Matte Noble, a Partner Engineer at Sentry, uses Vim as his primary text editor for coding, supplemented by plugins like Control P for file searching and Jira for issue tracking. He relies on GitHub for code deployment and Dropbox Paper for daily and weekly to-do lists. To minimize distractions, Matte limits himself to checking email only three times a day, scheduling these checks around lunch and afternoon breaks. He also prefers using Slack's tabbed interface over traditional tabs, allowing him to context-switch more efficiently between tasks.