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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Syntax Desk Setups

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about their desk setups and how they’ve evolved, both as coders and video and course creators. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Hasura - Sponsor With Hasura, you can get a fully managed, production-ready GraphQL API as a service to help you build modern apps faster. You can get started for free in 30 seconds, or if you want to try out the Standard tier for zero cost, use the code “TryHasura” at this link: hasura.info. We’ve also got an amazing selection of GraphQL tutorials at hasura.io/learn. Show Notes 03:36 - Desk Scott Ikea countertop on Jarvis Legs. Four presets - sit, stand, horse stance, lunge Wes 8" Ikea Butcher Block countertop on legs LackRack on wheels underneath Desk at cottage is Maple Live Edge Slab on Hairpin Legs 09:01 - Chair Scott Steelcase Gesture Wes Polished Aluminum Herman Miller Aeron Roller Blade Wheels! 15:39 - Display Scott Vivo Stand 38" LG Curved Ultrawide Vissles-M, Portable Touchscreen Monitor BenQ Monitor Light Wes LG 32" 4k Ultra HD Dell Ultra HD 4k Monitor Rain Design 10032 mStand Laptop Stand 22:49 - Headphones Scott Ultrasone Wes QC35s w/ Wicked Cushions - wish they charged over Wireless 24:58 - Mouse + Keyboard Scott Keychron K3 with optical Apple Magic Trackpad Wes Apple Magic Keyboard - extended in Space Grey Logitech Mx2 29:18 - Laptop Both MacBook Pro 33:43 - Dock + Connecting it all together Scott Caldigit TS3+ Satechi USB-C Slim Multi-Port with Ethernet Adapter Under desk rack Wes Everything is in a Lackrack Caldigit TS3+ Single Cable Hookup Two monitors 6+ webcams Elgato CamLink 2 HDDs Microphone Amazon Powered USB Hub Startech Rack Mounted Power Strip 41:36 - Camera + Capture Scott Sony a7 iii Elgato CamLink Wes Sony RX100 iii 44:11 - Microphone + Capture Scott Audient Nero Monitor Controller M-Audio BX8 EV RE20 Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 dbx 286s Cloudlifter CL-1 BSW RE320POP Wes Heil PR40 + shock mount, boom arm, pop filter Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 ART EQ 351 dbx 286s BSW RE320POP 49:06 - Lighting Scott Neewer Bi-Color 480 LED Traditional three-point lighting (key, fill, backlight) Philips Hue above for color pop Wes Neewer Bi-Color 480 LED on a Wyze Plug Two Backfill LED Color lights BenQ Screenbar 55:22 - Storage / Backup / Home Server Syntax 220: The Synology Show - Backups and Home Server Scott Synology DS918+ 8TB Wes Synology DS918+ 16TB (DS920+ is the latest) 16TB of drives - I don’t use anywhere NEAR that LaCiE Rugged or WD Passport for Time Machine 57:50 - Other / Wish list Scott ReMarkable 2 tablet Apple Pro Display XDR Wes Mindnode Elgato Stream Deck LG 5K2K Curved Display Links GraphQL Code Generator KeystoneJS BSW Ikea Lack Side Table Better Touch Tool Shameless Plugs Scott: Testing with Cypress - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Advanced React - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there strap yourself in and get ready

0:07.7

Here is Scott to Lensky and West boss. Welcome to syntax. We got the desk boys with you today

0:15.2

We've got an entire

0:17.9

Thierry show on our desk set up

0:21.0

ours has changed a little bit here and there and there's nothing I love more than talking about

0:27.9

Hardware and setups and mice and keyboards and desks and rollerblade wheels all that good stuff

0:35.3

So we're gonna we're gonna go through our setups both as coders as well as

0:41.1

Video and tutorial producers and go through all the gear that we use and and why we use it

0:45.8

We are sponsored by three awesome companies today

0:48.9

First one is sanity structure content CMS second one is log rocket javascript session replay and

0:55.4

Third one is hasura instant graph QL API for your data. We'll talk about all of them partway through the episode

1:02.8

How are you doing today Scott? Yeah, I'm too good. Yeah, I'm too good

1:06.9

I just got my my course out yesterday on Cypress so that feels good

1:10.8

It always feels good to wake up the next morning after the you get a course out because for me

1:16.3

I do it every month or so I'm like

1:19.0

Yeah, okay, it's a breathing room and this next course I have planned I already have it completely

1:24.6

Planned and scripted and ready to go so I'm gonna knock it out very early this month and then just have a ton of time

1:30.3

For planning and coding and working on the level up platform, which man

1:34.1

I am just so excited about where the level up to Taurus coding platform is right now like the code base feels so nice to work in

1:41.4

So I'm just feeling good. How are you doing? It's good good. I'm doing great

1:44.7

We are just about to release my new advanced react and graph QL rerecord that's been like over a year in the making

1:52.8

This thing has had so many moving parts to it because it's such a big course

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