Our Office Setups (Gotta Get The Gear)
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes talk office setups and all things gear. Gotta get the gear!
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Show Notes
11:00
13:30 - Computer
- Wes: Macbook Pro 15"
- Scott: Macbook Pro 15"
17:39 - Monitors
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Wes:
- [22" vertical Cheap Acer: https://amzn.to/2vkXomG
- [27" Dell 4k - https://amzn.to/2Mo3NnO
- [Ergotron Monitor Arms - https://amzn.to/2voS9CF
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Scott:
28:33 - Keyboards and Mice
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Wes:
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Scott:
33:14 - Desks
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Wes:
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Scott:
- Ikea Karlby Walnut Countertop + Jarvis Legs === dope desk!
37:53 - Chairs
39:24 - Headphones
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Wes:
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Scott:
- AKG K 553 Pro
- M-Audio Bx8 monitors
- Polk Audio 12” Subwoofer for that booom booom!
43:50 - Hard Drives / Backup Systems
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Wes:
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Scott:
47:28 - Charging Stations
48:52 - USB Splitters
50:35 - Wifi
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Wes:
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Scott:
54:26 - Recording Gear
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Check out episode 037 for a full rundown of all of our recording gear
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Wes:
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Scott:
58:32 - Misc
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Wes:
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Scott:
- Google Home
- Smart outlet that shuts off all my stuff
- topodesigns.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello everybody and welcome to Syntax. Today we're going to be talking about |
| 0:14.4 | gear got to get the gear have you seen that Portlandia episode where do you watch |
| 0:17.9 | Portlandia oh yeah yeah so there's like this these characters in Portlandia that they do where they get the gear and every time they're like, oh, let's go on a hike. |
| 0:27.4 | And then they spend like all day getting all the gear and all the flashlights and all the hydration packs and everything is hilarious because my wife and I always make that joke like gotta get the gear |
| 0:37.3 | It's so whenever we have anything new but we're gonna be talking about like office gear like what are our setups, everything from monitors to chairs to desk, |
| 0:45.4 | Scott just redid his whole office, so we've got a lot to say and it's funny it's one of these things that |
| 0:50.9 | I actually get a lot of questions about you |
| 0:52.6 | so really think it like it doesn't really matter at the end of the day all that much but |
| 0:56.2 | people love chit-chatting about the gear so that's that's what we're gonna do |
| 1:00.1 | it today we haven't Scott and I haven chatted in about two weeks so how you doing |
| 1:04.4 | Scott? Do good hey just a released a new series on graph QL so it's a like a |
| 1:10.4 | react in Apollo client series so it was hard at work getting that out and |
| 1:15.4 | making that happen I've made some major code updates to the level up to HUD site |
| 1:19.2 | just been doing a lot of head in code getting work done you know that's that's been it for me I know you've been on a bit of a vacation which is wonderful you tell us a little bit about your |
| 1:31.6 | also you went to Larricon too. |
| 1:33.4 | So we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:35.1 | Two weeks ago, I went to Larracon, which was a Larrabel conference. |
| 1:40.0 | And it was in Chicago at this amazing museum. it was awesome I met so many people pretty much |
| 1:46.0 | anyone who walked up to me was like hey listen to Synthax it's awesome big fan of the show so I thought that was really cool that you actually get to meet the people that |
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