Uses

The things I use weekly, if not daily – the tools behind the work, the photographs, and this site.

Last updated June 20, 2026

I split this list the way I split my expenses at tax time. Everything here is either a hard good or a soft good. A hard good is something durable, a capital purchase, something I expect to keep for years. A soft good is either a consumable or something that can change over time as I use it.

Hard Goods

• MacBook Pro (M4 Pro)
  Where everything gets made: code, photographs, videos, and this site. Fast enough to stay out of the way, which is all I ask.
• Leica M4
  It's the Leica that most people don't realize is a Leica (it doesn't have the red dot), which is fine by me. It's a completely mechanical beauty from 1969 West Germany.
• Hasselblad 203FE
  I know it's not the golden ratio, but I love square format. This is the first reliable medium format camera I have owned, and it has a 1/2000 shutter speed.
• Canon RP
  It's not what most people do, but I use this for video. I also use it to digitize my negatives.
• Gossen DIGIFLASH 2
  The batteries don't last long, but it easily fits in my pocket and it is handier than a light meter app.
• Omega D-2 Enlarger
  A beast of a machine that can enlarge from 8x11 all the way up to 4x5.
• Røde Wireless GO II / III
  Clip-on wireless mics that always work.
• Zojirushi bottle (2014)
  The coffee still stays hot, hot enough that I don't drink directly from it. It has a few dents now, but it's still working.

Soft Goods

• iTerm2
  I'm always in a terminal, and I usually have more than one pane open on more than one tab. It works more reliably than in-editor consoles, especially if your terminal font has ligatures.
• asdf
  One version manager for every language. It's just convenient.
• Zed
  My default editor when I'm not driving from the terminal.
• Claude Code
  An agentic coding assistant that lives in the terminal.
• GitHub
  Where the code lives. I've been on it since I fled SVN.
• Docker
  Old, expected, and a little slow now – but still how I keep dev environments honest and reproducible.
• Things
  A todo app with exactly the right amount of structure. Life is complicated enough without my task list adding to it.
• Final Cut Pro
  Native, fast, and good enough that I never went looking for more.
• f8 Develop
  My own macOS app for inverting camera-scanned film negatives into finished positives. I use it on every roll I shoot. develop.atf8.app
• News Explorer
  How I read the web on my terms – RSS, synced across every Apple device, no algorithm deciding what I see.
• Kodak ColorPlus 200
  My everyday color film. Inexpensive, forgiving, and it just looks like film.
• Kodak T-MAX 100
  When I want black and white, this is it – fine grain and plenty of detail to enlarge.

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This is a /uses page – a snapshot of the gear and software behind the work. It changes as the work does.