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Welcome to Syntax. Happy Holidays. Today we

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have a Sick Pick episode. This is

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an episode we actually haven't done for

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a couple years. I think 2020

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was the last year that we did it. And

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the people have spoken. They want it back.

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So here we are. This is the Syntax

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Holiday Gift Guide. And if

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you like the Sick Picks of things

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that we pick every Wednesday, you're going

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to love this episode because it's an

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entire episode of us talking

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about more Sick Picks

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and basically just like things that

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would make a good gift for

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developers, things that would make good gifts

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for people in your life, who

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like nice things. I like nice

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things. I like good things. And

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I love talking about this stuff, quite

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honestly. So I'm glad it's back. Do

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you also like open source software, Wes?

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I love open source software. Tell

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me about it. Do you like to support

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open source software?

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I absolutely like to support open source

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software. How could a company do that,

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Scott? Well, they should

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check out opensourcepledge.com. It's

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a way that you can pledge to

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support the software that you're

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using. When we joined Sentry,

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one of the first things they did is

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they hooked it up so that we were

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going to be donating to all the projects

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that we had inside of our package.json. And

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to me, that was one of the coolest

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things in the world. And

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so I love that the

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open source pledge is here.

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And if you go to

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opensourcepledge.com/members, you can see the

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teams based on how many

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people work there. So how much dollar per

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dev they're giving to open source. And honestly,

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these are the companies that I want to

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support because they're supporting the projects that

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we all rely on. So

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if you want to check out and join the

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open source pledge, head on to opensourcepledge.com and give

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this thing a read. And if your

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company qualifies, join the pledge. pocket.

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And I never thought that I

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would like it because it's, it's,

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it's relatively big, but I, it's

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one of those things where I tap my pockets and

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I go, Oh, if it's not on me, I, I

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kind of kind of panic. So get

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somebody a multi tool. This one's called the Leatherman

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arc. It's probably the best one

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you can buy. And it's one of those things.

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You get your name engraved on it because if

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you lose it, you will cry. But it's

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one of these things that you'll probably have

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forever. And you can, you can endlessly, Leatherman

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is a really cool company. It's made in

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the USA. All of the parts on it

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are replaceable. They have a really good warranty.

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So just one of those forever items. Yeah.

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I'm going to sick pick. I guess we

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don't have to say that before every single

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one. Uh, one

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of my favorite things on my desk is

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the Anker cube. I have

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this, the Anker cube is a

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three and one Anker charger, and

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it's built like a brick. I could,

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I could throw this thing through a

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window. So it's very solid. It'll charge

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your eye devices all at once because

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to me, I, you know,

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I have all these devices. I have

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all the Apple devices, but you know, it's like, I'm

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on the road sometimes in this thing. You

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just chuck it in your bag, but I really

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just keep mine on my desk all the time

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anyways. And it's my like main charger or whatever.

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It sits my phone up nicely while I'm working.

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It is a little bit expensive, but all of

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the kind of three and one chargers are. So

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if you're hucking out the cash for one of

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these three and one chargers, anyways, this one I

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really, really like, and I kind of get it

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as a gift for everybody that I know has

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an iPhone and like these kinds of things. Yeah.

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The thing about these chargers is that if you

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do cheap out on them, you're

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either giving up like

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charge speed or like

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safety. Um, because

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like some of them are, are, are kind of

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sketchy, right? Like Anker is a really good company

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and I trust their stuff. And

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if someone were to come out with one that was like $29, I

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would kind of be a little bit suspicious. of

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it because it's

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doing quite a bit that I didn't

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realize that it's such a good idea to put your

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phone on it while you're at your desk because then

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you can glance at your phone without having to pick

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it up. Yeah, I like

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that. Yeah, just sits here.

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And in that same Onkar realm, I

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also have like the Onkar Maggo where

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we did a little bit of traveling this year.

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I spoke at some conferences and stuff and your

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phone battery dies. I'm always installing the beta software

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on my phone, so my phone dies especially fast.

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But Onkar makes, and I don't have it on my

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desk sadly, but a

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little MagSafe battery pack. That's a good, I

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think it's like 10 milliwatt hours or whatever.

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It's a lot. It's big. And MagSafe's onto

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the back of your iPhone and then you

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have battery charge for the whole day, toss

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it in your bag or whatever. You don't

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have to worry about finding a charger. I've

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also found that to be a nice little

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thing to have around. Yeah, that's

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when I go traveling, I get like

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an e-sim and the battery, when you

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have a second e-sim, the battery just

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drops significantly. And

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I always find myself, like you go out to

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eat when you're traveling and then you plug in

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and I always have this big cable where I'm

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trying to charge as fast as possible, but this

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would be kind of a nice little thing to

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lay your phone on and charge it

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up. I'm not a big MagSafe guy,

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mostly because it gets so

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hot. But we have it in

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our car and I never use it

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because it's slow and hot, but I think a

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proper MagSafe is faster. Is that

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true? I don't know. I don't

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necessarily worry about speed because it's on my desk, right?

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So it's just kind of charging it all day if

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I need it to. So the speed thing

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isn't a super big concern because I've never like, I got

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to get this thing charged up real quick before I go.

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But the MagSafe thing, I guess the

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battery, again, you just kind of leave it attached

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for a little bit and you're good to go.

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I pretty much exclusively charge via MagSafe these days.

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Wow. My next one is

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something that if you need to get a

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bunch of people, the same gift, I'm going

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to tell you get a

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bucket of.