatever the career everyone uses tools I dont care if they are digital, verbal, physical or psychological. For me its honestly probably a flashlight, before I use any tools I’m always investigating with my flashlight or using a laser to trace lines.
A scratch owl. At the leather shop I used that bastard for everything.
OpenProject. Great tool for project management and usual organizational operations. Also, it’s European, libre and have interface (partly) in Esperanto.
IntelliJ IDEA
It’s an IDE, a highly featureful code editor.
A lot of programmers like to use more basic text editors and pile on plugins. I feel bad for them when they share some new plugin they’re excited about and it’s a feature that’s been in IntelliJ forever and they had to put extra work in to get it. And so many other users of that editor don’t even know what’s possible.
Regularly use for work? Scalpel blades. My job would be essentially impossible without them.
What do you do?
I get every organ or piece of tissue that is removed from you during surgery. I cut up the tissue so it can be made into slides for the pathologist (a type of physician) to render a diagnosis.
How finely do you cut your steak at a restaurant? I’m imagining you cutting very fine slices and savoring them one by one.
Lol!! Believe it or not, I hate cutting my food!
Because…
- I’m lazy
- When you’re used to using ultra sharp knives, things like steak knives feel so incredibly dull that it’s infuriating/“difficult”. At work, I go through scalpel blades like candy. A sharp blade is always key for my work!
Caffeine.
My brain :p
Did you just call yourself a tool?
if you want to put the sense of self in the brain - yeah, why not? :)
My drawing assets. Drawing diagrams to explain things makes my life so much easier
Do you draw digitally or pen and paper? If the latter, do you have specific utensils you like?
I do both but perfer digital because i hate the marks of shame
The browser. A surprising amount of my billable hours is googling the manual of some obscure thing someone else sold our customer and they want to feed the signal to our system and then reading aloud how they connect the thing.
Give me ssh, vi, bash and Linux kernel and I can get work done.
Excel.
Its like magic from the math gods.
I’d say my brain or my computer, but in reality it’s my motivation to focus for a hot minute. So many distractions!
Tape measure probably.
Back when I was doing plumbing only, the two hand tools that I used by far the most were Knipex Cobra pliers and adjustable wrench.
My computer, my hand, and my ability to discern and call out bullshit.
Job Access With Speech.
My glasses, for sure. Next would be my bike, as I use it to get around everywhere. Third most important is probably my keyboard at work, or a pencil.
God damn I didn’t even consider glasses
