What’s on your desk, Dominik Preston?

Not all EdgeStaff lives in the US. For example, Editor News Dominik Preston is in London and is, as he says, “responsible for keeping our news related to the morning in the morning before the American team comes online.” It also purchases our new Edge a day Bulletin and covers Android phones, especially all models that are not launched in the United States.

And out of work? “I’m a little obsessive food,” he says, “and runs The newsletter called Slide If I examine London’s restaurants and cookbooks, and I occasionally try my hand on the prescription writing. This means that most of my free time I spend cooking, eating or thinking about food and so decent time at the gym trying to make up. ”

Where is your workspace located?

This is the office I share with my partner in our apartment in London. It used to be the second bedroom, but now we abolished him with two desks and sofa beds of occasional times that we actually have guests to stay. My partner is a doctor student, so her working hours are slightly unpredictable and separated between here and school – which means that 90 percent of the time got the office to himself.

Can you tell us about your desk?

We both have standing tables. It’s mine Autonomous SmartDesk 2 It is an electronic and automatic, old pneumatic model Bakker Elkhuizen, not earn more, annoying, because it takes a little effort to move up and down. Both are decorated with self-indigested mats that still occasionally used for art and craft (or as a background for my product Photos) But mostly twice as a giant mouse masculine.

You also have a chair and walking station. What are they and how well they work for you?

The chair is Herman Miller Runner. In fact, it used to be my partner, while I was sitting in a big chair for Black Pu toy Duelhawk (also no longer available), until we realize we preferred another place and replaced. I’m enough old, and I’m pain enough, to be willing to invest in a chair, I use every day anyway.

Walking the fall is a Pretty cheap one of Mobvoy. I actually bought it right after reading Piece of my colleague Victoria Song on another Mobvoy ModelAnd following her advice I did not try to touch his smart functions or follow my workouts; So far, I have served me well. I only use it as slow as it goes and try to spend as many mornings I walk as soon as possible – on a good day I will stop two or three hours of constant walk; Just a day, I keep putting him down to the coffee and never go. Either way, I let him sit in the afternoon, which is more likely to be a concentrated writing time – I hardly do anything too creative or complicated while walking too much.

(I know, I know, my cable control is not great. I’m very neat, but cables are one of the few things that I’m absolutely, the table really became naked, so I could make myself get better.)

Here’s a long time: Tell us about various technological devices you use.

My current setting is slightly awkwardly trapped between my work and personal computers, though I have some plans in the works to improve it.

My work machine is M2 MacBook Air, which lives on a Ugreen Laptop Stand. It is connected to the monitor on the right, cheap 24-inch KHD Philips Model If I had bought 2020. years.

The confusion of my setting is that other monitor, embarrassing old Acer. This is because I have both work surfaces I use outside of work and that It connects to both monitors. At the end of the working day I can switch MacBoble Cun, and my personal setup is good to go. However, everything is unnecessarily caught, especially because the MacBook cannot support external monitors at once, so this year’s large upgrade is likely to be a 32-inch 4k monitor for money replacement. I will happily take any recommendations for comments!

My keyboard is Logitech MX Keys SI love. I’m very sucking for a good mechanical plate like the next guy, but I like Low Profile, full keyboard and good mechanical options in that space are small and far between. I used Venture Hexgears, but in the end I ran into the ground, and that has been good for me since.

The mouse is also logitech, although it is not my usual. I picked up this Mk anywhere 3s Some time back when I travel to fairs and launch products and usually have a bigger MX Master 3s On my desk. Unfortunately, the left button on that dropped out of the Spirit, and I hold it for replacement on hopes that the long-term MKS Master 4 run.

Continuation of LOGITECH theme (I realize how much I have built my table setting) I have old Z337 2.1 Speaker system It just can’t fit on a table (another reason I have to go to one monitor) and a Brio 500 Webcam To mainly love how easy it is to cross the built-in privacy shutter.

Everything is associated through an Anchor Prime USB hub It’s almost certainly more powerful than I need, but there’s a lot of front USB ports to fill my number of phone, helped XiaoMi 50V Wireless Filling boothWhat had more sense when I used Xiaomi 14 ultra like my main phone, but now is slightly lost – other phones do not affect this maximum filling speed.

It is inclined to have a rotating role of phone floating around my desk, although it is relatively tidy for me – in messy days I can have up to five or six headphones that take up space. Behind the Ultra Live K200 I took these photos, you can see Fairphone 6 and Huawei Temple X.Two phones I recently tested for reviews.

Tell us about collecting your camera.

I decided I wanted to try a movie photo in 2019. years, because I spent much more to write about cameras as part of my phone and I use cameras as part of my job. I thought the film would be a good way to learn more about basic principles.

I picked up this Canon EF on eBay. It’s the 70’s SLR with a metal body, which means it’s hard, but it’s built like a tank – I doubt me will outlast me. It came with Canon 50mm lens, and I gradually picked up some cheap options to go with it: wide angle 28 mm, 35-70 mm when I want flexibility and 70-210 mm, he was buying safari in Kenya for several years. I always tell myself that I will buy better quality lenses when I have a good enough photographer to make the most of them, but I will probably have to bite the bullet in the end.

Microphone living next to them is all Rode NT-USBI use for podcasts and videos, although I would like to get a hole to blossom, so I can store it around the table.

You have a lot of toys and games on these shelves! How long have you been collecting them?

This is really a motile range of things I collected during the years – some purchased, some gifted, some gained from old office growth. Around the rest of my apartment there is more temporary, although my girlfriend is on the (intelligible) mission to concentrate everything in the office.

Do you have favorites?

I am an absolute Extraterrestrial Obsessive, and I actually have two full surfaces, one plishie and one vinyl, which I adore. There is also (unfortunately not full) loader from StrangersWhich I can’t get enough. Elsewhere in the apartment, I have several original 90s Street sharks and Little soldiers Action digits, which are still waiting to deliver them to the rights of the shelf.

The game collection on the board is small, but it is constantly growing. I played a lot Match During the past year or something Betrayed in the house on the hill Probably a game that is most often erupted. I also have a healthy collection D & D 5e and Alien RPG Source books – I can recommend last, and it’s not just fanboy in me!

Okay, tell us about that beautiful cat.

It’s noodle, one of our two cats (the second is bread and yes, Of course they have an Instagram account).

It’s actually a recent addition of my desk. We had cats for several years but in the last few months noodles decided she was indeed He wants to hang out with me while working, and happily will lie on my keyboard to do it. Instead, we set it up with a little cover that now sleeps in about half a day, although it’s still not above sleeping on the keyboard when the mood is attacking. The biggest surprise is that it doesn’t seem to mind standing the table goes up or down while it is on it, which I expected to cause little panic.

Photos of Dominica Preston / The Verge