In this episode, Donn outlines how you can optimize your home office so that you look, sound, and perform the best that you can. From audio to video, to your body, and everything beyond, it's covered here.

In this episode, Donn outlines how you can optimize your home office so that you look, sound, and perform the best that you can. From audio to video, to your body, and everything beyond, it's covered here.

Donn talks about everything you can do to improve your home office. From microphones, lighting, and webcams for your video calls to chairs, standing desks, and more. This episode has all the links below for all the products discussed.

Take even 20% of the recommendations and apply them to your home office and you'll see a drastic difference in your productivity and happiness in your home office.

Microphones

• Audio-Technica ATR2100x-USB
• Blue Snowball
• Blue Yeti
• Shure MV7
• Shure SM7B (High End) & CloudLifter
  • Lower Cost Preamp
  • High End Preamp

Boom arms for Mics

• Rode PSA 1 Boom Arm
• Heil PL-2T
• Gator Frameworks Boom (same one used on Joe Rogans podcast)

Webcams

• Logitech C920x HD
• Logitech Brio Ultra HD 4k
• DSLR HDMI Capture Card by Elgato - Camlink 4k

Docking Hub

• CalDigit TS3 Docking Hub for Mac
• Brydge Vertical Dock for Mac

Lighting

• LumeCube Video Conference Lighting Kit
• LumeCube Suction Cup Mount (indluced in kit above)
• Benq Desklap (high end)

Headphones

JVC Xtreme-Xplosivs Wired Earbuds - Donn's Go to

Sony MDR-7506 Professional Headphone

Audio Technical M20x

No, I don't use Bluetooth headsets at work, though many do. If they work for you, you might want to check out the Audio Technica ATHM50XBT's or the Bose Quiet Comfort 35's

Chairs

• Herman Miller Aeron - make sure you know your size
• Herman Miller Mirra
• Steelcase Leap V2

Standing Desk

• Autonomous AI Standing Desks
• IKEA Bekant Standing Desk
• Jarvis Standing Desks
• VariDesk Adjustable Standing Desk

Anti-Fatigue Mats

• ErgoDriven Topo Comfort Mat
• Cheap Anti-Fatigue Mat

Monitor and Monitor Arms

• LG 5K Monitor - this thing is amazing
• Amazon Basics Monitor Arm
• Ergotron Tall Monitor Mount (this is what I have)

Keyboard

• Kinesis Advantage 2 (my keyboard)
• Moonlander Keyboard

Mouse

• Magic Trackpad
• Logitech Trackman Marble Ergonomic Mouse
• Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball Mouse

Air Quality

• Awair Element
• DHH Video on Air Quality

Focus Music

• Brain.fm
• Coffitivity
• Freedom.to
• HeyFocus Mac App
• Serene Blocker
• Cold Turkey

Mobility, Desk Ergo, and Back Pain Resources

• Deskbound Book
• 8 Steps to a Pain Free Back
• Foot Rubz
• Lacrosse Ball
• Shoulder Pain Protocol
• Standing Desk Video 1
• Standing Desk Video 2
• Standing Desk Video 3

@fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

Consulting for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)

kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Many of the links are affiliate links. They help suppor the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Donn talks with DevOps expert, Will Button about everything DevOps-related. If you're ever wondered how and what DevOps is, then listen in.

Will walks you through the definition of DevOps and how it's used in a company. You'll learn the 20% of DevOps you should know that will get you 80% of the benefit. You'll also learn about a bunch of automation technology that will help you and your team level up your environments so that you can become super efficient in your day-to-day engineering activities.
 
In this episode, Donn talks about the best way to learn a new technology from the ground up. Want to learn something new?  This episode is for you.

You'll learn Donn's proven 5-step methodology for learning new technology. This is the same method Donn has used for over 2 decades of learning new technology. We hope it helps you.  

• DevOps for Developers
• Will's Twitter
• DevOps for Developers Website  

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• Consulting for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

In this episode, Donn talks about the best way to learn a new technology from the ground up. Want to learn something new?  This episode is for you.

You'll learn Donn's proven 5-step methodology for learning new technology. This is the same method Donn has used for over 2 decades of learning new technology. We hope it helps you.

The 5 Steps:

1. Choose a Simple Problem Domain (Note Taking app or Calorie/Protein Tracker)
2. Do not worry about best practices
3. Start Small, then go smaller: Super tiny nibbles of work
4. Build Something Ugly and just "Get it working"
5. Don't Conflate Technologies if you don't have to. Keep it simple.

Watch the entire course here, for free

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• Consulting for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

In this episode, Donn returns for a solo episode to talk about his thoughts on Quality over Quantity and why it's important to software development and productivity in general. 

• What is being "in Flow"? - Learn more

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram) 
• Consulting for Mobile Developers (Donn's YouTube)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

In this episode, we talk to acclaimed Android developer Joaquim Verges. He recently embarked on a journey of making is laptop not burn like a furnace when using Android Studio. He landed up on this unknown effort by Jetbrains called Projector and seems to have found programmer Nirvana.

Listen to his adventures.

• How to Run Android Studio on ANY Device With JetBrains Projector
• Mirakle Gradle plugin
• Jetbrains M1 Macbook updates:
  • Jetbrains JBR-2526
  • IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3.1 Is out with Apple Silicon Support

• Projector-Server: Github
• Projector Documentation
• Swing UI
• Joaquim's Projector Instructions

• @joenrv
• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

Anvil is a Kotlin compiler plugin that makes your life a tad bit easier when using Dagger 2. In this episode we talk to Ralf Wondratschek from Square who created the library and open sourced it for all of us.

After touching on some of the basics, Ralf dives into the thinking behind Anvil and how it evolved into the tool it is today. It's filled with nuggets of wisdom especially if your app uses Dagger for Dependency Injection.

Enjoy!

• Anvil for Dagger
• Ralf's talk at Droidcon: Android at Scale @Square
• Slides for above talk

• @vRallev
• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

In episode 1 of Fragmented we talked about Testing. 200 episodes in, we decided it's a good time to do a state of the union for mobile testing. We talk with Valera Zakharov who's a Staff Engineer at Slack and considered one of the experts in the field of mobile testing. Hope you enjoy this one!

• Espresso Testing with Android
• Android Test Orchestrator
• Flank : Fragemented Episode
• Bluepill : LinkedIn's iOS Testing Framework
• Valera's Droidcon Talk - E2E2U: Slack's Journey to Developer-driven End-to-end Testing
• Valera's blog post on Slack - Android UI Automation: Part 1, Building Trust
• Jake Wharton's Testing Robots

• @valera_zakharov
• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

In our 200th episode, we talk about Serverless Programming.

What is it? What's an example of a service I could build with Serverless Programming? What are the advantages or disadvantages? We talk about it all in this episode.

Also, 🙏 for being listeners. We've stuck together for 200 of these. Kaushik & Donn are incredibly grateful to have you folks as listeners.

• Heroku
• Platform as a Service
• Donn's gif service gifstagram.com
• Flippa : Buy and Sell services online
• Founder's Chats: Ep 41
• Options for different services:
  • AWS Lambda Function
  • Azure Functions
• Postman : The Collaboration Platform for API Development
• Vercel

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

A tweet from a famous tech journalist about Android vs iOS spurs a storm. In this episode, Donn and Kaushik given their honest thoughts on iOS vs Android; and being developers for the platform.

• KG's post - iPhones, Pixels and lazy Android developers
• Ben Thompson's tweet
• Donn's post - The Three Buckets (The Rule of Thirds)
• Garage Band - Apple iPhone app
• Reeder 4 - iOS RSS Reader app
• CultureCode's Things - iOS Todo app

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal

We're back and Fragmented is going Indie again. A quick episode on the future of Fragmented.

• New Artwork! Story on how Swapnil helped with our new artwork

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal