Ben Frain Uses
This site
- CMSThis site is built in WordPress
- HostingI host with FastComet. I have been with them a few years now and they have been incredible. Here’s an affiliate link to them; I promise they are great!
Computing Hardware

- Work Computer For the ‘day job’ I use a MacBook Pro 16 attached to an Apple Studio Display.
- Home Computer For personal work, I use a Mac Studio M1 with 32GB memory and a 1TB SSD.
- Monitor40″ Dell 5K2K Ultrawide. It’s one of only a few monitors that suit my needs and has a built in KVM switch – allowing me to use a single keyboard, mouse and ethernet across two systems – so. I can also use it as an external monitor for the work laptop when working from home.
- Keyboard(s) I have a few mechanical keyboards. My daily driver is either a ZSA Moonlander, a Kinesis Advantage360 Pro, a ZSA Voyager, a Cornish Zen, or maybe a Glove80. Truth is, I switch keyboards as often as you likely change your top. I think having a column layout keyboard made learning Colemak easier. I convinced myself learning Colemak would make up for the typing speed I lost after losing a finger in a ring avulsion accident in 2020.
- Mouse I use a Logitech MX Master mouse. This is as close to perfect as I think a mouse gets. I have a 2s version at work and a version 3 at home.
- Printer A Brother HL3170 CDW laser printer. What a revelation owning a laser printer has been. I don’t print a lot, but fannying around with an inkjet is no longer something I concern myself with.
Desk and chair
- Standing Desk The best investment I have made, kit wise, is the Flexispot height adjustable legs with an inexpensive table top from IKEA.
- Chair I use a Haworth Fern.
Text editor, fonts, and utilities
- Text EditorEither Sublime Text or Neovim.
- Theme I use Monokai Pro theme with Sublime and Kanagawa with Neovim.
- Font For editing code I like the Victor Mono font.
- Window Management I use Hookshot/Rectangle Pro for window management.
- Terminal I love Kitty. I’m a fan of the Powerlevel10K ZSH theme.
- Design software In the day job it’s Sketch. For personal stuff I use the Affinity suite.
- Assistant On a Mac I do almost everything via Alfred; I swear by the clipboard memory feature. Raycast is a good, free, alternative but I don’t think it’s quite as good.
- Video Editing I use Final Cut Pro with a 2TB external SSD drive I made with a separate enclosure and a Silicon Power PCIe M.2 NVMe 2TB SSD as a backup.
Social Media
My handle everywhere is @benfrain. Except YouTube where inexplicably they wouldn’t let me have that handle so it is @benfrainuk
Video work
- CameraSony A6300 with a Sigma 16mm F1.4 DC lens.
- Capture Card4K ZasLuke Game Capture card
- Audio Interface Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen
- Speakers PreSonus 3.5 BT.
- Microphone sE7 XLR microphone on a mic arm
- Lighting Neewer remote controlled panel light.