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That’s my office setup. Not because that’s where I do most of my work, but because it’s more clean. You will see some horror soon.
As you see, I have a notebook. It’s a Lenovo Yoga 510, with an 500 GB hard drive (not SSD), 8 GB of memory, and an Intel Core i5 processor.
I use a Logitech Marble as a mouse, but I’m very good with the touchpad, too. For the minimal graphical job I do, I also own a Wacom Bamboo, too, but I barely use it as a pointing device.
I’m pretty good at typing on the notebook’s keyboard, but I’m best on my external keyboard, a Rapoo E9080. It has its own touchpad, which can be turned into a numeric keypad.
For listening to music, I use my Rapoo S100 headset. It is paired both with my phone and my computer. It has pretty good voice, is very light, doesn’t grip my ears, so in general it’s a very good headset.
The most important device on my desktop is the rubber duck. It helps me a lot with debugging.
Now let’s go home. On the way, I take a train, so I can continue work if deadlines are hard on me. That’s the reason I own such a notebook: I can work on it even if I have to hang from a rooftop. My mobile has a decent network plan, so I can upload my work to our servers whenever I see fit.
Should my notebook’s battery run dry, I have a Xiaomi Mi 4 phone. With Termux installed, I can do most of my coding job from that in an emergency. Everything but Docker runs on it fine.
Now we have arrived home. I have a 3 year old daughter, so working from home can be a nightmare sometimes.
On the left you can see my daughter doing her own job on her Tinkerbell Notebook (I wonder where her really cute glasses were at the time). She’s very helpful with it. She also owns a fidget spinner (I actually hate it, but she’s young, she has plenty of time realising it’s useless). There are various objects cluttering this table, all put there by my daughter. Even the coffee mug. She loves coffee mugs. I don’t even drink coffee.
As you can see, everything is the same as in the office; the only exception is the headset which I don’t use at home for obvious reasons. That was my ultimate goal: to become a true road warrior, so I can work on the same apparatus anywhere in the world.