Episode 70 – How to Spend $2,500 on Developer Gear

We’re back with another installment as we challenge ourselves to compare how we’d each spend $2,500 on developer gear as Allen waxes on about the loudest quiet keyboard, Joe teaches us how cheese is made, and Michael puts some neon on his computer.

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Survey Says …

This episode we ask: Do you trust your family to buy the tech you want?

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Shop ’til you Drop

The rules are simple. We each get to spend a theoretical $2,500 on developer gear. Apparently, we’re not supposed to spend it on things like bicycles and guitars, but we’ll see how long that lasts. Now on with the shopping sprees!

Michael’s Blinged-Out Shopping List

For the build …

Description	Price
Corsair Lighting Node Pro (Amazon)	$49.99
Corsair HD Series, HD 120 RGB LED 120mm fans (Amazon)	$79.99
Corsair H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Amazon)	$59.99
Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR4 Memory (Amazon)	$449.99
Samsung 960 Series 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD (Amazon)	$289.99

For the love of the game …

	Description	Price
	Xbox One X (Amazon)	$499.00
	Astro Gaming A40 TR Headset + MixAmp Pro TR for Xbox One (Amazon)	$249.99
	Astro Gaming A40 TR Mod Kit (Amazon)	$60.00
	DX Racer Formula Series Gaming Chair (Amazon)	$289.00
	Samsung T5 Portable SSD – 1TB – USB 3.1 External SSD (Amazon)	$377.99

For the bookworms …

Description	Price
Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (Amazon)	$52.90
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler (Amazon)	$49.26

Tip of the Week

• Try Haskell today!
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