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**Brian Douglas:** Yeah, and we thank you for that. |
**Nick Nisi:** Speaking of my to-do list though... I'll kind of talk about my setup a little bit, which is not nearly as robust, but does have a little bit of automation, which I'm pretty excited about... I use more closed tools, obviously, than GitHub. I don't think you can be more open than that... But I use a tool c... |
And then every morning I run through a checklist of things that I need to do as kind of like a morning routine to start up, and that includes things like finding out if there are code reviews that I've been assigned. And the way I do that is through -- OmniFocus has this whole automation system built in JavaScript that... |
And then another script that runs that will go and check JIRA's API, find any tasks that I'm assigned to that are not already in my system, and it will put them in there... But it will also check the ones that I have in there, and go check their status on JIRA, and if I've marked them as done in JIRA, it'll mark them a... |
\[36:01\] Then I just have this one place that I'm checking for everything, and I can work off of there throughout the day... And what I do with the JIRA tasks - a lot of times I'll just write up all of the different things that I need to do. I have some templates that I keep track of for typical dev work... It's like ... |
I try and use all of that, and it's really cool, because it's kind of automated, and pushing and pulling from GitHub and JIRA, but it's all coming to a single inbox for me to review. |
**Kevin Ball:** Man, I am simultaneously jealous of your setups, and grateful for the simplicity of my approach... \[laughter\] I'm like "That's amazing!", and I would forget something, or something would go stale, and I feel like I'd spend forever maintaining my setup. |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah, I like that... Actually, I've heard of OmniFocus, but I've never dug into it... But you have me intrigued. |
**Nick Nisi:** It's pretty cool. It's the complete opposite of yours, though. It's an expensive tool. I think it's like $80, or it costs so much per -- it's a different price for Mac, and iPhone, and iPad... |
**Brian Douglas:** Okay, yeah. |
**Nick Nisi:** And it's Apple-only... |
**Brian Douglas:** Oh, wow. |
**Nick Nisi:** \[unintelligible 00:38:06.09\] |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah, you lost me at $80. |
**Nick Nisi:** Yeah, I know... \[laughs\] I've been using it for years though, so it's kind of -- I've definitely absorbed that payment, and I think that it's brought me enough value that it's been worth it... But I totally understand. |
**Brian Douglas:** Not to bring up Vim one more time, but this is why I'm so ingrained, because I did so much investing in my dotfiles that it's hard to just let those go... |
**Nick Nisi:** Me too, yeah. I mean, it's also fast, and it's fantastic, so there's that, too... But yeah, at this point - I shouldn't say this, but I feel like my identity is tied to it a little bit. |
**Kevin Ball:** No...! |
**Break:** \[38:42\] |
**Nick Nisi:** Alright, so we've talked about software that we use for development, we've talked about productivity software... Now let's talk about some hardware that we use. What do we actually look at touch/feel through the day to get our jobs done? What are the tangible pieces? Because that's very important when we... |
**Brian Douglas:** I do have an ultra-wide monitor. I think three years ago I jumped on the bandwagon, and I love it. I use Spectacle as well as software to manage my windows. With Spectacle I can have my Vim here, I can have my terminal here, I can have a web browser, and I can have them all three up at the same time,... |
**Nick Nisi:** Yeah. What do you have, 34", 38", 49"? |
**Brian Douglas:** I believe this one is 34". |
**Nick Nisi:** Okay. Thanks. I'm in the same boat. I have a 38", but I went ultra-wide, too. I kind of switched between this, and I did have two 4K monitors. Everything was just to small and too scattered. I use Moom for the same thing as Spectacle, to keep things organized... But it was just too much to handle, so I k... |
**Kevin Ball:** When I'm working on the frontend I really like having a widescreen, because I like to have my design and my browser and my terminal all visible at the same time, to be able to be working. When I'm doing backend work, I actually don't care that much. I'm totally happy working just on a laptop screen, and... |
**Brian Douglas:** There is a new Chrome extension that I've just started using... It's called Easy Window Resize as well. I don't know how much content creation y'all do, or the listeners do as well, but I learned from an Egghead course creator about being able to -- because of the large window size, sometimes you wan... |
**Kevin Ball:** That's a great idea. |
**Brian Douglas:** Because trying to get 16:9 out of the browser doing it by eye never works... And then obviously, Mac laptops are not 16:9, they're awkward. I know we were going into hardware, but the other thing I use is RDM. RDM actually lets you -- because the laptop screen is Retina for MacBooks, but if you want ... |
**Nick Nisi:** Oh, cool. Yeah, that kind of brings in a question I was gonna ask you, as someone who is much more prolific on Twitch than I am, how you work with an ultra-wide monitor on Twitch, since it's not very well-suited for that? |
**Brian Douglas:** \[44:02\] Yeah, I mean -- this might go deeper in the hardware conversation too, as well. So I have a Windows, because I've found livestreaming from just a Mac and running code -- so if I do anything Docker or anything, Twitch streaming is just not gonna work, because there's not enough power, and th... |
**Nick Nisi:** So then are you physically working on the Mac? |
**Brian Douglas:** Yes. I honestly do not know how to code on Windows... |
**Nick Nisi:** Who does...? \[laughs\] |
**Brian Douglas:** I'm so used to Mac that I don't even wanna attempt to try to open up the terminal and try to do that... I'd much rather -- I'm way more comfortable with all the commands on the Mac, so it's just emulating it... Well, not even emulating; I'm just piping it into the PC, and then up to the internet. |
**Nick Nisi:** But the way that it's piping in - is it piping in the whole screen, or just a portion of the screen? |
**Brian Douglas:** It's the whole screen. |
**Nick Nisi:** The whole screen? |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah. I give my whole screen up. |
**Nick Nisi:** Okay. |
**Brian Douglas:** And then that gives me the entire widescreen. So I'm actually coding and sharing my MacBook, but the entire widescreen is where I have the chat up, I've got the Chrome browser up over here, I've got my mixer program up... So I'm able to do all that stuff on the big screen and just share the small scr... |
**Nick Nisi:** Cool. Yeah, this is super-interesting to me, just from like someone who wants to someday Twitch coding, or things like that... But also running meetups, and getting the best output from that, or all of this remote stuff that we do. Teaching is another thing, but also just general sharing throughout the d... |
**Kevin Ball:** Yeah, that resize extension I'm super-excited about. |
**Nick Nisi:** Yeah. |
**Kevin Ball:** That's like, "Whoa, you've just changed my life right there." |
**Brian Douglas:** That's awesome. I've just learned of it this week. I was always setting Spectacle up to do proper -- not even proper; like, hacky resizing to what I think is gonna be 1080p... |
**Nick Nisi:** Nice. |
**Brian Douglas:** But I will say that the majority of what I learned, I learned this year from being stuck at home. It's just like lots of research, lots of YouTube videos... |
**Nick Nisi:** Yeah. How about another tangible piece of your setup... How about keyboards? What is your keyboard like? Kball, I'll ask you first. Right now it's a MacBook -- |
**Kevin Ball:** I use the laptop keyboard... |
**Nick Nisi:** Yeah. \[laughs\] Is that what you use full-time? |
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