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Desk Setups Through the Years

Where the work actually happens. Newest first; this page grows backwards in time.

Now

The office battlestation

Dual external monitors above a MacBook, with an Argo octopus plush and a large tumbler on the desk

Two externals for dashboards and terminals, the MacBook down low for Slack triage, and the Argo octopus supervising deployments. The tumbler is load-bearing: infrastructure runs on hydration.

Home, after dark

The acoustic-panel battlestation

A home desk with three monitors, two laptops, an acoustic foam panel, a boom microphone, headphones on a stand, and Nerf blasters and a ukulele on the wall

The home rig fully grown: three screens, two laptops, and an acoustic panel that actually earns its keep on calls. Also visible, the essential engineering instruments: a ukulele, two Nerf blasters for settling code review disputes, and a Rubik's cube for long compiles.

Earlier

The three-screen starter

A bright home desk with three monitors, a MacBook Air, a boom microphone, an ergonomic keyboard, and two mugs

The first serious home setup. Same bones, brighter room: three displays, the Blue Snowball on its boom, an ergonomic keyboard, and a two-mug caffeine pipeline with a backup Mountain Dew.

The CloudCover years

The matching twins

Two matching LG monitors on one mount showing CloudCover wallpapers, with a Blue Snowball microphone and an ergonomic keyboard

Angled view of the dual-monitor CloudCover setup with a gaming chair and a copy of Pride and Prejudice on the desk

Work-from-home during the CloudCover years: two matching LGs on a single mount, the Snowball on its boom, and company wallpapers on every screen.

Same desk, below

The part nobody photographs

Under-desk view of a standing desk with all cabling strapped into a tray, annotated to show only two cables reaching the floor: internet and power

Cable management as a load-bearing hobby. Everything lives strapped in the under-desk tray, and exactly two cables are allowed to touch the floor: one internet, one power. The standing desk goes up and down and nothing snags.

Where it started

One screen and a sidecar

An earlier setup with one main monitor, a vertical side monitor on an arm, and a MacBook Air, with anime playing on screen

The first iteration: one main screen, a vertical sidecar for logs, and the MacBook Air doing the heavy lifting. Anime after hours, terminals during them.