The Laptop Sticker Question
Two laptops, two philosophies. The work machine is a running archive of every conference and project; the travel Mac shows restraint. Settle the argument.
Every conference, every booth, every project. The laptop is the résumé.
A handful of travel stickers with room to breathe. Restraint as a lifestyle.
The results reveal themselves once you commit.
How it got here
The sticker philosophy was not always maximalist. Rewinding the tape, one laptop at a time:
The statement robot
One sticker, but loud. A friendly robot with an unprintable pattern, zoom at your own risk.
The purge
The pandemic minimalism phase. One skull. It said everything about that year.
The hexagon wall
First job, first conferences. DevConf, CentOS, Red Hat, and a full row of CloudCover mascots. Every event sticker went straight on, no questions asked.
And then the pendulum swung both ways at once: the two laptops at the top are where it landed.