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Dear Developers, What's Your Work/Home Setup Like?

Hey everyone, I want this to be a very casual conversation. I'm looking to set up my personal workspace this month and will love to see pictures of your workspaces for inspiration.

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Adam Gaskins

I have a nice home office with multiple displays, ergo chair, etc... but I usually just end up on my laptop. Using i3 window manager, I don't really miss the extra physical displays so much and this way. I'd probably be more productive in my office on a productivity per hour basis, but I think I get more done per day just because I always have my laptop hear me. This is a bit like seasons, though, as I do go through phases where I prefer sitting in the office to work. But I'd say I usually prefer the flexibility of the laptop.

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Andreas Börjesson • Edited

Home setup

Home setup in my kitchen (small apartment). One screen with 5120x1440 (32:9 format).

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Emeka Michael

Very sweet, I like your table top. Is this IKEA?

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rezmed

A clean one !

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Karlapar

Beautiful office

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Gift Egwuenu

Love it!

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks to everyone that shared with me what their space looks like. I finally completed mine and here's the final look.



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Pedro Cruz • Edited

Well want to share mine and want some improvements, but don’t know where, maybe put some acoustic foam? I appreciate some feedback :D

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tiff

My desk setup:

I also have a dedicated hardware tinkering space in my hybrid living room/office

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Daniel Ramos

Love the first picture very photogenic.

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Kai Cataldo

Whoa, are you writing code on an iPad in the first picture?

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tiff

Kinda. I am using Working Copy to push simple code that I've modified in Textastic to Git/GitHub.

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Gift Egwuenu

Your setup looks nice. Is that a Sony Alpha A5100?

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Miguel Ben

Trying your img MalhadiJr-Setup

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Gift Egwuenu

Have you tried adding it in markdown format

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Nabeel Molham

Mine is simpler actually, just my laptop + Ultra-wide 34" Dell monitor + External Keyboard and Mouse

my setup

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Gift Egwuenu

Nice! Love the 34” monitor

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Stephen Sauceda • Edited


Desk: Ikea Linnmon
Chair: Some cheap thing from Staples I'm looking to replace
PC: Custom
Monitor: LG 34UC98-W
Keyboard: Ducky One 2 Skyline
Mouse: Logitech MX Master 2
Speakers: Logitech MX
Microphone: Rode Podcaster
Webcam: Logitech c930e
Fake plant and LED strip for color

I’ve been working from home for almost five years now and the key is definitely to set your space up in whatever way makes you feel comfortable. My space has gone through a lot of iterations but I’m finally happy with this. I do want to replace the chair and get a sit/stand desk frame though.

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Daniel Ramos

I have desk like that. An Ikea Linnmon.

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Gift Egwuenu

Cool! Love this setup ❤️ The plant and led strip added more vibe to it.

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Miguel Ben

That KB and monitor <3

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Daniel Albuschat

My home dev workplace is my Razer Blade 15, i7,16G RAM, 2TB NVMe, RTX 2080 MAX-Q, which is usually operated on the couch 😁

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vladimir.dev

My home one is not really a "setup" per se, it's just an IKEA desk with addons...
I'm thinking of making some improvements if possible... so consider it a work in progress... :)

This is my home:


And this is work:
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Gift Egwuenu

Nice I like both setups and that chair too 😍

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fischgeek • Edited

I share an office with my wife. I work from home, and she doesn't (can you tell?). I tried to take a panoramic of the whole office. Hope you like it!

office-image

Breakdown:

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Gift Egwuenu

I just have one word for this setup it's sick!! Love it :) I was able to view the image on different window though.

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fischgeek

Thanks! We like it.

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Sarah Williams

I work from home and recently moved my office from the box room to the extension for more space and natural light (it has a glass roof). I decided to do an IKEA hack to build a desk big enough for 2 people so my wife could use the space too.

Here’s my half. I have a 28” 4K screen and a 24” HD screen on monitor arms and my laptop (13”) on a stand to bring the height up:
my half

And from another angle where you can see the full desk. My wife uses a 28” 4K screen and her laptop (13”):
full width.

I built it using 3 x Alex drawers from IKEA and attached a kitchen worktop to it. I love working from here now.

better light

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Miguel Ben

I really like this setup + those sweet keys!

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Cheston • Edited

I have to ask...
What kind of switches you got in those bad boys?
Also, those accent keys are dope!

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Sarah Williams

Mine is Cherry MX Brown and my wife’s is Cherry MX Blue. Mine is pretty new and I’m totally in love it. It’s definitely my favourite one I’ve used so far.

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Charles Crete

Ah same for us. Both keyboards are mime but she gets mad when I type late at night with the Blues, so we switched!

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Gift Egwuenu

Wow looks nice. ❤️
Been trying to get these Alex drawers over but I can't get IKEA over here might make a custom made one.

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Guillaume • Edited

This is my work setup:

Dual 27" Dell Ultrasharp monitors in portrait and one Dell 24" in landscape.

And this is my home setup:

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beylmk

Where did you get the shelving unit under your monitors?

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Guillaume

Ikea Alex 202.607.18. And the desk is a Ikea Malm 602.141.59.

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Tayyib Cankat

So clean and tidy. And I loved the arrangement of the screens in both pictures

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Emerson Jose

This is awesome 🔥

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Guillaume

Thanks!

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vladimir.dev

Nice!

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Gift Egwuenu

Nice 🔥They both look awesome.