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My name is Cassidy and I'm a software engineer, advisor, developer advocate, investor, and mimer on the Internet and this is what's in my doc. So firstly, for my devices, I use a custom built Windows PC where I hodgepodge together all of the different parts as time goes on. A 2021 MacBook Pro and a 2018 iPad Pro. My day to day involves a lot of coding, meetings, and general writing.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>For coding, I use Versus Code. I do also use Vim but the extensions in Versus Code are so good, I use it for most things. For bookmarks, I use Raindrop. Raindrop is great for saving things I want to read. I get full text search of all the things that I'm saving and I can just save it across all devices.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>For task tracking, I use to do meter which is actually an app that I built myself. It's just a to do list but you can pause tasks for later and it has a progress bar. And I like gamifying things and the progress bar is really great. For flow state style work, I really like to use the Suka. It's a really great app that yells at you if you get a little bit off track and it also has flow state music, task tracking and a bunch of other just nice things to keep you accountable.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I also use Dabble Me for journaling, which it just emails you every single day saying how was your day and I can quickly respond. And it's nice to have something that kind of prompts you easily, and then it just saves it for you. And then it also reminds you what you wrote a long time ago. But if there's one tool that I couldn't live without, it's probably Obsidian. It's honestly a glorified markdown editor, but it has so much more than that.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Because beyond just editing markdown files and saving it to your computer, it has a plugin system that's open and I've added so many plugins that it's just nice things where for example, you can add Kanban boards to set up project management. It has a data view where you can query your notes as if it's like an SQL database, but it's just your notes. It has templates where, for example, when I write my newsletter, I can have a newsletter template. Or when I wanna write a blog, I have a blog template. And it just has all of the structure built in.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>It has a graph view so you can see how your notes are together. And then you can also backlink between your notes. And so it creates a sort of wiki for all of your notes together. It's a really really powerful piece of software that I truly use every day for most things. For brain storming, I use a tool called Brain Story.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Now full disclosure, it's something that my team built but it's a tool that helps you think through your ideas and get feedback on them. It's not generative AI but it's really great for just talking out a side project, a talk, a blog post, anything that you want to think a little bit more about and get feedback on. I listen to a lot of show tunes. I just love it when people are belting. And I like to think that I can belt with them even though I can't.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>But it's really fun to listen to that while I'm coding. It feels powerful. But if I really need to focus, it's much more like spacey lo fi type thing so I don't pay attention to the music. I have a bunch of hardware on my desk. Keyboards are probably the main one that I could talk about where I have a bunch of custom mechanical keyboards.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I have some behind me. I've got a bunch all over the place. And I really love building them and just kind of rotating out which keyboard I use day to day. But besides that I have some speakers when I'm really just playing loud music. I've got a shure mv7 microphone and I have a Sony a61100 as my camera.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I really love laser cutting and kind of crafting making cool things. And I play a lot of guitar as well and really like to arrange some music. And so for laser cutting, I use a tool called Affinity Designer that lets me edit vectors and then put them into a machine. And then I use a tool called the guitar pro for arranging and reading guitar music. I have a notebook with me at all times where I just kind of write and sketch out little ideas where I don't wanna pull out some kind of diagramming software.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And I just wanna say here's where this goes over here and just kind of planning out something a bit more visually. And that is the software, hardware, and analog tools that I use. You can find me on the internet at cassid00, c a s s I d o o on most things, and I look forward to seeing you on the internet. Bye.\u003C/p>","Hi. My name is Cassidy and I'm a software engineer, advisor, developer advocate, investor, and mimer on the Internet and this is what's in my doc. So firstly, for my devices, I use a custom built Windows PC where I hodgepodge together all of the different parts as time goes on. A 2021 MacBook Pro and a 2018 iPad Pro. My day to day involves a lot of coding, meetings, and general writing. For coding, I use Versus Code. I do also use Vim but the extensions in Versus Code are so good, I use it for most things. For bookmarks, I use Raindrop. Raindrop is great for saving things I want to read. I get full text search of all the things that I'm saving and I can just save it across all devices. For task tracking, I use to do meter which is actually an app that I built myself. It's just a to do list but you can pause tasks for later and it has a progress bar. And I like gamifying things and the progress bar is really great. For flow state style work, I really like to use the Suka. It's a really great app that yells at you if you get a little bit off track and it also has flow state music, task tracking and a bunch of other just nice things to keep you accountable. I also use Dabble Me for journaling, which it just emails you every single day saying how was your day and I can quickly respond. And it's nice to have something that kind of prompts you easily, and then it just saves it for you. And then it also reminds you what you wrote a long time ago. But if there's one tool that I couldn't live without, it's probably Obsidian. It's honestly a glorified markdown editor, but it has so much more than that. Because beyond just editing markdown files and saving it to your computer, it has a plugin system that's open and I've added so many plugins that it's just nice things where for example, you can add Kanban boards to set up project management. It has a data view where you can query your notes as if it's like an SQL database, but it's just your notes. It has templates where, for example, when I write my newsletter, I can have a newsletter template. Or when I wanna write a blog, I have a blog template. And it just has all of the structure built in. It has a graph view so you can see how your notes are together. And then you can also backlink between your notes. And so it creates a sort of wiki for all of your notes together. It's a really really powerful piece of software that I truly use every day for most things. For brain storming, I use a tool called Brain Story. Now full disclosure, it's something that my team built but it's a tool that helps you think through your ideas and get feedback on them. It's not generative AI but it's really great for just talking out a side project, a talk, a blog post, anything that you want to think a little bit more about and get feedback on. I listen to a lot of show tunes. I just love it when people are belting. And I like to think that I can belt with them even though I can't. But it's really fun to listen to that while I'm coding. It feels powerful. But if I really need to focus, it's much more like spacey lo fi type thing so I don't pay attention to the music. I have a bunch of hardware on my desk. Keyboards are probably the main one that I could talk about where I have a bunch of custom mechanical keyboards. I have some behind me. I've got a bunch all over the place. And I really love building them and just kind of rotating out which keyboard I use day to day. But besides that I have some speakers when I'm really just playing loud music. I've got a shure mv7 microphone and I have a Sony a61100 as my camera. I really love laser cutting and kind of crafting making cool things. And I play a lot of guitar as well and really like to arrange some music. And so for laser cutting, I use a tool called Affinity Designer that lets me edit vectors and then put them into a machine. And then I use a tool called the guitar pro for arranging and reading guitar music. I have a notebook with me at all times where I just kind of write and sketch out little ideas where I don't wanna pull out some kind of diagramming software. And I just wanna say here's where this goes over here and just kind of planning out something a bit more visually. And that is the software, hardware, and analog tools that I use. You can find me on the internet at cassid00, c a s s I d o o on most things, and I look forward to seeing you on the internet. 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I use an Apple M2 MacBook Pro as my main work machine.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I use an iPhone 15 Pro Max, even though I don't update my phone that often, and I've got Apple Watch SE. I also use 4 HomePods to automate my life and home environment around me, and I use a custom PC build for live streaming. As well as writing code, my day to day involves a lot of live streaming and tech content creation. For live streaming on Twitch, I use a custom build PC and you can see all of the components that I built into that on my website. And I also use a lot of hardware peripherals.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I'm fully in the Elgato ecosystem, so I use 2 Elgato KeyLite Airs, a Stream Deck XL, a WaveOne USB mic, a capture card to capture my Mac output to my PC when I'm streaming, and to the Cam Link 4 k. My camera is a Sony Zed V 1, and I use 2 other Logitech webcams for different camera angles that the chat on stream can trigger to view as well. I also recently got an Elgato prompter as well, which I'm using to talk to you right now, and I would highly recommend it. As for the hardware that I use when I write code, I love using my Mistel Barocco split keyboard. It's actually one of the rarer UK ISO layouts, and it's got some cherry milkshake weirdo key caps on it, which I love looking at.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And I set it up with my Apple trackpad in the middle so I'm not moving my shoulders around all the time in the day. And the software I use when I'm live streaming is OBS. I pipe music in using a service called Pretzel Rocks. I use all of the Elgato software for the peripherals, so there's the control center, the Stream Deck software, etcetera, and the Wavelink software. I also use another tool called ATEM.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>It connects, Twitch to OBS and allows me to make things happen on my stream via Twitch channel point redemptions without me needing to write any code. But speaking of writing code, I do have a very large custom setup that I wrote in order to power all of the things that happen on my stream. It's a back end in express and node, connects to a front end built in react, even shares a types package if you want to get nerdy. And so everything I do is a combination of things that happen using Atum, my custom Twitch bot, and all of the software around it. And now for the software that I use in my day to day coding.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I try to keep things as simple as possible and not overwhelm myself with tool fatigue. I'm saying that though, but the list I'm gonna read out is pretty, pretty long. However, I use Versus Code as my main coding IDE. I keep it really simple and I have like a custom setup where I hide the sidebars and all the different activity feeds and things, and I just want a blank canvas to be able to code on. I use iTerm2 as my terminal or the inbuilt terminal in Versus Code, and I try to manage as many of my dependency packages as possible on my machine using Homebrew.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So I'll install node and anything else I need via Homebrew. The main browser I use is Arc. I recently converted to Arc last year. It kind of feels like an app rather than a browser, and that's what I like about it. It's built on Chromium.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So if you're familiar with Chrome, it does everything that Chrome does with a few extra little details on top. And I make sure to use, the browsers like Safari and Firefox as well if I'm gonna test out what I'm building. I replaced Spotlight on a Mac with Raycast. I don't think I'm using it to its full potential, but I do have some pretty cool commands that I use to, like, get my clipboard history up if I miss click on command c and v, and that one's really helpful and it's just nice to look at. I currently use rectangle for window management.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I actually recently switched from spectacle to rectangle last year. I'm still getting used to the key binds for rectangle because there are a lot, but I would recommend it. And on the subject of content creation, I found a really cool app that allows you to hide app icons in your Mac top toolbar when you're doing screen recordings for videos, and that's called vanilla. For day to day video editing, I either use ScreenFlow on my personal MacBook or I use Adobe Premiere Pro on my work MacBook. And one bit of software I couldn't live without is Meeting Bar.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Now this sits at the top of my Mac screen toolbar, and it allows me to consolidate events across as many calendars as I need. And I manage 3 calendars in my day to day, and it's really helpful to give me, a quick glance at what's coming up next in my day. Finally, I recently switched from Trello to Notion for task management last year. Since I started using Notion at work, I began to get more familiar with it and how useful it is to have databases of tasks and other things. Like, I use it to manage my newsletter and everything I need to do for Twitch and all the miscellaneous things I need to do in my life.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The music I listen to when I work actually really depends on my mood. Sometimes I like to put lo fi vibes on in the background. When I really need to work through a difficult problem, I actually like to put metal core on and, like, thrash around a little bit. Unfortunately, the new Spotify Daylist has kind of polluted my algorithm because in the morning when I'm lazy and just wanna want to put something on, I'll put the day list on and it's generally lo fi kind of atmospheric kind of stuff, which is great. But now that's all Spotify recommends me.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So they need like a button to say, like, don't include this in my algorithm, please. I think one of the most interesting pieces of hardware that I use, especially for me because I didn't know this was a thing. And when I got it as a thing, I was like, why haven't I ever used this before? And it seems weird, but it is a light bar for my screen. I use the BenQ ScreenBar Halo because they were kind enough to send me one, and now I just couldn't live without it.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>It illuminates my space in the dark when, you know, in the UK it's very dark in the winter, isn't it? And, having this screen bar just gives me a little bit more joy in my life. I don't know what it is. It just gives me life, and I always notice if I forget to turn it on. So I like my hobbies to be as non tech based as possible.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And my two main hobbies in my life right now are cross stitch and learning the drums. I first started doing cross stitch a year ago in January 2023, and I'm currently working on my second very big piece and I started learning the drums in September 2023 And I don't need to use any software or tools for my cross stitch, but one of the things that I love using for my drum practice is a piece of software called the amazing Slow Downer. Now this allows you to slow down or speed up music and backing tracks without affecting the quality of the audio. And whilst you can do the same thing with a digital audio workstation tools, such as Pro Tools and Logic and and whatnot, this is a really simple interface to allow you to scroll up and down for the speed of the track, and you can also change the pitch and things. You import music, and you're good to go.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And it works on, desktop and other devices such as iPads and phones. I would highly recommend the amazing Slow Downer if you are learning anything that you can play to a backing track. The thing that's important to me for some reason to keep analog is my weekend to do list. I write all of the chores and random jobs on a scrap piece of paper in the kitchen. I put little check boxes next to each item and I tick them off gradually.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>My son and my husband are involved obviously in the weekend to do list as well, so they get to tick things off when they do things and we leave it in the kitchen. Sometimes it's stuck to the chalkboard thing we've got and it's just a nice break from doing everything digitally in the week. And sometimes it's just nice to keep things in your hand and and remember how to write with a pen, you know? So that's the hardware, software, and analog tools that I use to run my life. Find me on the Internet everywhere as white panther.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>That's white p 4nth 3r if you use a screen reader. Thanks for joining me, and, I'll see you somewhere.\u003C/p>","Hi. My name's Salma. I'm a live streamer, software engineer, and developer educator, and this is what's in my dock. Firstly, my devices. I use an Apple M2 MacBook Pro as my main work machine. I use an iPhone 15 Pro Max, even though I don't update my phone that often, and I've got Apple Watch SE. I also use 4 HomePods to automate my life and home environment around me, and I use a custom PC build for live streaming. As well as writing code, my day to day involves a lot of live streaming and tech content creation. For live streaming on Twitch, I use a custom build PC and you can see all of the components that I built into that on my website. And I also use a lot of hardware peripherals. I'm fully in the Elgato ecosystem, so I use 2 Elgato KeyLite Airs, a Stream Deck XL, a WaveOne USB mic, a capture card to capture my Mac output to my PC when I'm streaming, and to the Cam Link 4 k. My camera is a Sony Zed V 1, and I use 2 other Logitech webcams for different camera angles that the chat on stream can trigger to view as well. I also recently got an Elgato prompter as well, which I'm using to talk to you right now, and I would highly recommend it. As for the hardware that I use when I write code, I love using my Mistel Barocco split keyboard. It's actually one of the rarer UK ISO layouts, and it's got some cherry milkshake weirdo key caps on it, which I love looking at. And I set it up with my Apple trackpad in the middle so I'm not moving my shoulders around all the time in the day. And the software I use when I'm live streaming is OBS. I pipe music in using a service called Pretzel Rocks. I use all of the Elgato software for the peripherals, so there's the control center, the Stream Deck software, etcetera, and the Wavelink software. I also use another tool called ATEM. It connects, Twitch to OBS and allows me to make things happen on my stream via Twitch channel point redemptions without me needing to write any code. But speaking of writing code, I do have a very large custom setup that I wrote in order to power all of the things that happen on my stream. It's a back end in express and node, connects to a front end built in react, even shares a types package if you want to get nerdy. And so everything I do is a combination of things that happen using Atum, my custom Twitch bot, and all of the software around it. And now for the software that I use in my day to day coding. I try to keep things as simple as possible and not overwhelm myself with tool fatigue. I'm saying that though, but the list I'm gonna read out is pretty, pretty long. However, I use Versus Code as my main coding IDE. I keep it really simple and I have like a custom setup where I hide the sidebars and all the different activity feeds and things, and I just want a blank canvas to be able to code on. I use iTerm2 as my terminal or the inbuilt terminal in Versus Code, and I try to manage as many of my dependency packages as possible on my machine using Homebrew. So I'll install node and anything else I need via Homebrew. The main browser I use is Arc. I recently converted to Arc last year. It kind of feels like an app rather than a browser, and that's what I like about it. It's built on Chromium. So if you're familiar with Chrome, it does everything that Chrome does with a few extra little details on top. And I make sure to use, the browsers like Safari and Firefox as well if I'm gonna test out what I'm building. I replaced Spotlight on a Mac with Raycast. I don't think I'm using it to its full potential, but I do have some pretty cool commands that I use to, like, get my clipboard history up if I miss click on command c and v, and that one's really helpful and it's just nice to look at. I currently use rectangle for window management. I actually recently switched from spectacle to rectangle last year. I'm still getting used to the key binds for rectangle because there are a lot, but I would recommend it. And on the subject of content creation, I found a really cool app that allows you to hide app icons in your Mac top toolbar when you're doing screen recordings for videos, and that's called vanilla. For day to day video editing, I either use ScreenFlow on my personal MacBook or I use Adobe Premiere Pro on my work MacBook. And one bit of software I couldn't live without is Meeting Bar. Now this sits at the top of my Mac screen toolbar, and it allows me to consolidate events across as many calendars as I need. And I manage 3 calendars in my day to day, and it's really helpful to give me, a quick glance at what's coming up next in my day. Finally, I recently switched from Trello to Notion for task management last year. Since I started using Notion at work, I began to get more familiar with it and how useful it is to have databases of tasks and other things. Like, I use it to manage my newsletter and everything I need to do for Twitch and all the miscellaneous things I need to do in my life. The music I listen to when I work actually really depends on my mood. Sometimes I like to put lo fi vibes on in the background. When I really need to work through a difficult problem, I actually like to put metal core on and, like, thrash around a little bit. Unfortunately, the new Spotify Daylist has kind of polluted my algorithm because in the morning when I'm lazy and just wanna want to put something on, I'll put the day list on and it's generally lo fi kind of atmospheric kind of stuff, which is great. But now that's all Spotify recommends me. So they need like a button to say, like, don't include this in my algorithm, please. I think one of the most interesting pieces of hardware that I use, especially for me because I didn't know this was a thing. And when I got it as a thing, I was like, why haven't I ever used this before? And it seems weird, but it is a light bar for my screen. I use the BenQ ScreenBar Halo because they were kind enough to send me one, and now I just couldn't live without it. It illuminates my space in the dark when, you know, in the UK it's very dark in the winter, isn't it? And, having this screen bar just gives me a little bit more joy in my life. I don't know what it is. It just gives me life, and I always notice if I forget to turn it on. So I like my hobbies to be as non tech based as possible. And my two main hobbies in my life right now are cross stitch and learning the drums. I first started doing cross stitch a year ago in January 2023, and I'm currently working on my second very big piece and I started learning the drums in September 2023 And I don't need to use any software or tools for my cross stitch, but one of the things that I love using for my drum practice is a piece of software called the amazing Slow Downer. Now this allows you to slow down or speed up music and backing tracks without affecting the quality of the audio. And whilst you can do the same thing with a digital audio workstation tools, such as Pro Tools and Logic and and whatnot, this is a really simple interface to allow you to scroll up and down for the speed of the track, and you can also change the pitch and things. You import music, and you're good to go. And it works on, desktop and other devices such as iPads and phones. I would highly recommend the amazing Slow Downer if you are learning anything that you can play to a backing track. The thing that's important to me for some reason to keep analog is my weekend to do list. I write all of the chores and random jobs on a scrap piece of paper in the kitchen. I put little check boxes next to each item and I tick them off gradually. My son and my husband are involved obviously in the weekend to do list as well, so they get to tick things off when they do things and we leave it in the kitchen. Sometimes it's stuck to the chalkboard thing we've got and it's just a nice break from doing everything digitally in the week. And sometimes it's just nice to keep things in your hand and and remember how to write with a pen, you know? So that's the hardware, software, and analog tools that I use to run my life. Find me on the Internet everywhere as white panther. That's white p 4nth 3r if you use a screen reader. Thanks for joining me, and, I'll see you somewhere.",[183],"01bd2813-d4ca-4651-82ca-52a94913e142",[],{"id":140,"number":141,"show":122,"year":135,"episodes":186},[143,144,145,146,147],{"id":145,"slug":188,"vimeo_id":189,"description":190,"tile":191,"length":192,"resources":8,"people":193,"episode_number":197,"published":198,"title":199,"video_transcript_html":200,"video_transcript_text":201,"content":8,"seo":8,"status":130,"episode_people":202,"recommendations":204,"season":205},"terence","925121454","Terence is an open source hacker and tinkerer, works in civic tech, and here's the software, hardware, and analog tools he uses in his day-to-day.","5f9300e4-04f8-4092-8e5d-1d7015c0e222",11,[194],{"name":195,"url":196},"Terence Eden","https://edent.tel",3,"2024-04-09","What's In Your Dock, Terence?","\u003Cp>Terence: Hello, the Internet. My name's Terence Eden. I'm an open source hacker and tinkerer, and I work in civic tech, and this is what's in my dock. This is my hardware setup. I use a cheap generic Linux laptop, which works beautifully, but I pair it with a very big vertical monitor because I spend a lot of my time reading very long documents, and so I just like that nice big vertical screen.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I use an ergonomic keyboard to keep my hands like that, a nice rollerball. I'm also, if you see me standing around it's because, I use a standing desk, very good for the back, and somewhere under there I've got a treadmill so that while I'm working I can, get my steps in. In in terms of other hardware, well my phone is it's like a 6 and a half year old Android, it's a OnePlus. But what I do is I pair all of my hardware with magnetic charging devices. So I can plug something into the socket, and then I just have a magnetic cable, which charges all of them.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And that just means that I really only need to carry 1 cable around, 1 battery around. So my day to day work involves reading and writing lots of code, lots of documents, so, I rely heavily on a clipboard manager. I use Pop!OS, which is a Linux distro, and the the great thing about the clipboard manager I find is that it just it stores all of my brains. If I've copied something from somewhere it is there in the history, whether it's a web address or a bit of text that I was using in one document, I want something else. I don't have to go hunting for it, it's just there in history.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The other shortcut I make far too much use of is emoji shortcut. I just love peppering everything that I do with emojis. I don't care if that makes me a tweenager, I think it's cool, and being able to to one click type, what I'm looking for and have sparkle hearts just appear absolute magic. Because I work with lots of very secure systems, I'm constantly typing in usernames and passwords, so I use Bitwarden. Bitwarden is a free and open source password manager, password generator, it's on my phone, it's on my laptop, it's I I use it everywhere and it's just fantastic knowing that I've got super strong passwords for every service, and if I ever need to change 1 or create a new one, it's immediately synced between my devices.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I don't have to remember 100 of complex passwords, and that's a a real time saver and and a lifesaver for me. The other tool I which I'm using right now is called droidcam, which is, a little gadget which turns my old Android phone up there into a high quality webcam, and there's a little Linux client running on my laptop, which enables me to speak to you in high def, which is very exciting because most laptops have rubbish webcams, so now I've got a big multi megapixel sensor, so you can really see how tired I look. And then, finally, one of the tools I find myself using a great deal is home assistant. I have far too much smart home gadgetry, so I've got my lights are all smart lights, and my fridge is a smart fridge, and I've got sensors and alarms and everything else, and it's great just to be able to see the state of my house, on on the dash, and to be able to turn lights on and off to set the alarm, to set up schedules. So I think when when you're living in a house with lots of technology, you need ways to manage that technology.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Home assistant is, a brilliant open source bit of kit. It runs on a Raspberry Pi which is somewhere in my room, probably. I can ping it so it must exist. I find music incredibly distracting when I'm working. I if someone is singing, I find myself typing what they're singing.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So I either use, you know, the, the lofi hip hop beats, you know, the, the girl in the in the cafe, or instrumental songs, or sometimes I will just pick a language that I do not know and, just say play me songs in this language, and it it just becomes noise to block everything out. I use lots of weird and wonderful hardware. One of the ones which I'm using quite a lot at the moment are these which are bone conducting headphones. So rather than going in the ear, they sort of rest there and they rattle your head when they put the sound in, which is fantastic because it means that your ears are free, and you can hear what's going on around you. The other piece of hardware which I use quite a lot are are these, which are just typing gloves.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So you put them on, stops you from getting RSI. If you're working a lot with computers, you you cannot look after your hands too much. So the the other thing that I've got, I'll see if I can get that up on camera here, is a, a trackball, so I can mouse like that rather than gripping a mouse. And then down here, I I love this keyboard so much I've got like 5 of them down there. This is a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard, other brands are available.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>But but again it just means that my hands are spread out, so that I'm not, constantly cramping. And, I'm currently on a standing desk. I really can recommend like a cheap standing desk adapter, if you've already got a desk. It's it's not very expensive and it just means that get your posture right, get a nice foot mat as well. I I spent a bit too much money on a walking desk thing, so it's a it's a little treadmill that goes under there, but anything that keeps you active while you are at a computer is good, because otherwise you'll end up punched over like that, and you'll you'll mess your body up.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And then the final piece of hardware, that I use is this, which is, an Oculus Quest sorry, they like to be called Meta now, don't they? Meta Quest 2, and I I like this because every time I put it on it reminds me that some tech is just rubbish. You know, the the metaverse is absolute nonsense, but you can go in there and go, this looks so pretty, but it's useless for work, and every time a client says, oh, should we do something in the metaverse? I put this on and go, no, no, that's a bad idea. All all of the gear that I have around me is USB C connected.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We live in the future now, so microphone is USB C, I've got a little label printer, which is USB C, phone and headphones and just just everything. There there is no point getting a gadget and go, oh, I need to get another proprietary cable. So whenever I get something I always check is this gonna plug in to to my USB C dock, if it doesn't doesn't make the cut. And you know what? My my room is just filled with clutter of various raspberry pies and solar panels and, yeah.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Solar tech is really cool. Just being able to charge stuff from the sun. I love it. So the the final thing, bit of hardware that I use is a, a wine crate, because it's got the the holes in a crate, which hold a bottle, are exactly the right size for shoving lots of cables in. So rather than having my cables all in a messy box, I've got a couple of wine crates, and I've got USB cables there and Ethernet cables there and so on and so forth.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So that's my my tip to you is don't get a metaverse headset, buy a crate of wine, you will have a lot more use for it. I travel around the world a lot, which is a a great joy and privilege, and so I like to update OpenStreetMap, which is sort of like the the Wikipedia of Atlas', and there's a wonderful app called Street Complete, so you don't need to know anything about cartography. It presents like a sort of Pokemon Go interface, so as you're wandering around it will say what are the hours of this shop over here? Or what's the name of this street, how many stairs are there here, is this place wheelchair accessible. So you get all these little quests, and you go along on street complete as you're wandering around the city, and you just sort of tickmock.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I think that's great fun, and they have leaderboards, and you get trophies and stuff like that, but the the real joy is contributing to to global mapping. The other hobby that I have, my wife and I run a website called openbenches.org. If you're ever around and you see a memorial bench, you know, one of those benches, a little pack, and it says, in loving memory of so and so who used to love coming here, take a geotagged photo, upload it to to our website. We've now got, I think, over 30,000 benches from around the world that that people have contributed. And it's wonderful just seeing where memorials to to everyday people are.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And and, yeah, it's all free and open source, so come and have a play with that. And then finally, my I suppose my last hobby is watching Doctor Who. Absolutely love a bit of Doctor Who. There's no real technology needed other than a Blu ray player or a DVD player, but what I find absolutely fascinating is tracing how the ideas from early stories make it into modern stories, and how some of the filming techniques are completely outdated, but you can see what they're trying to do. And yet, even when the special effects are a bit ropey, what you can see is the idea of something interesting, and that gives me hope for all the things that we built.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So when I look back at my old websites that I built back in the late nineties, they were rubbish, but I can see exactly what I was trying to do. And that gives me hope that when people look at what we're doing now, they'll go cool, that that looks a bit rubbish, but we can see we can see the path that was taken from the olden days into the future. So I would definitely recommend finding an old TV show that that you like and watching it through from the beginning. So I don't keep many things analog. I think the only thing I do is I I fidget a lot.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So I've got lots of fidget toys like this which are just little things and bits that I have hanging around so that when I'm talking on calls like this, my hands can be busy fidgeting and hopefully not clicking too much near the microphone. But I I've been looking around my house to see what I've got that's analog, and other than me and my wife, I don't think there is anything. And that's it. That's all the gear that I use, the the hardware, the software, all the music I listen to. Everything is USB C powered, even the headphones that I listen to to music through.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I I've had so much fun talking to you today. If you'd like to follow me on social media, you can find me on mastodon or you can visit my blog, and that's at schukspert.mobiblog or contact me other ways edent dot tel. Thanks for having me. Bye.\u003C/p>","Hello, the Internet. My name's Terence Eden. I'm an open source hacker and tinkerer, and I work in civic tech, and this is what's in my dock. This is my hardware setup. I use a cheap generic Linux laptop, which works beautifully, but I pair it with a very big vertical monitor because I spend a lot of my time reading very long documents, and so I just like that nice big vertical screen. I use an ergonomic keyboard to keep my hands like that, a nice rollerball. I'm also, if you see me standing around it's because, I use a standing desk, very good for the back, and somewhere under there I've got a treadmill so that while I'm working I can, get my steps in. In in terms of other hardware, well my phone is it's like a 6 and a half year old Android, it's a OnePlus. But what I do is I pair all of my hardware with magnetic charging devices. So I can plug something into the socket, and then I just have a magnetic cable, which charges all of them. And that just means that I really only need to carry 1 cable around, 1 battery around. So my day to day work involves reading and writing lots of code, lots of documents, so, I rely heavily on a clipboard manager. I use Pop!OS, which is a Linux distro, and the the great thing about the clipboard manager I find is that it just it stores all of my brains. If I've copied something from somewhere it is there in the history, whether it's a web address or a bit of text that I was using in one document, I want something else. I don't have to go hunting for it, it's just there in history. The other shortcut I make far too much use of is emoji shortcut. I just love peppering everything that I do with emojis. I don't care if that makes me a tweenager, I think it's cool, and being able to to one click type, what I'm looking for and have sparkle hearts just appear absolute magic. Because I work with lots of very secure systems, I'm constantly typing in usernames and passwords, so I use Bitwarden. Bitwarden is a free and open source password manager, password generator, it's on my phone, it's on my laptop, it's I I use it everywhere and it's just fantastic knowing that I've got super strong passwords for every service, and if I ever need to change 1 or create a new one, it's immediately synced between my devices. I don't have to remember 100 of complex passwords, and that's a a real time saver and and a lifesaver for me. The other tool I which I'm using right now is called droidcam, which is, a little gadget which turns my old Android phone up there into a high quality webcam, and there's a little Linux client running on my laptop, which enables me to speak to you in high def, which is very exciting because most laptops have rubbish webcams, so now I've got a big multi megapixel sensor, so you can really see how tired I look. And then, finally, one of the tools I find myself using a great deal is home assistant. I have far too much smart home gadgetry, so I've got my lights are all smart lights, and my fridge is a smart fridge, and I've got sensors and alarms and everything else, and it's great just to be able to see the state of my house, on on the dash, and to be able to turn lights on and off to set the alarm, to set up schedules. So I think when when you're living in a house with lots of technology, you need ways to manage that technology. Home assistant is, a brilliant open source bit of kit. It runs on a Raspberry Pi which is somewhere in my room, probably. I can ping it so it must exist. I find music incredibly distracting when I'm working. I if someone is singing, I find myself typing what they're singing. So I either use, you know, the, the lofi hip hop beats, you know, the, the girl in the in the cafe, or instrumental songs, or sometimes I will just pick a language that I do not know and, just say play me songs in this language, and it it just becomes noise to block everything out. I use lots of weird and wonderful hardware. One of the ones which I'm using quite a lot at the moment are these which are bone conducting headphones. So rather than going in the ear, they sort of rest there and they rattle your head when they put the sound in, which is fantastic because it means that your ears are free, and you can hear what's going on around you. The other piece of hardware which I use quite a lot are are these, which are just typing gloves. So you put them on, stops you from getting RSI. If you're working a lot with computers, you you cannot look after your hands too much. So the the other thing that I've got, I'll see if I can get that up on camera here, is a, a trackball, so I can mouse like that rather than gripping a mouse. And then down here, I I love this keyboard so much I've got like 5 of them down there. This is a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard, other brands are available. But but again it just means that my hands are spread out, so that I'm not, constantly cramping. And, I'm currently on a standing desk. I really can recommend like a cheap standing desk adapter, if you've already got a desk. It's it's not very expensive and it just means that get your posture right, get a nice foot mat as well. I I spent a bit too much money on a walking desk thing, so it's a it's a little treadmill that goes under there, but anything that keeps you active while you are at a computer is good, because otherwise you'll end up punched over like that, and you'll you'll mess your body up. And then the final piece of hardware, that I use is this, which is, an Oculus Quest sorry, they like to be called Meta now, don't they? Meta Quest 2, and I I like this because every time I put it on it reminds me that some tech is just rubbish. You know, the the metaverse is absolute nonsense, but you can go in there and go, this looks so pretty, but it's useless for work, and every time a client says, oh, should we do something in the metaverse? I put this on and go, no, no, that's a bad idea. All all of the gear that I have around me is USB C connected. We live in the future now, so microphone is USB C, I've got a little label printer, which is USB C, phone and headphones and just just everything. There there is no point getting a gadget and go, oh, I need to get another proprietary cable. So whenever I get something I always check is this gonna plug in to to my USB C dock, if it doesn't doesn't make the cut. And you know what? My my room is just filled with clutter of various raspberry pies and solar panels and, yeah. Solar tech is really cool. Just being able to charge stuff from the sun. I love it. So the the final thing, bit of hardware that I use is a, a wine crate, because it's got the the holes in a crate, which hold a bottle, are exactly the right size for shoving lots of cables in. So rather than having my cables all in a messy box, I've got a couple of wine crates, and I've got USB cables there and Ethernet cables there and so on and so forth. So that's my my tip to you is don't get a metaverse headset, buy a crate of wine, you will have a lot more use for it. I travel around the world a lot, which is a a great joy and privilege, and so I like to update OpenStreetMap, which is sort of like the the Wikipedia of Atlas', and there's a wonderful app called Street Complete, so you don't need to know anything about cartography. It presents like a sort of Pokemon Go interface, so as you're wandering around it will say what are the hours of this shop over here? Or what's the name of this street, how many stairs are there here, is this place wheelchair accessible. So you get all these little quests, and you go along on street complete as you're wandering around the city, and you just sort of tickmock. I think that's great fun, and they have leaderboards, and you get trophies and stuff like that, but the the real joy is contributing to to global mapping. The other hobby that I have, my wife and I run a website called openbenches.org. If you're ever around and you see a memorial bench, you know, one of those benches, a little pack, and it says, in loving memory of so and so who used to love coming here, take a geotagged photo, upload it to to our website. We've now got, I think, over 30,000 benches from around the world that that people have contributed. And it's wonderful just seeing where memorials to to everyday people are. And and, yeah, it's all free and open source, so come and have a play with that. And then finally, my I suppose my last hobby is watching Doctor Who. Absolutely love a bit of Doctor Who. There's no real technology needed other than a Blu ray player or a DVD player, but what I find absolutely fascinating is tracing how the ideas from early stories make it into modern stories, and how some of the filming techniques are completely outdated, but you can see what they're trying to do. And yet, even when the special effects are a bit ropey, what you can see is the idea of something interesting, and that gives me hope for all the things that we built. So when I look back at my old websites that I built back in the late nineties, they were rubbish, but I can see exactly what I was trying to do. And that gives me hope that when people look at what we're doing now, they'll go cool, that that looks a bit rubbish, but we can see we can see the path that was taken from the olden days into the future. So I would definitely recommend finding an old TV show that that you like and watching it through from the beginning. So I don't keep many things analog. I think the only thing I do is I I fidget a lot. So I've got lots of fidget toys like this which are just little things and bits that I have hanging around so that when I'm talking on calls like this, my hands can be busy fidgeting and hopefully not clicking too much near the microphone. But I I've been looking around my house to see what I've got that's analog, and other than me and my wife, I don't think there is anything. And that's it. That's all the gear that I use, the the hardware, the software, all the music I listen to. Everything is USB C powered, even the headphones that I listen to to music through. I I've had so much fun talking to you today. If you'd like to follow me on social media, you can find me on mastodon or you can visit my blog, and that's at schukspert.mobiblog or contact me other ways edent dot tel. Thanks for having me. Bye.",[203],"367710c7-75fd-49fb-ad30-b27fa8ee51e3",[],{"id":140,"number":141,"show":122,"year":135,"episodes":206},[143,144,145,146,147],{"id":146,"slug":208,"vimeo_id":209,"description":210,"tile":211,"length":212,"resources":8,"people":213,"episode_number":217,"published":218,"title":219,"video_transcript_html":220,"video_transcript_text":221,"content":8,"seo":8,"status":130,"episode_people":222,"recommendations":224,"season":225},"saron","925119261","Saron is the founder of Disco and the creator of Not a Designer, and here's the software, hardware, and analog tools she uses in her day-to-day.","c1ab432f-678c-4eba-add2-956de04e834a",9,[214],{"name":215,"url":216},"Saron Yitbarek","https://twitter.com/saronyitbarek",4,"2024-04-23","What's In Your Dock, Saron?","\u003Cp>Saron: Hi. My name is Saron. I am the founder of disco and the creator of not a designer, and this is what's in my dock. Firstly, my devices. I use the MacBook Pro as my primary computing device.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>I also have my trusty iPhone, which is my phone. It has a lovely crack on it, which happened the day before New Year's, which honestly I think makes it look kind of pretty, and gives it some character, so I think I'm okay with it. And then lastly, I have my smartwatch, which actually isn't too smart. I was very opposed to having an Apple Watch. I tried it for a week, didn't really like it.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>I hate getting notifications on it. This is purely for health and fitness. It counts my steps, It tells me the time. It tells me the weather, and that's all I need from a watch. And it has, it's performed beautifully.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>My day to day as a founder involves a lot of writing and a lot of spreadsheets and a lot of planning, so I am in the Google Apps ecosystem all the time. I'm constantly writing emails or I'm busting out a spreadsheet to calculate something financial, something budget related, or to make, you know, let yet another contact list for another project I'm launching, or I'm in Google Docs and I'm writing my latest, newsletter issue for not a designer, my newsletter that I drop, or I'm in slides. I actually use slides quite a bit, Google slides. I use that for meeting agendas. I used to do agendas in Google Docs, but what I found is when you have this nice long agenda, you end up skipping ahead and kind of reading the whole thing while someone else is talking.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>So instead, now I use Google Slides, and now I can just focus one agenda item per slide and just have people focus on that one thing, and I found that it makes for much better meetings. So a couple other tools I recommend for newsletter writing is Beehive. I absolutely love Beehive. It's relatively new. It's only a couple years old, but I think they do such a phenomenal job.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The focus of the user interface really is on the writing, so you get to really focus on getting your ideas on paper, getting really good content. I use it for my newsletter, not a designer, which is all about design tips for developers, and it does such a good job of giving you enough flexibility that you can kind of make it your own. It has some, you know, colors and some branding guidelines and things like that, but it's also relatively standardized, so you don't feel like you're overwhelmed with all these new design decisions you have to make. It comes with some segmentation. It comes with a survey.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It has referrals. You can actually do, like, swag and do giveaways for referrals. So it's just a really fully featured, platform that does a really good job for newsletters. So if you're starting a newsletter, you can start one for free. I highly recommend Beehive.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It's a really great piece of software. Another piece of software that I really like that I've been using, a lot recently is actually Typeform. It feels kind of old because it's not new. I feel like Typeform has been around for quite some time, but I was doing this application for my new initiative, Big Cash Money 2024, which is all about, income streams, different income streams for people who are looking to maximize revenue. And I was creating this application and trying out all these different tools, and typeform is like still the best one.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It makes it so easy to break down the the questions one at a time. Their logic and their flow is really beautiful and really intuitive to use, and I feel like they took just as much care of the admin, the person actually administering the form, as they did the people taking the form, and it's just a delight to use. It has all these really great stats. It's a little pricey, so you gotta kinda gotta watch out for that, but besides that, it's just a really great tool, and I've just been really enjoying still using Typeform all these years later. And the 3rd piece of software is this new tool that I recently came across called Passionfruit, and it is essentially like a storefront, but for sponsorships for ads for creators.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>So for example, if I have a newsletter, like Not A Designer, and I want to sell an ad, I would have a storefront, and listed as a product is one of the ad spots available on my newsletter for that week. And I've actually used it not really as a creator, but I've used it as a sponsor. And it has made things just so much faster. It's so easy to just look at someone's storefront, look at their stats, see how much it costs, see when it's available, take care of payment all in one go, get your sponsorship accepted, get it reviewed. I've done sponsorships for many, many years for my first business, CodeNewbie, and I've started to do it for not a designer.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>And it has always been kind of a pain in the butt. It's been like a lot of back and forth, and this just makes the whole process so much I hope the creators you go for are on Passionfruit because it'll save you a lot of time. I don't know what's gone into me lately, but I've been really into country music, but very specific songs. So there are 4 specific country music songs that I've been really into. They're by Walker Hayes, Morgan Wallen, and Jordan Davis.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>And I just have those songs on repeat, and I've had them on repeat for the past maybe 2 or 3 weeks. Like, that's pretty much all I've been listening to, which is very strange because I'm usually not intercountry music, and I only got introduced to it, like, last year. But something about it just feels so great and comforting to work through and to to have in the background, and it's just been, like, feeding my soul. So that's been my big music go to recently. I really love my podcast mic.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It's actually this mic right here. It's the Shure MV 7. And I love it because it is a USB mic that I feel like all the podcasters really got hip to over the last couple of years. I I feel like I see it on all the YouTube channels and all the the video podcasts that I've been looking at, that I've been watching. But it's just a really great mic.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It's it's easy to use. It's it's I don't need, like, a mixer for it. I can just plug the tray into my laptop, and it's just a a really great convenient relatively affordable. I think it was, like, 200, 250, which is not too bad considering how expensive mics can get. So, yeah.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>That's been one of my favorite piece of hardware that, that I've been using. To be honest, I'm not very big on hobbies, but I have been doing weightlifting for almost a year. I think it's been about like 9, 10 months so far. And one of my favorite things that I've been using for weightlifting is actually this, like, grip hook thing. So, basically, you put it around your wrist, and you tighten it like this.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>And then you use this to lift the the bar. And it has been so helpful because I get a lot of wrist pain when I'm lifting, and this helps me kinda keep my wrist in place and keeps it just straight on, and it's helped me lift way more than I was able to lift before. So hugely love. I think they're called like power grip hooks or something, but they have been, really really helpful in that hobby. One thing that I do analog is my to do list.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>I don't use apps, I don't use software for it. I got my trusty little notebook, and I have this amazing, really cheap, classic, multicolored pen. There's 4 colors. I think think this is like a couple bucks, but I love this tool so much because I love using color coding to manage my to do items. I have blue as my primary task.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>I have black if it's like super serious. I've got green for, move it on to the next day. I use red if it's something that needs attention. And this gives me all the 4 colors I need. It's really cheap.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It writes really smoothly. So, yeah, I do my to do list completely analog, and I use this trusty pen to help me get it done. And finally, something for my workspace. This is my absolute favorite thing that I have and that I own as far as work is concerned, and it's barely even work related. It's actually more for stress relief and anxiety, but this is my comfort wrap.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>So this is an electric blanket that you wrap around your shoulders, and it turns on. And it even has a little space here where you can put a little, aromatic, a little aromatherapy moment for you here. So you can like spray aroma essential oils and put in this little pocket, but I absolutely love this tool. I am a big fan of making work as enjoyable as possible. So when it's a little bit chilly at night especially, I'll put on my comfort wrap.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>I've got my hot tea going. I've got my little country music. I'm setting the scene, and I am super productive, super relaxed, having a great time. And that's how I get my work done. I got my hardware.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>I got my software. I got my physical tools and my comfort wrap. And if you wanna learn more about me or my work, check me out on Twitter at saronyitbarek, s aronyitbarek. Thanks.\u003C/p>","Hi. My name is Saron. I am the founder of disco and the creator of not a designer, and this is what's in my dock. Firstly, my devices. I use the MacBook Pro as my primary computing device. I also have my trusty iPhone, which is my phone. It has a lovely crack on it, which happened the day before New Year's, which honestly I think makes it look kind of pretty, and gives it some character, so I think I'm okay with it. And then lastly, I have my smartwatch, which actually isn't too smart. I was very opposed to having an Apple Watch. I tried it for a week, didn't really like it. I hate getting notifications on it. This is purely for health and fitness. It counts my steps, It tells me the time. It tells me the weather, and that's all I need from a watch. And it has, it's performed beautifully. My day to day as a founder involves a lot of writing and a lot of spreadsheets and a lot of planning, so I am in the Google Apps ecosystem all the time. I'm constantly writing emails or I'm busting out a spreadsheet to calculate something financial, something budget related, or to make, you know, let yet another contact list for another project I'm launching, or I'm in Google Docs and I'm writing my latest, newsletter issue for not a designer, my newsletter that I drop, or I'm in slides. I actually use slides quite a bit, Google slides. I use that for meeting agendas. I used to do agendas in Google Docs, but what I found is when you have this nice long agenda, you end up skipping ahead and kind of reading the whole thing while someone else is talking. So instead, now I use Google Slides, and now I can just focus one agenda item per slide and just have people focus on that one thing, and I found that it makes for much better meetings. So a couple other tools I recommend for newsletter writing is Beehive. I absolutely love Beehive. It's relatively new. It's only a couple years old, but I think they do such a phenomenal job. The focus of the user interface really is on the writing, so you get to really focus on getting your ideas on paper, getting really good content. I use it for my newsletter, not a designer, which is all about design tips for developers, and it does such a good job of giving you enough flexibility that you can kind of make it your own. It has some, you know, colors and some branding guidelines and things like that, but it's also relatively standardized, so you don't feel like you're overwhelmed with all these new design decisions you have to make. It comes with some segmentation. It comes with a survey. It has referrals. You can actually do, like, swag and do giveaways for referrals. So it's just a really fully featured, platform that does a really good job for newsletters. So if you're starting a newsletter, you can start one for free. I highly recommend Beehive. It's a really great piece of software. Another piece of software that I really like that I've been using, a lot recently is actually Typeform. It feels kind of old because it's not new. I feel like Typeform has been around for quite some time, but I was doing this application for my new initiative, Big Cash Money 2024, which is all about, income streams, different income streams for people who are looking to maximize revenue. And I was creating this application and trying out all these different tools, and typeform is like still the best one. It makes it so easy to break down the the questions one at a time. Their logic and their flow is really beautiful and really intuitive to use, and I feel like they took just as much care of the admin, the person actually administering the form, as they did the people taking the form, and it's just a delight to use. It has all these really great stats. It's a little pricey, so you gotta kinda gotta watch out for that, but besides that, it's just a really great tool, and I've just been really enjoying still using Typeform all these years later. And the 3rd piece of software is this new tool that I recently came across called Passionfruit, and it is essentially like a storefront, but for sponsorships for ads for creators. So for example, if I have a newsletter, like Not A Designer, and I want to sell an ad, I would have a storefront, and listed as a product is one of the ad spots available on my newsletter for that week. And I've actually used it not really as a creator, but I've used it as a sponsor. And it has made things just so much faster. It's so easy to just look at someone's storefront, look at their stats, see how much it costs, see when it's available, take care of payment all in one go, get your sponsorship accepted, get it reviewed. I've done sponsorships for many, many years for my first business, CodeNewbie, and I've started to do it for not a designer. And it has always been kind of a pain in the butt. It's been like a lot of back and forth, and this just makes the whole process so much I hope the creators you go for are on Passionfruit because it'll save you a lot of time. I don't know what's gone into me lately, but I've been really into country music, but very specific songs. So there are 4 specific country music songs that I've been really into. They're by Walker Hayes, Morgan Wallen, and Jordan Davis. And I just have those songs on repeat, and I've had them on repeat for the past maybe 2 or 3 weeks. Like, that's pretty much all I've been listening to, which is very strange because I'm usually not intercountry music, and I only got introduced to it, like, last year. But something about it just feels so great and comforting to work through and to to have in the background, and it's just been, like, feeding my soul. So that's been my big music go to recently. I really love my podcast mic. It's actually this mic right here. It's the Shure MV 7. And I love it because it is a USB mic that I feel like all the podcasters really got hip to over the last couple of years. I I feel like I see it on all the YouTube channels and all the the video podcasts that I've been looking at, that I've been watching. But it's just a really great mic. It's it's easy to use. It's it's I don't need, like, a mixer for it. I can just plug the tray into my laptop, and it's just a a really great convenient relatively affordable. I think it was, like, 200, 250, which is not too bad considering how expensive mics can get. So, yeah. That's been one of my favorite piece of hardware that, that I've been using. To be honest, I'm not very big on hobbies, but I have been doing weightlifting for almost a year. I think it's been about like 9, 10 months so far. And one of my favorite things that I've been using for weightlifting is actually this, like, grip hook thing. So, basically, you put it around your wrist, and you tighten it like this. And then you use this to lift the the bar. And it has been so helpful because I get a lot of wrist pain when I'm lifting, and this helps me kinda keep my wrist in place and keeps it just straight on, and it's helped me lift way more than I was able to lift before. So hugely love. I think they're called like power grip hooks or something, but they have been, really really helpful in that hobby. One thing that I do analog is my to do list. I don't use apps, I don't use software for it. I got my trusty little notebook, and I have this amazing, really cheap, classic, multicolored pen. There's 4 colors. I think think this is like a couple bucks, but I love this tool so much because I love using color coding to manage my to do items. I have blue as my primary task. I have black if it's like super serious. I've got green for, move it on to the next day. I use red if it's something that needs attention. And this gives me all the 4 colors I need. It's really cheap. It writes really smoothly. So, yeah, I do my to do list completely analog, and I use this trusty pen to help me get it done. And finally, something for my workspace. This is my absolute favorite thing that I have and that I own as far as work is concerned, and it's barely even work related. It's actually more for stress relief and anxiety, but this is my comfort wrap. So this is an electric blanket that you wrap around your shoulders, and it turns on. And it even has a little space here where you can put a little, aromatic, a little aromatherapy moment for you here. So you can like spray aroma essential oils and put in this little pocket, but I absolutely love this tool. I am a big fan of making work as enjoyable as possible. So when it's a little bit chilly at night especially, I'll put on my comfort wrap. I've got my hot tea going. I've got my little country music. I'm setting the scene, and I am super productive, super relaxed, having a great time. And that's how I get my work done. I got my hardware. I got my software. I got my physical tools and my comfort wrap. And if you wanna learn more about me or my work, check me out on Twitter at saronyitbarek, s aronyitbarek. Thanks.",[223],"b53d69ab-6188-4836-836e-f151133fa82d",[],{"id":140,"number":141,"show":122,"year":135,"episodes":226},[143,144,145,146,147],{"id":147,"slug":228,"vimeo_id":229,"description":230,"tile":231,"length":192,"resources":8,"people":232,"episode_number":154,"published":236,"title":237,"video_transcript_html":238,"video_transcript_text":239,"content":8,"seo":8,"status":130,"episode_people":240,"recommendations":242,"season":243},"kevin","925113229","Kevin runs Developer Relations at Directus, and runs Directus TV, and here's the software, hardware, and analog tools he uses in his day-to-day.","c137a7f4-812b-4ef1-adcf-02da048481ed",[233],{"name":234,"url":235},"Kevin Lewis","https://directus.io/team/kevin-lewis","2024-05-07","What's In Your Dock, Kevin?","\u003Cp>Speaker 0: Hi, I'm Kevin. I run the developer relations team here at Directus and this is what's in my doc. Firstly, my devices, I'm pretty basic here, I use a 14 inch 2021 MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro Chip and 16 gigs of RAM, and I use an iPhone 14 Pro with 256 gigs of storage because a 128 never seem to be enough for the 2 years that I tend to keep phones. My day to day involves a lot of context switching between content authoring and review, writing documents, meetings, and software development. And to kind of handle that context switching, I use Arc Browser.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>There's a good chance that you've heard of this browser by now. It's available on Mac and Windows, but they have a really unique, concept of spaces, which does exist in other browsers, but not quite as well as it works in Arc. So I can set up kind of sections of my browser for different types of tasks that I do or different profiles that I need to keep. And they also have this thing called tab cleanup. So every, you know, every 7 days is what I've got it configured to.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Anything in a particular section screenshots and small video. I find their annotation tool just really, really good, and they also, immediately save screenshots to your clipboard, which is useful, and they keep a history of things that you've captured for a little while. They also have this nice feature where you can take a screenshot and then pin it above everything else. So if I just need a little bit of reference while I go do something else, I'll often screenshot something, pin it to my monitor, and then I can move around and it just kinda stays put there. So really, really useful.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Rewind is a tool that I use to enhance my memory for things that I've seen or said on my machine. It basically watches everything you do, compresses what you do as screenshots really small, keeps them on device, and then at any time, I can pull up this little interface something I may have said in a meeting because it provides transcriptions or something I've seen in a document somewhere, and it will show you when and where you saw it and which application. And then applications it's aware of, you can do, like, a one click open, which is really good. I'm sure we've all had that thing where we go, where was that? Was it a Google Doc?\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Was it a Notion? Was it inside of Directus? Was it in a Google Sheet? Who knows? But I know what was said.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I know the words that were in there, so really useful. I love Rewind. I have it has just enhanced my memory so so much. I'm a big fan of cloud development environments because I have to context switch so much. It's good to have fresh code environment when I'm working on specific issues or reviewing specific pull requests.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So for that, I use GitHub Codespaces. I previously used Gitpod, but the really tight integration with the GitHub workflow that Codespaces provides, caused me to to move over there. So from an issue, I can immediately create a new code environment. It installs all my dependencies, and I can get straight to work. It's really, really good for reviewing other people's work as well.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>For doing basic recording and editing of my screen, I use ScreenFlow. It's a macOS video editor. I just find that it works really nicely. It doesn't have the most features, but it has basically everything I need day to day. Some really innovative, like, keyboard shortcuts or rather, I should say, intuitive keyboard shortcuts, and it just allows me to get moving really quickly.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Now if I'm recording with multiple people, I use Riverside, which is a browser based studio where you can invite multiple people in. It will do a really nice thing where it will stream to participants a lower quality version of the video than perhaps it needs to, but it will record a full quality version and then stream upload that to the Riverside like storage. So you can always know that you have the highest quality version of someone's recording that you possibly can. We use this extensively to create Directus TV series. For personal task management software, I use Todoist.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I've tried every one of these tools under the under the sun, and I always seem to fall back to using Todoist. I really like the fact that you can use little shortcuts like the hash key to tag something with a project or an at key to do a label and so on and so forth. It does intelligent date recognition, so it automatically tags things with due date. I have app. They also have good browser integrations and general integrations with other tools that I use.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>A little utility tool that I use is called Hyperkey. Hyperkey just constantly runs in the background of my Mac, and it remaps my command, alt, control, and shift keys to my caps lock key. And then I no longer have a caps lock key, but what I now have is a hyperkey, so I can hold that and I can now have new keyboard shortcuts using the caps lock key. So I'll do things like, you know, caps t to bring up a translator or caps e to bring up an emoji picker and so on. And there's a really, really high chance that the hyper plus character key doesn't conflict with anything that already exists.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So it gives me just a complete new layer of keyboard shortcuts to create. For day to day project management at work, we use GitHub, actually. We do everything in the open. So I mostly use a road map view, which will show here while I'm talking. And this shows every kind of inbound issue that someone has created, whether that's me, whether that's one of the core directors team or a community member.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We learn a bit more about it to understand the scope of work. We then put it in the backlog when it's ready to be worked on. We put it in ready, and then we kind of track the life cycle of an issue accordingly. So we do all of this. It's in the open, and it's not bad at all.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>It lacks some depth of other project management tools, but the fact that our code and our issues and our road map and our workflow are just completely collocated is great. And then throw on top of that the fact that I use Git upgrade spaces, and it just works really nicely. If there is one tool I could not live without, it's Raycast. It is the ultimate productivity tool that kind of gobbles up so many other utilities I once had. At its core, it's a launcher.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So the same way that you may have spotlight search where you hit command space and it brings up a little search bar, I've replaced that search bar with Raycast. It works very similarly. I can launch applications. I can search files, but it also does things like window management, clipboard history, snippets, camera preview. They have a really good store, which is vibrant and new, you know, new extensions are always being published on the store.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>It's just really, really good. You can create your own extensions with JavaScript. You can just run bash scripts if you want, and I just use it all the time. It's probably the first thing I install on a new machine when I have a fresh OS, so that's Raycast. I would say it depends on the kind of work I'm doing.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Sometimes I can put on music with words, sometimes I can't. Like most other episodes, I anticipate lofi hip hop is, you know, has has been mentioned before. I listen to lofi hip hop without words. When I'm doing work where words aren't too distracting, it can be anything, musicals, metal, country, pop music, electronic music. Because my German comprehension isn't quite good enough that I find the words distracting.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>But, yeah, really, it's eclectic. And just depending on my mood and the amount of focus I need to have sometimes with or without words, that's really the only differentiator. The genre is pretty, pretty eclectic. I would say the only interesting piece of hardware I have is probably my monitor. I use the Samsung Odyssey Ultra Wide 49 inch, so it's a huge widescreen monitor.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And then using Raycast, I have keyboard shortcuts, so I can put applications in thirds, I can put applications in quarters. I can put applications in half. And then for things like video editing, I can obviously full screen an application using keyboard shortcuts. Typically, I'll have 3 things open at a time, a code editor in the middle, reference on the left, and a preview on the right. But, yeah, it depends on the task.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This also is kind of weird. It's a it's a curved monitor. And so when I'm using max spaces and I'm, like, swiping to move between them, it's like the entire pane shifts around, and I'm surrounded by all of these spaces that I can't see. It's kind of it's kind of weird to explain, but, yeah, I think my monitor is probably my only interesting hardware. Right here, just out of view, I've got the Elgato Wave 1 Mic in the Elgato Low Profile Arm, which is an amazing mic arm.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I'm really really enjoying it. It's very very solid. For my camera, I'm actually using my last phone, which was an iPhone 12 Mini mounted and permanently plugged in for power, and that is a continuity camera. So I use the, you know, the built in, integration with macOS and iOS to use that. I have a couple of key lights up here which are on that light me properly, which I actually forgot to put on for this recording, so this isn't the this isn't it in its full glory.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I've got some home kit enabled lights behind me, and then for my keyboard, I use a NuPhy s 60. And instead of a mouse, I use a magic trackpad, so I can still use all of the macOS gestures I'm used to. So I use Todoist, as I mentioned, to kind of project manage things that only relate to me. But often, you need just a little kind of micro to do list, just for something you're doing in the moment. And for that, I use these Titulo cards.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>They say Titulo up there in the right, and they're these really nice high stock cards, that just have a little column in the side for you to, you know, provide an icon, tick them off. Say, I've moved this to tomorrow and so on. They're double sided, and I keep one of these in my desk, visible kind of stood up all the time, in case I just need a temporary kind of physical to do list instead of messing around with software tools. But other than that, I really don't do that much analog. I am on my phone constantly.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So as long as things sync well between my machine and my phone, I don't really feel the need to keep much analog. And that's all the software, hardware, and analog tools I use to run my life. I hope you found this interesting. I hope you found this series, what's in your doc, interesting. I hope you enjoy all this other content we have available for you on directors TV, and until the next show, see you next time.\u003C/p>","Hi, I'm Kevin. I run the developer relations team here at Directus and this is what's in my doc. Firstly, my devices, I'm pretty basic here, I use a 14 inch 2021 MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro Chip and 16 gigs of RAM, and I use an iPhone 14 Pro with 256 gigs of storage because a 128 never seem to be enough for the 2 years that I tend to keep phones. My day to day involves a lot of context switching between content authoring and review, writing documents, meetings, and software development. And to kind of handle that context switching, I use Arc Browser. There's a good chance that you've heard of this browser by now. It's available on Mac and Windows, but they have a really unique, concept of spaces, which does exist in other browsers, but not quite as well as it works in Arc. So I can set up kind of sections of my browser for different types of tasks that I do or different profiles that I need to keep. And they also have this thing called tab cleanup. So every, you know, every 7 days is what I've got it configured to. Anything in a particular section screenshots and small video. I find their annotation tool just really, really good, and they also, immediately save screenshots to your clipboard, which is useful, and they keep a history of things that you've captured for a little while. They also have this nice feature where you can take a screenshot and then pin it above everything else. So if I just need a little bit of reference while I go do something else, I'll often screenshot something, pin it to my monitor, and then I can move around and it just kinda stays put there. So really, really useful. Rewind is a tool that I use to enhance my memory for things that I've seen or said on my machine. It basically watches everything you do, compresses what you do as screenshots really small, keeps them on device, and then at any time, I can pull up this little interface something I may have said in a meeting because it provides transcriptions or something I've seen in a document somewhere, and it will show you when and where you saw it and which application. And then applications it's aware of, you can do, like, a one click open, which is really good. I'm sure we've all had that thing where we go, where was that? Was it a Google Doc? Was it a Notion? Was it inside of Directus? Was it in a Google Sheet? Who knows? But I know what was said. I know the words that were in there, so really useful. I love Rewind. I have it has just enhanced my memory so so much. I'm a big fan of cloud development environments because I have to context switch so much. It's good to have fresh code environment when I'm working on specific issues or reviewing specific pull requests. So for that, I use GitHub Codespaces. I previously used Gitpod, but the really tight integration with the GitHub workflow that Codespaces provides, caused me to to move over there. So from an issue, I can immediately create a new code environment. It installs all my dependencies, and I can get straight to work. It's really, really good for reviewing other people's work as well. For doing basic recording and editing of my screen, I use ScreenFlow. It's a macOS video editor. I just find that it works really nicely. It doesn't have the most features, but it has basically everything I need day to day. Some really innovative, like, keyboard shortcuts or rather, I should say, intuitive keyboard shortcuts, and it just allows me to get moving really quickly. Now if I'm recording with multiple people, I use Riverside, which is a browser based studio where you can invite multiple people in. It will do a really nice thing where it will stream to participants a lower quality version of the video than perhaps it needs to, but it will record a full quality version and then stream upload that to the Riverside like storage. So you can always know that you have the highest quality version of someone's recording that you possibly can. We use this extensively to create Directus TV series. For personal task management software, I use Todoist. I've tried every one of these tools under the under the sun, and I always seem to fall back to using Todoist. I really like the fact that you can use little shortcuts like the hash key to tag something with a project or an at key to do a label and so on and so forth. It does intelligent date recognition, so it automatically tags things with due date. I have app. They also have good browser integrations and general integrations with other tools that I use. A little utility tool that I use is called Hyperkey. Hyperkey just constantly runs in the background of my Mac, and it remaps my command, alt, control, and shift keys to my caps lock key. And then I no longer have a caps lock key, but what I now have is a hyperkey, so I can hold that and I can now have new keyboard shortcuts using the caps lock key. So I'll do things like, you know, caps t to bring up a translator or caps e to bring up an emoji picker and so on. And there's a really, really high chance that the hyper plus character key doesn't conflict with anything that already exists. So it gives me just a complete new layer of keyboard shortcuts to create. For day to day project management at work, we use GitHub, actually. We do everything in the open. So I mostly use a road map view, which will show here while I'm talking. And this shows every kind of inbound issue that someone has created, whether that's me, whether that's one of the core directors team or a community member. We learn a bit more about it to understand the scope of work. We then put it in the backlog when it's ready to be worked on. We put it in ready, and then we kind of track the life cycle of an issue accordingly. So we do all of this. It's in the open, and it's not bad at all. It lacks some depth of other project management tools, but the fact that our code and our issues and our road map and our workflow are just completely collocated is great. And then throw on top of that the fact that I use Git upgrade spaces, and it just works really nicely. If there is one tool I could not live without, it's Raycast. It is the ultimate productivity tool that kind of gobbles up so many other utilities I once had. At its core, it's a launcher. So the same way that you may have spotlight search where you hit command space and it brings up a little search bar, I've replaced that search bar with Raycast. It works very similarly. I can launch applications. I can search files, but it also does things like window management, clipboard history, snippets, camera preview. They have a really good store, which is vibrant and new, you know, new extensions are always being published on the store. It's just really, really good. You can create your own extensions with JavaScript. You can just run bash scripts if you want, and I just use it all the time. It's probably the first thing I install on a new machine when I have a fresh OS, so that's Raycast. I would say it depends on the kind of work I'm doing. Sometimes I can put on music with words, sometimes I can't. Like most other episodes, I anticipate lofi hip hop is, you know, has has been mentioned before. I listen to lofi hip hop without words. When I'm doing work where words aren't too distracting, it can be anything, musicals, metal, country, pop music, electronic music. Because my German comprehension isn't quite good enough that I find the words distracting. But, yeah, really, it's eclectic. And just depending on my mood and the amount of focus I need to have sometimes with or without words, that's really the only differentiator. The genre is pretty, pretty eclectic. I would say the only interesting piece of hardware I have is probably my monitor. I use the Samsung Odyssey Ultra Wide 49 inch, so it's a huge widescreen monitor. And then using Raycast, I have keyboard shortcuts, so I can put applications in thirds, I can put applications in quarters. I can put applications in half. And then for things like video editing, I can obviously full screen an application using keyboard shortcuts. Typically, I'll have 3 things open at a time, a code editor in the middle, reference on the left, and a preview on the right. But, yeah, it depends on the task. This also is kind of weird. It's a it's a curved monitor. And so when I'm using max spaces and I'm, like, swiping to move between them, it's like the entire pane shifts around, and I'm surrounded by all of these spaces that I can't see. It's kind of it's kind of weird to explain, but, yeah, I think my monitor is probably my only interesting hardware. Right here, just out of view, I've got the Elgato Wave 1 Mic in the Elgato Low Profile Arm, which is an amazing mic arm. I'm really really enjoying it. It's very very solid. For my camera, I'm actually using my last phone, which was an iPhone 12 Mini mounted and permanently plugged in for power, and that is a continuity camera. So I use the, you know, the built in, integration with macOS and iOS to use that. I have a couple of key lights up here which are on that light me properly, which I actually forgot to put on for this recording, so this isn't the this isn't it in its full glory. I've got some home kit enabled lights behind me, and then for my keyboard, I use a NuPhy s 60. And instead of a mouse, I use a magic trackpad, so I can still use all of the macOS gestures I'm used to. So I use Todoist, as I mentioned, to kind of project manage things that only relate to me. But often, you need just a little kind of micro to do list, just for something you're doing in the moment. And for that, I use these Titulo cards. They say Titulo up there in the right, and they're these really nice high stock cards, that just have a little column in the side for you to, you know, provide an icon, tick them off. Say, I've moved this to tomorrow and so on. They're double sided, and I keep one of these in my desk, visible kind of stood up all the time, in case I just need a temporary kind of physical to do list instead of messing around with software tools. But other than that, I really don't do that much analog. I am on my phone constantly. So as long as things sync well between my machine and my phone, I don't really feel the need to keep much analog. And that's all the software, hardware, and analog tools I use to run my life. I hope you found this interesting. I hope you found this series, what's in your doc, interesting. I hope you enjoy all this other content we have available for you on directors TV, and until the next show, see you next time.",[241],"86cb586f-23d3-457b-aa3f-fae0eca78bd6",[],{"id":140,"number":141,"show":122,"year":135,"episodes":244},[143,144,145,146,147],{"id":137,"slug":246,"vimeo_id":247,"description":248,"tile":249,"length":250,"resources":8,"people":8,"episode_number":141,"published":251,"title":252,"video_transcript_html":253,"video_transcript_text":254,"content":8,"seo":255,"status":130,"episode_people":256,"recommendations":258,"season":259},"rijk","1007792087","Rijk is a developer and designer born and raised in the Netherlands. He first came to America to work on Directus where he is CTO to this day. When not coding you can find him playing bass in the Lower East Side or hanging out with his cats in Brooklyn. Coder-designer by nature, musician at heart; prefers code to be indented in threes. ","145ec186-e959-460e-88a6-e22c11ef1e15",7,"2024-09-09","What's in your Dock, Rijk?","\u003Cp>Speaker 0: Hey. How's it going? So for my daily devices, I use a MacBook Pro in 2021, an iPad Pro, and an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Most of my day to day consists of a split between, you know, doing a lot of meetings, programming, and a bit of design on the side. For those meetings, I use a Sony Alpha s 6,400 with a 16 mil Sigma prime lens.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I do have an Elgato prompter to make it look like I'm looking at you instead of a screen off to the side, and I use a Blue Yeti mic, a Yeti x. I also use a Logi Lytra glow for a little bit of extra light. And when the meetings are a little bit less interesting, I have a little Tetris micro cart on my desk, off screen. Don't tell anyone. When it comes to software, let's take a look at the dock left to right first.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>First and foremost, I use Arc as a browser. I'm the type of person that doesn't really do more than five taps open at a time or I'm losing my mind. So Arc's organization tools for renaming tabs, making folders, having spaces has really been a game changer for my productivity in that space. Although, I do have to admit, tabs that go to a different space go there to die and then get deleted anyways after a long while. For the basic Smell calendar reminders, I use the Apple standard apps.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I have tried every new calendar app that comes out. I love experimenting with them. But at the end of the day, I always find myself coming back to the default ones as they basically do what I need them to do and nothing more. Right? They're very pleasing.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>At Directus, we use Notion for note taking. In meetings, we have a bunch of different teams and a bunch of documents. It's a bit unstructured, but that's kind of the beauty of Notion. And we use Linear for task management. So Linear, think of it as GitHub Issues as a separate app, which has really elevated our productivity in the especially the product team.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Then we use Slack for communication with the team internally, and we use Discord for communication with the larger community of users, of Triactus. When I'm programming, I similarly to calendar apps. I've tried, various different apps. I recently tried Zed. I've been using some of the JetBrains stuff.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I've been on Coda two way back in the day when that was a thing. I've tried Nova. I always come back to Versus Code for the last couple of years. I've set that up very customized. I'm one of the the weird ones that does it in light mode, with a three tap space setting.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And I use iTerm on the side because I cannot deal with the built in terminal. Just a personal preference thing. For debugging databases, I'm a huge fan of TablePlus. So TablePlus is kind of PHPMyAdmin as a native app, but they support effectively every database under the sun, which is very, very nice. You have to learn the tool once, and then you can just use it, which is great for raw database management, so direct, you know, columns or insertions into databases.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>On the flip side of that, I used RapidAPI, previously known as Paul, as an API debugging tool. So it's kind of similar to Postman or Hopscotch or some of those tools, but as a magnated app. I'm still a UX designer at heart, so apps looking nice is a huge reason for me to use them over something else. Then we use Figma for all the design files. I am a very big fan of FigJam as well for quick notes and figuring out projects and doing more product design, or user experience design.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And then last but not least, we have Reader and Ivory. So Reader is an RSS feed reader. I use that to stay up to date with a bunch of blogs and personal blogs that I like to follow for any news in the tech industry or improvements to the web platform or any other interesting developments. And I use Ivory as my client for the Vedaverse. So I'm part of the Fostodon server right now, and I try to follow, again, interesting people on the Internet.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And then last but not least, on the doctor's Spotify, I always got music playing. I mostly listen to everything is what I'm realizing now. There's there's a lot of pop funky stuff in there. There's a lot of alt rock in there, and there's a lot of a little bit of pop sometimes if I just want to focus a little bit and not care about music. Sometimes, I have my own stuff on repeat to get the numbers up, because you gotta game the system a little bit.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Outside of the dock, I am a huge fan of a new app that just came out from Syndra called Scratchpad, which is just a little icon in your menu bar. The only thing it does is it just opens a tiny note, and it goes away when you click it again. So it's just great for a quick, in the middle of a meeting, I have to jot something down. I don't know where it goes. I need to have something to write in within a split second.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Fantastic for that. I use 1Password for all of the password management. Couldn't do without. Use CleanShot for screenshots and screen recordings. Highly recommend that one.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>That is one I cannot do without nowadays. And then the main thing that I install on every machine every time is called Paste. So it's a clipboard manager, similar to the reasoning behind Repit API. It's a MEC native thing. It feels like it was designed by Apple, and I'm sure they get shirts at some point, and I'd be sad when that happens.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>To write. What else? What else do we have here? Oh, yeah. So the the the hobby stops.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Sorry. Outside of work, I like to write and play a lot of music. So one thing I have right off at my desk here is just there's an acoustic guitar sitting ready to go in a demo at any moment. You see, of course, you know, some guitars on the wall. There's there's too many in my apartment here.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>For that, on the computer, I use Logic Pro to record through my, line six HX stomp XL as an interface. And other than that what do we got going on in here? Oh, yeah. Less little desk gadgets. I brought it up.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Before, I have a little Tetris micro card. I don't know if they still make them, but this this gets used a little bit too much in the day. Great way to take a little break. I have an analog Nixie clock sitting here on my desk as a way to keep the time, as if that's not a thing on my computer. And one sort of guilty pleasure that I thought it was gonna be stupid, but I cannot do without nowadays, is an ember mug.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>They're the most again, when I when I bought it, I thought it was gonna be stupid as hell, and now I'm hooked. So recommend one of those as well. I have a little, Belkin wireless charger to prop my phone up and, Sonos on the desk for all of the music that I previously mentioned. And I think that's everything I have around me.\u003C/p>","Hey. How's it going? So for my daily devices, I use a MacBook Pro in 2021, an iPad Pro, and an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Most of my day to day consists of a split between, you know, doing a lot of meetings, programming, and a bit of design on the side. For those meetings, I use a Sony Alpha s 6,400 with a 16 mil Sigma prime lens. I do have an Elgato prompter to make it look like I'm looking at you instead of a screen off to the side, and I use a Blue Yeti mic, a Yeti x. I also use a Logi Lytra glow for a little bit of extra light. And when the meetings are a little bit less interesting, I have a little Tetris micro cart on my desk, off screen. Don't tell anyone. When it comes to software, let's take a look at the dock left to right first. First and foremost, I use Arc as a browser. I'm the type of person that doesn't really do more than five taps open at a time or I'm losing my mind. So Arc's organization tools for renaming tabs, making folders, having spaces has really been a game changer for my productivity in that space. Although, I do have to admit, tabs that go to a different space go there to die and then get deleted anyways after a long while. For the basic Smell calendar reminders, I use the Apple standard apps. I have tried every new calendar app that comes out. I love experimenting with them. But at the end of the day, I always find myself coming back to the default ones as they basically do what I need them to do and nothing more. Right? They're very pleasing. At Directus, we use Notion for note taking. In meetings, we have a bunch of different teams and a bunch of documents. It's a bit unstructured, but that's kind of the beauty of Notion. And we use Linear for task management. So Linear, think of it as GitHub Issues as a separate app, which has really elevated our productivity in the especially the product team. Then we use Slack for communication with the team internally, and we use Discord for communication with the larger community of users, of Triactus. When I'm programming, I similarly to calendar apps. I've tried, various different apps. I recently tried Zed. I've been using some of the JetBrains stuff. I've been on Coda two way back in the day when that was a thing. I've tried Nova. I always come back to Versus Code for the last couple of years. I've set that up very customized. I'm one of the the weird ones that does it in light mode, with a three tap space setting. And I use iTerm on the side because I cannot deal with the built in terminal. Just a personal preference thing. For debugging databases, I'm a huge fan of TablePlus. So TablePlus is kind of PHPMyAdmin as a native app, but they support effectively every database under the sun, which is very, very nice. You have to learn the tool once, and then you can just use it, which is great for raw database management, so direct, you know, columns or insertions into databases. On the flip side of that, I used RapidAPI, previously known as Paul, as an API debugging tool. So it's kind of similar to Postman or Hopscotch or some of those tools, but as a magnated app. I'm still a UX designer at heart, so apps looking nice is a huge reason for me to use them over something else. Then we use Figma for all the design files. I am a very big fan of FigJam as well for quick notes and figuring out projects and doing more product design, or user experience design. And then last but not least, we have Reader and Ivory. So Reader is an RSS feed reader. I use that to stay up to date with a bunch of blogs and personal blogs that I like to follow for any news in the tech industry or improvements to the web platform or any other interesting developments. And I use Ivory as my client for the Vedaverse. So I'm part of the Fostodon server right now, and I try to follow, again, interesting people on the Internet. And then last but not least, on the doctor's Spotify, I always got music playing. I mostly listen to everything is what I'm realizing now. There's there's a lot of pop funky stuff in there. There's a lot of alt rock in there, and there's a lot of a little bit of pop sometimes if I just want to focus a little bit and not care about music. Sometimes, I have my own stuff on repeat to get the numbers up, because you gotta game the system a little bit. Outside of the dock, I am a huge fan of a new app that just came out from Syndra called Scratchpad, which is just a little icon in your menu bar. The only thing it does is it just opens a tiny note, and it goes away when you click it again. So it's just great for a quick, in the middle of a meeting, I have to jot something down. I don't know where it goes. I need to have something to write in within a split second. Fantastic for that. I use 1Password for all of the password management. Couldn't do without. Use CleanShot for screenshots and screen recordings. Highly recommend that one. That is one I cannot do without nowadays. And then the main thing that I install on every machine every time is called Paste. So it's a clipboard manager, similar to the reasoning behind Repit API. It's a MEC native thing. It feels like it was designed by Apple, and I'm sure they get shirts at some point, and I'd be sad when that happens. To write. What else? What else do we have here? Oh, yeah. So the the the hobby stops. Sorry. Outside of work, I like to write and play a lot of music. So one thing I have right off at my desk here is just there's an acoustic guitar sitting ready to go in a demo at any moment. You see, of course, you know, some guitars on the wall. There's there's too many in my apartment here. For that, on the computer, I use Logic Pro to record through my, line six HX stomp XL as an interface. And other than that what do we got going on in here? Oh, yeah. Less little desk gadgets. I brought it up. Before, I have a little Tetris micro card. I don't know if they still make them, but this this gets used a little bit too much in the day. Great way to take a little break. I have an analog Nixie clock sitting here on my desk as a way to keep the time, as if that's not a thing on my computer. And one sort of guilty pleasure that I thought it was gonna be stupid, but I cannot do without nowadays, is an ember mug. They're the most again, when I when I bought it, I thought it was gonna be stupid as hell, and now I'm hooked. So recommend one of those as well. I have a little, Belkin wireless charger to prop my phone up and, Sonos on the desk for all of the music that I previously mentioned. And I think that's everything I have around me.","99bce9bc-f32f-486e-8c4b-bd7a57ae6ba9",[257],"471218ab-24c4-4cd0-8af6-11f2d9115cde",[],{"id":134,"number":131,"show":122,"year":135,"episodes":260},[137,138],{"id":138,"slug":262,"vimeo_id":263,"description":264,"tile":265,"length":266,"resources":8,"people":8,"episode_number":131,"published":267,"title":268,"video_transcript_html":269,"video_transcript_text":270,"content":8,"seo":271,"status":130,"episode_people":272,"recommendations":274,"season":275},"what's-in-your-dock-bryant","1065051930","Bryant Gillespie, Growth Engineer at Directus takes us through his most used apps and websites.","17792489-5d2e-4082-be35-6650885aeda6",8,"2025-03-12","What's in your Dock, Bryant?","\u003Cp>Speaker 0: Hey, hey. Brian here from Directus and I I guess today I'm actually breaking down what's in my dock. Now our CTO, Wrike, did one of these videos not too long ago and there's a lot of overlap in our setups. So I'll try to cover some of the apps that he didn't mention, but if you haven't checked out his video, definitely give it a watch to see what he's running. Alright, so let's dive in.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Right? Onto like my main squeezes, the daily drivers. First up has got to be Missive. Hands down, the only email app you'll ever need. I've been using it for years.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Now what makes it special? Well, I can manage both work and personal inboxes in a single app. That's the biggest thing. No more bouncing between Gmail tabs or different applications. And, you know, if you're working with a team, the collaboration features are killer, especially if you're just sharing inboxes with said team.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Alright. Next up is gonna be Raycast. I use that for navigating and launching apps, and I was an Alford user for a lot of years. Even built a few plugins for that, but, honestly, Raycast blows it out of the water. Quick app switching, the clipboard history is probably what I use most.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>It's just become one of those tools that I can't imagine working without anymore. I do pay for the Pro plan, but honestly, I don't use the AI features a ton because the experience is just a little clunky compared to some of the dedicated apps. For API work, I'm using Bruno. If you've caught any of my 100 Apps one hundred Hours episodes, you've probably seen me using it to make API calls. It's a great open source alternative to Postman, the interface is a lot cleaner, and it's been super reliable for me.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I've also recently switched to Orb Stack as a replacement for Docker Desktop. It seems to be a lot lighter on resources, it starts up a lot faster for me, and it it really just feels more native. So definitely give it a look. Now, on to videos, which is what I get asked about most. So, like my setup, I get questions on all the time on the YouTube channel, both privately in the Discord community and sometimes via email.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We do a lot of different styles of videos, so I'm gonna do a quick breakdown here of what I'm using. As far as the video apps, Loom is my go to for sharing quick updates with the Direct Discord team or within the Directus community. If you need to explain a bug or show how something works, just click Record, boom, I get a link to share and then I'm done. That's it. For those UI focused recordings where you see me zipping around the screen, with all the slick animations, I'm using Screen Studio.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>It automatically adds those smooth zooms and highlights, and it makes just UI demos way more engaging. 99% of the time audio is off for those videos. When I need something more robust for longer form content, I'm using ScreenFlow. The editing capabilities within it are super quick and lightweight. It's perfect for me to put out, quick, but yet still polished videos.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Most of the time though, I'm exporting for our main man, Nat, who is our editor. And Nat, you should probably edit yourself in here taking a battle somewhere because you are freaking amazing. And then the little mouse highlight pointy thing that everybody asks about, that's Mouse Pose. It's a nice simple little tool with a hot key, it makes following those cursor movements so much easier for viewers, and I've been using it for so long, like, using it to explain stuff has become second nature to me. As far as the video gear that I'm using, on the hardware side, my mic is the Rode VideoMic NTG.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>It's a bit older, maybe like five, six years old, but the sound quality is incredible for the price point, and I can use it both on my camera or mounted on my desktop here. The headphones that you always see me in are Sony WH-one thousand XM5s. I recently upgraded because my dog got a hold of the old pair. These are pretty pricey, but, I've got three little girls so the noise cancellation is definitely worth it to me. Everything plugs into a CalDigit TS USB hub.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I've got the TS three plus. There's a newer version available, but this one has worked for me for years. I still can't get to that one cable nirvana though because I've got two of these, LG five k displays and my MacBook Pro doesn't run all of that through a single cable. For the camera, I've got a Sony a 6,400 with a Sigma sixteen millimeter lens. That's what gives me that nice bokeh effect that you see in the background.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>All that is connected through an Elgato Cam Link four k, which converts the HDMI signal to USB and lets me plug that into the computer. The mood lights in the background, those are Govee light bars. I think that's how you pronounce it. I have their iPhone app so I can just change the vibe depending on what I'm recording or, you know, sometimes my mood that particular day. If it's Christmas, I can turn on Christmas lights.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Amazing. Alright. So for a little more spicier territory, AI. Right? You've probably seen me use AI in some of the hundred apps, hundred hours episodes if you've caught any.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>But here's what I'm actually using day to day. Claude has become my daily driver. It's part of my workflow in some form just about every single day. I could be using it for, like, creating ASCII art for a rabbit that I need for a CLI app. Don't judge me.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Or summarizing documents or content that I don't have time to read. Recently used it for, like, health insurance research. Or, you know, work related. I'm writing meta descriptions for blog posts or, Directus TV episodes. I'm also using Cursor for coding, which, you know, I have a love hate relationship with at the moment.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Auto completion works amazingly well probably 75, 80 percent of the time for what I use it for. But most of the LLMs still have the older Directus SDK syntax memorized, so you have to prompt it a bit to pull that out of it. The agent feature in cursor is is interesting. You know, I've used it on some greenfield projects or some new features. With existing code bases though, it's kinda been, a bit of a mixed bag for me.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Also AI wise, I've been playing a lot with replicate. I don't have a ton of time. I've got three little girls. So, like, setting up all these models and trying to run them locally for me is is not an option or just something I'm not willing to commit to. So, for image generation, I've been playing around with the Flux models.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So if you've seen any weird AI generated images, from me that's where they're coming from. I like replicate because it's quick and easy to experiment, and I've even run a couple of fine tunes using their platform. So that's it. You know, the tools I use mostly just to help me get the job done quickly. I'll see you in the community and on Directus TV.\u003C/p>","Hey, hey. Brian here from Directus and I I guess today I'm actually breaking down what's in my dock. Now our CTO, Wrike, did one of these videos not too long ago and there's a lot of overlap in our setups. So I'll try to cover some of the apps that he didn't mention, but if you haven't checked out his video, definitely give it a watch to see what he's running. Alright, so let's dive in. Right? Onto like my main squeezes, the daily drivers. First up has got to be Missive. Hands down, the only email app you'll ever need. I've been using it for years. Now what makes it special? Well, I can manage both work and personal inboxes in a single app. That's the biggest thing. No more bouncing between Gmail tabs or different applications. And, you know, if you're working with a team, the collaboration features are killer, especially if you're just sharing inboxes with said team. Alright. Next up is gonna be Raycast. I use that for navigating and launching apps, and I was an Alford user for a lot of years. Even built a few plugins for that, but, honestly, Raycast blows it out of the water. Quick app switching, the clipboard history is probably what I use most. It's just become one of those tools that I can't imagine working without anymore. I do pay for the Pro plan, but honestly, I don't use the AI features a ton because the experience is just a little clunky compared to some of the dedicated apps. For API work, I'm using Bruno. If you've caught any of my 100 Apps one hundred Hours episodes, you've probably seen me using it to make API calls. It's a great open source alternative to Postman, the interface is a lot cleaner, and it's been super reliable for me. I've also recently switched to Orb Stack as a replacement for Docker Desktop. It seems to be a lot lighter on resources, it starts up a lot faster for me, and it it really just feels more native. So definitely give it a look. Now, on to videos, which is what I get asked about most. So, like my setup, I get questions on all the time on the YouTube channel, both privately in the Discord community and sometimes via email. We do a lot of different styles of videos, so I'm gonna do a quick breakdown here of what I'm using. As far as the video apps, Loom is my go to for sharing quick updates with the Direct Discord team or within the Directus community. If you need to explain a bug or show how something works, just click Record, boom, I get a link to share and then I'm done. That's it. For those UI focused recordings where you see me zipping around the screen, with all the slick animations, I'm using Screen Studio. It automatically adds those smooth zooms and highlights, and it makes just UI demos way more engaging. 99% of the time audio is off for those videos. When I need something more robust for longer form content, I'm using ScreenFlow. The editing capabilities within it are super quick and lightweight. It's perfect for me to put out, quick, but yet still polished videos. Most of the time though, I'm exporting for our main man, Nat, who is our editor. And Nat, you should probably edit yourself in here taking a battle somewhere because you are freaking amazing. And then the little mouse highlight pointy thing that everybody asks about, that's Mouse Pose. It's a nice simple little tool with a hot key, it makes following those cursor movements so much easier for viewers, and I've been using it for so long, like, using it to explain stuff has become second nature to me. As far as the video gear that I'm using, on the hardware side, my mic is the Rode VideoMic NTG. It's a bit older, maybe like five, six years old, but the sound quality is incredible for the price point, and I can use it both on my camera or mounted on my desktop here. The headphones that you always see me in are Sony WH-one thousand XM5s. I recently upgraded because my dog got a hold of the old pair. These are pretty pricey, but, I've got three little girls so the noise cancellation is definitely worth it to me. Everything plugs into a CalDigit TS USB hub. I've got the TS three plus. There's a newer version available, but this one has worked for me for years. I still can't get to that one cable nirvana though because I've got two of these, LG five k displays and my MacBook Pro doesn't run all of that through a single cable. For the camera, I've got a Sony a 6,400 with a Sigma sixteen millimeter lens. That's what gives me that nice bokeh effect that you see in the background. All that is connected through an Elgato Cam Link four k, which converts the HDMI signal to USB and lets me plug that into the computer. The mood lights in the background, those are Govee light bars. I think that's how you pronounce it. I have their iPhone app so I can just change the vibe depending on what I'm recording or, you know, sometimes my mood that particular day. If it's Christmas, I can turn on Christmas lights. Amazing. Alright. So for a little more spicier territory, AI. Right? You've probably seen me use AI in some of the hundred apps, hundred hours episodes if you've caught any. But here's what I'm actually using day to day. Claude has become my daily driver. It's part of my workflow in some form just about every single day. I could be using it for, like, creating ASCII art for a rabbit that I need for a CLI app. Don't judge me. Or summarizing documents or content that I don't have time to read. Recently used it for, like, health insurance research. Or, you know, work related. I'm writing meta descriptions for blog posts or, Directus TV episodes. I'm also using Cursor for coding, which, you know, I have a love hate relationship with at the moment. Auto completion works amazingly well probably 75, 80 percent of the time for what I use it for. But most of the LLMs still have the older Directus SDK syntax memorized, so you have to prompt it a bit to pull that out of it. The agent feature in cursor is is interesting. You know, I've used it on some greenfield projects or some new features. With existing code bases though, it's kinda been, a bit of a mixed bag for me. Also AI wise, I've been playing a lot with replicate. I don't have a ton of time. I've got three little girls. So, like, setting up all these models and trying to run them locally for me is is not an option or just something I'm not willing to commit to. So, for image generation, I've been playing around with the Flux models. So if you've seen any weird AI generated images, from me that's where they're coming from. I like replicate because it's quick and easy to experiment, and I've even run a couple of fine tunes using their platform. So that's it. You know, the tools I use mostly just to help me get the job done quickly. 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