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Pierre Nel

Freelance Developer and Designer from London

Pierre Nel is a developer / designer unicorn that freelanced in London for 10+ years, before moving back to Scarborough, Cape Town - a seaside conservation village at the southern tip of Africa.

Twitter → twitter.com/pierre_nel

Workspace Hardware & Tools

  • Custom Ryzentosh build running MacOS Big Sur - specs over here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VpjJqp

  • 27” Dell display / 27” 4k LG Ultrafine display

  • Anne Pro 2 keyboard with Gateron Brown switches

  • Logitech M720 Triathlon mouse

  • Audyssey Lower East Side speakers

  • Herman Miller Aeron chair

  • Samsung Story 1.5Tb external drive

  • iPad Mini

Other bits

  • Robot City by Paul Collicutt - http://www.paulcollicutt.com/robot-city

  • The Most We Can Do Is Our Best by David Pearson - https://a-g-i.org/user/davidpearson/view/projects/

  • Modernism in the UK by Studio.Build -

  • https://studio.build/

  • Coffee by Truth Cape Town

  • Locutus of Borg

Software

  • Figma

  • Eagle

  • Obsidian

  • Obsidian Kanban plugin

  • Visual Studio Code

  • Doom Emacs

  • Raycast

  • Kitty terminal with tmux

  • Canary Mail

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