[Music] foreign [Music]. So, every year, it's become kind of a tradition to do one of these desk setup tours because my setup is constantly changing and evolving and probably wasting money on things that I don't need. But I feel like it's important to keep your environment fresh and be in a place you want to work in, especially if you're like me and you spend over eight hours a day at your desk. Speaking of a desk, it's from Ikea and it's called the Karlby. It's in Walnut, and it's actually not even a desk, it's a countertop that I had to drill holes at the bottom of and connect the standing desk legs to. The standing desk legs are from Flexispot. The desk itself I've had it for about over a year and I absolutely love it. It's six feet long, it's very solid, stable, and I get a lot of compliments on it. All right, so I don't even know where to begin, let's just start with the keyboard. This is a custom mechanical

keyboard it's the Keychron K1 75 layout with Blue switches, which are the extra clicky ones. They have the Glorious pudding PBT keycaps. For all you keyboard nerds out there, I upgraded the cord since apparently you need one of these cords that looks like an old landline phone. If you ever told me I'd spend $30 on a keyboard cable, I'd say you were crazy, but here we are. For my mouse, I'm rocking the Logitech G503. It's connected to, a lot of people don't know what this is, the Razer Bungee V3. So it's really just for raising the wire of your mouse so you don't get that wire drag when you're moving it around, and it won't get caught in things. It's mostly made for gaming. Some of you may ask, Why don't you just get a wireless mouse? It's really because I don't like wireless peripherals, especially if you're playing a shooter.

game, which obviously I'm known for my high-octane gameplay. It does make a difference. I also will have the extra-large Corsair mouse pad with RGB because you can never have too much RGB. Actually, that's not true. Too much RGB gives me a headache. Up here, you might have missed it. This is the BenQ desktop lamp. And when I first got it, I was like, This was a waste of money. Why did I get it? But after having it for a few weeks, it completely lights up my workspace. And yeah, I was basically working in the dark before. For my mic, I'm rocking the Rode PodMic, and it's connected to the Elgato LP mic stand. The mic is connected to the GoXLR, which is just a very nice XLR interface. Next up, we have the Audioengine A2 wireless speakers, which aren't very wireless, to be honest, but they look great on my desk. I love the matte black finish. I will say, though, they sound a little flat to me, so I'll probably get a subwoofer because you know when you

finally solved that bug and you want to break into some dance moves. You need something that really thumps. Here we have my newest purchase, which is my AirPods Max. Yeah, they are definitely expensive, but I couldn't be more impressed with them. I can wear these pretty much all day, and they feel great and they sound great. A little heavy, but this little like mesh thing here makes it so it doesn't hurt on the top of my head. So yeah, definitely not a spontaneous purchase that I regret. All right, I feel like there's something big here that I haven't talked about yet, but I can't remember, so I'm just going to talk about this monitor. This is the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9. It's a 49-inch 4K 240-hertz Ultra wide monitor, which my PC can't even do 240 hertz, so I run it at 120. I'm usually running two PCs on this, so my PC on the left and my Mac on the right. Let me show you. So as you can see

here I have my Windows PC on the left, and I have my Mac on the right, and the really cool thing is, is that I use this software called Synergy. It's about thirty dollars and allows me to seamlessly move my cursor from one computer to the other. So, I don't know if you can see that, but I have my mouse on the Mac, and then I just move it there, and it's on the PC. It's way better than having like a KVM switch, which is just another piece of hardware, and I have to push a button every time I want to switch computers. It does get a little bit glitchy from here and there, but it just takes a second to restart it, and it's able to recalibrate. I do have a few products from Grovemade, which they were nice enough to send over. So, like this, for example, is a pen and pencil holder. They also have these really nice leather coasters. I also do have these PlayStation coasters. These aren't from Grovemade, but I just think they

look cool. And then my favorite piece is this laptop stand over here for my MacBook Pro. I'm running the 2018 MacBook Pro 15 inch, which is what I've been doing all my development on lately. I do have this gaming PC. I'm not going to go over every spec, but I do have these RGB fans that I installed myself, which I was pretty proud of. Hey, I'm a software guy, not a hardware guy, okay? So I actually mounted my PC to the bottom of my desk, and the reason I did this is so when I put the standing desk in standing mode, I don't have to worry about leaving enough slack for my cables. Cable management is super important to me. As you can see, this is, sorry, this is a vertical video that I posted on Instagram. The cable management was awful, and I was able to get it down to only two wires hanging down from my desk. So I have a power strip mounted to the bottom of my desk, which was what everything plugs into, and then I have that one cable that goes

into the wall, and then I also have, of course, my ethernet cable, but you can hardly see it because it's a white cable on a white wall, so I just really love having that kind of clean, no cable look. It just makes me feel, I don't know, it just makes feel things feel a little less cluttered. The mount itself is the Vivo pc04, and it came in silver, so I spray painted it black just so it matches the rest of my desk. I also have these blue light glasses, which help with eye fatigue. I could just change my monitor settings to block the blue light, but then if I'm ever doing like color correction or anything like that, I have to go into the menu settings, and it's confusing and slow. I have to do that every time, which is annoying. It's just a lot easier to use these glasses. For my chair, I'm using the Herman Miller gaming chair, and it's called the gaming chair because it's all black, but it looks so damn sexy. Yes, I just called the chair

sexy, but it really helps for ergonomics. It's cool because it's got a mesh, you know, and it feels like it just kind of feels like you're in a hammock because it has a lot of give to it. And then for the headrest, I'm using this Atlas headrest, which is like two hundred dollars, which is crazy, but I definitely feel like I do need a headrest. It does look better without it, but you know, my neck tenses up a lot, especially when I'm coding, so you know, I feel like it's necessary for me. And then of course, you have to have a trash can nearby. Um, this is, I want to say, yeah, probably the most important thing in this entire desk setup. You know, as programmers, we're eating snacks all the time. We don't want that. I don't have to have to get up and throw the wrapper away. So these are just, you know, have it under my desk. So a couple of things that I want to talk about that aren't directly on my desk is

one this acoustic foam in the background pretty expensive for acoustic foam but it looks a lot better and more effective than kind of like that cheap at foam that you see everyone get from Amazon. It almost looks like a piece of art on the wall, which is why I like it, and it does a good job of absorbing sound. Grid Studio sent me a couple of frames, which I think are absolutely awesome. Don't tell them, but I probably would have bought them if they didn't send them to me for free. But the first one is this Game Boy. You know, you know me, I'm a big gamer. I don't have as much time the game as I used to, but but I'm still a fan. So this one is the original Game Boy, all the pieces broken apart. It's just something cool to have when people come over. And look at this other one right here is the iPhone 3GS, which I wanted to get the original iPhone, but they were sold out. But this one is cool because it's the first iPhone I ever got. I also

have this three-device charger which is not on my desk. Let me get it. So, this is able to charge my phone, my AirPods, as well as my watch at the same time. So just a super convenient thing. I don't have to have like three wires for each thing. I can just put them all on here and it charges everything pretty quickly. I also have this drawing pad here. I really wanted to get an iPad because it's kind of hard to like draw with this. You have to draw and look at the screen. I do want to get back into data structures and algorithms tutorials, and this is great for diagramming stuff out. So definitely need to wipe the dust off of this. And then finally, we have I just have a foot stand here, which is great for when I'm sitting. And then since I have hardwood floors when I'm standing, I got this, uh, kind of, I don't know what do you call it, a standing pad just because it hurts to stand on hardwood for long periods of time. I will

try to. I don't know why I keep leaning over like this. I will try to leave a link for everything down in the description. I'll actually just put everything in my Amazon shop and leave a link to that. So if you want to use that, they are affiliate links, so they do help out the channel. So I do appreciate that. Hope you guys enjoyed the desk setup. Um, we'll probably be back next year because I'm always, even though I feel like it's perfect right now, in a year from now, I'll probably, you know, probably change it up again. Yeah, that's all for this video. Thank you guys so much for watching. And as always, keep on coding.

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