Ben Halpern

Posted on May 27, 2020

Workspace Wednesday: Show me pics of your at-home setup

#workstations #discuss

It's that time of the week again

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Ben Halpern • May 27 '20

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Ben Halpern • May 27 '20

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Ben Holmes • May 27 '20

✅ Slick LG 4K monitor
✅ Desk + lamp in my parent's house that's way too fancy for me to own
✅ Daily todo journal that I barely follow
✅ The all-important DEV sticker ✨
✅ J City playlist I've been living on for months (which you can find here!)

Ben Halpern • May 27 '20

Epic

jalpesh Vadgama • May 27 '20 • Edited

I have started understanding ergonomics and this is my setup to meet this. I am so much productive after making changes like putting laptop at a specific height and external mouse and keyboard.

Hardware:
Lenovox1 carbon 3rd edition
Logitech mouse and keyboard
JBL headphones with MIC

Software:
Windows 10 Professional
Visual Studio and Visual studio code
SQL Server

Jakob Attkinson • May 27 '20

Few opinions on your setup, if I may:

putting your laptop aside and just using that gorgeous monitor should be much better for productivity (and for mastering alt+tab)
investing in a mechanical keyboard should improve your typing and experience a dozen times
you might need a little more room on the table, for your hands.
the lamp is pretty cool 😍

Ben Holmes • May 27 '20

Some fair points! I personally prefer slotting my laptop below the monitor so I can have a semi-dual monitor setup. Putting it to the side is a possibility... But it might be too out of the way to be useful as a secondary monitor. Happy to experiment tho once I invest in a keyboard and mouse (or magic trackpad)!

JoelBonetR 🥇 • May 31 '20 • Edited

I agree with space for resting the arms, and I think 2 screens better than one always, Ben only need a laptop support and set both screens at the same distance. Then the arms rest space will appear.

I'm not agree with mechanical keyboard, this has nothing to do on typing skills, and you'll cause much more noise without a reason. If you gonna play some FPS it's OK if you are this kind of people that really think you will perceive 4ms less on response time but for work?
Gimme that soft low-profile keys please! You can go for a Logitech G815 or G915 which lets you type faster with a short press per key, it will make you feel less tired after coding for hours.
Some like Macbook or Huawei laptops, which also come with built-in soft low-profile keyboards, but having it on an external keyboard improves the experience by hundred.

Shane McGowan • May 27 '20

I respect the monitor dedicated to Blank Banshee

Ben Holmes • May 27 '20

Ayyyyy someone got the reference! Mega’s my favorite vaporwave album hands down. So much clever sound panning and production 🙏

Shane McGowan • May 27 '20

Insert some joke about "My Machine" here 😘

Beeblebrox • May 31 '20

how big is monitor? 23-24" or 27-28"? Do you find icon, menus, etc.. too small because of 4k? Do you know what panels your monitor has TN or IPS? How satisfied are you with colors?

Ben Holmes • May 31 '20 • Edited

Oh yeah, forgot to give the size! It's a 27" IPS panel (matte finish) with USB-C support. The brightness and colors are amazing in my opinion, but I've seen a couple complaints that it differs from a MacBook's glossy display. I'll definitely take no glare over a little inconsistency though.

Here's the amazon listing: amazon.com/LG-27UD88-W-LED-Lit-Mon...

Bought this a couple years ago though, and it looks like they came out with a newer, cheaper model: amazon.com/LG-27UK850-W-Monitor-Co...

Gajender Tyagi • May 27 '20 • Edited

Mess!!!

Dmitry Maksyoma • May 27 '20 • Edited

I don't have anything I don't need here.

Luke Harris • May 27 '20

Love the Little Dot Mk3! Have you swapped the tubes yet?

Dmitry Maksyoma • May 27 '20

Thanks! No, those are stock tubes.

I aspire to buy WA7 Fireflies and sell the LittleDot. I listened to WA7 with Audeze LCD-3 and MX-4 and was blown away.

Luke Harris • May 27 '20

Yeah, the WA7 is nice! I run Fostex TH-00X Purplehearts on Mullard tubes and I really enjoy my setup, although one of my tubes has developed some interference.

NLye • May 27 '20

It's a mixed setup of home and office hardware atm, thats why there is the cable mess, but I'm still happy with that :)

3 EIZO monitors
Small 'Cooler Master' keyboard
Dell mouse
RØDE mic
Software: VS Code + Teamspeak to speak with my colleagues and Web Radio for cool music
The most important thing: COFFEE :D

Jakob Attkinson • May 27 '20

The monitors are amazing. I imagine you work a lot with design and colors?

NLye • May 27 '20

I wish I could say yes, but actually I just like to have a lot of space and not always have to change the foreground program. ;D

Beeblebrox • May 31 '20

What is your choice/opinion about following:

size 23-24" vs 27-28" for programming?
4k vs HD?
TN vs IPS panels?

Abderrahmane Mustapha • May 27 '20

working from bed here, an hp ProBook , an intel i3 6th, and 8 gb ram :(

Abhinav Kumar • May 27 '20 • Edited

BenQ 27" QHD monitor
Lenovo Y50-70 (HDD swapped with SSD and 16GB RAM added) docked below the desk
Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard + Logitech M331 silent mouse
Apple iPad Pro 10.5-inch for notes and mockups
Creative 2.1 speakers + Apple Earpods hidden below the keyboard. (I don't like headphones so I take calls using speakers and Earpods' mic)
LG 50" TV for projecting
Nebula and Deadpool

Beeblebrox • May 31 '20

why QHD? is 4k too much? I mean too small icons, text, etc?

Simme • May 27 '20 • Edited

Macbook Pro 2019
Twelve South BookArc
Anne Pro 2 keyboard with chocolate keycaps and custom wooden shell.
Logitech G900
LG 34" 5k monitor (34wk95u)
Blue Yeti Microphone, Compass arm, Radius shock mount, and a no-brand pop filter.
Random ceramic coffee mug
VaultBoy wobble head
Divoom Timebox Evo
SteelSeries XXL Mousepad

and last, but not least, a box of Swedish snus! 💪🏼