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**Kevin Ball:** Yeah. |
**Nick Nisi:** Nice. |
**Kevin Ball:** I occasionally think about getting a nicer keyboard... I usually don't bother, but if you have great recommendations, I might invest. |
**Nick Nisi:** I'll go next, since mine is kind of boring, and it's almost the same... I use the Apple Magic Keyboard. The reason I started using this is because I wanted a seamless setup between when I'm using this, versus when I'm just working on the laptop straight... And now I pretty much almost never work on the l... |
Right behind me I have a Keychron K3, that I got a month or two ago, thinking I would try and use that a little bit more... And I cannot get used to it. I've tried so hard, but I just feel so clumsy with it all the time. I know I just need to invest more time, but this just feels so good. So this is what I use. |
**Brian Douglas:** \[47:41\] I use a $49 mechanical keyboard from Amazon called Magicforce. It comes in three different flavors - brows, red cherry, red and then the blue switches. Blues are the most clickity clackity. I've got two of them - I've got the blue, and then I've got the... Actually what is this -- the cherr... |
So my co-worker -- actually, the CTO of Netlify, I sat with him, and he was like the whole separate keyboard person, so I just asked a lot of questions, and I was like "I'm actually gonna try this one out." And I enjoyed it enough that I bought two - one for traveling and one for at home. |
**Nick Nisi:** Nice. |
**Kevin Ball:** Alright, I might have to try... Especially given you said it's pretty cheap, so... |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah, it's low effort. Magicforce. |
**Nick Nisi:** We'll try and drop a link in the show notes for that. As far as other peripherals go, I tend to have a mouse on the right side, and I just have the Apple Magic mouse, and I have a trackpad on the left side. And I whichever hand is free, I gravitate towards that as I'm going. But as a Vim user, I do try a... |
**Brian Douglas:** I find that funny, that you could use both sides. I'm left-handed, but I've just been trained to use my right hand before the trackpad. |
**Nick Nisi:** Really? Nice. |
**Brian Douglas:** I also need \[unintelligible 00:49:26.10\] correction. It's $39. It's not a $49 keyboard, it's $39. And I'll add a link. |
**Nick Nisi:** Nice. It's even better. We're kind of running a little low on time, so I think what we should do maybe is go around-the-horn and talk about one more hardware item that you think really makes your setup or is a favorite part of your setup that's not your monitor, keyboard or mouse. Kball, how about you go... |
**Kevin Ball:** Hm... Alright, I'm gonna go off the walls, and I'm gonna say my favorite thing/biggest recommendation is actually getting kettlebells. |
**Nick Nisi:** Nice! |
**Kevin Ball:** Because as a computer programmer you're sitting all the freaking time. You're sitting, you're coding, you're doing stuff... It's really bad for your back. What we do will rip your back up. So you need to have some sort of exercise routine to clean that up. I have this last year fallen in love with kettl... |
I went on vacation, we went in the car, and I took a single 50-pound kettlebell and I could do a ton of different exercises with it, and I get a full-body workout just carrying it along. Super-easy. Kettlebell swings, and get-ups or a couple other things and you've got your whole body worked out right away. It's good f... |
**Nick Nisi:** As someone who built a home gym since the start of quarantine, I can say that kettlebells were the first thing that I looked for. They were one of the hardest things to find, and I don't think that's the case now, but they are invaluable. I try to use them in every workout, just because they're nice. I l... |
**Brian Douglas:** I've mentioned earlier I'm cheap, but I did splurge last year on a new camera. It's a combo - it's the camera and the lends, and I think the lens is really what makes the shot that I have right now. If anybody's seen me stream, or been on a Zoom call with me, you understand the \[unintelligible 00:51... |
\[52:07\] The Canon - you do have to have a dummy battery. I'm not a Canon fan, but my wife already had a Canon camera, so it just made sense to get the Canon instead of the Sony, at least memory cards transfer, and stuff like that. |
But the thing that really makes it is a Sigma 16mm lens. It's a lens that -- you can't see it in the podcast, but it's about maybe 4-5 inches long, and it actually gives you that sort of... Far enough from enough from your face, but it's big enough to actually give you that \[unintelligible 00:52:32.01\] YouTube-esque ... |
The camera was about $499, or around that number, and the lens was about $300-something... And like I said, I splurged on it; I did not want to buy this, but it was on my wishlist for the longest time, and then I saved up enough money and got a bonus, and I was like "You know what - I think I'm gonna go ahead and purch... |
**Nick Nisi:** Nice. You look fantastic. |
**Brian Douglas:** Oh, thank you. |
**Nick Nisi:** The mixture of that -- like, that with the \[unintelligible 00:53:05.04\] that you have on the pizza slice behind you, plus... We didn't talk about it earlier, but it looks like you have fantastic lighting, which I think also makes the setup, you know? |
**Brian Douglas:** The trick is to actually close all the windows and cover them with blackout curtains. You can control the lighting as much as possible. Because a lot of times you're trying to fight the window or what time of the day it is... It took me a long time to figure this out, but - just put up blackout curta... |
**Nick Nisi:** Nice. Well, you've got it figured out, I can tell you that. It looks great. |
**Brian Douglas:** Yeah. YouTube taught me everything I know. |
**Nick Nisi:** What can't you learn from YouTube? It's great. \[laughs\] I will go ahead and close out with a recommendation -- I think I will go with this monitor arm that I have. I really like it. It clamps to the desk, and then it's just like a VESA mount. So it screws into four screws on the back of the monitor... ... |
So yeah, I really like it... And it's just a cheap one. It's the Amazon Basics -- I think it's like $100, but it's an Amazon Basics brand monitor arm, and it works really well. |
Well, that concludes our setup show for today. We kind of went long in the software and productivity parts... And we can post links to things and more info in the show notes, so definitely check those out. Thank you for tuning in, Brian; thank you for joining us this week. It's been a lot of fun. |
**Brian Douglas:** Thank you. It was a pleasure. |
**Nick Nisi:** We will see you next week. |
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