Sometimes it’s good to have one with your code, one with the running program and one with a browser looking stuff up. You can argue one or two more (like database model, expected output, …) but you barely need a whole monitor for each. The photo is just pretentious and comically overdone
one 1080p screen for code with 3-6 pages open simultaneously (approx 80x24 or 90x40 depending on whether the file tree is also open)
one 1080p screen for a terminal with 4-6 terminal sessions displayed (80x24)
one 1080p screen for reference documentation
or more 1080p screens for even more documentation as rabbit holes in documentation can go quite deep
…and that’s before even more screens for monitoring services, CI status, rabbit holes in documentation, etc.
Then there’s video chat. It gets really fun when someone asks “@inetknght, can you share your screen?” during a video call. Then I have to pick which screen gets shared and hope it’s the right one. It would suck if they how many emails I ignore. I currently have 15,070 unarchived emails in my inbox spanning over a decade. I’ll get to cleaning that inbox when the bug reports stop coming.
Plus, I sometimes run VMs fullscreen. It’s best to do that on a dedicated monitor. Especially if there’s multiple VMs running. Otherwise good luck finding the real desktop!
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As a non-programmer - why does programmers need so much screen space?
Sometimes it’s good to have one with your code, one with the running program and one with a browser looking stuff up. You can argue one or two more (like database model, expected output, …) but you barely need a whole monitor for each. The photo is just pretentious and comically overdone
As a programmer:
…and that’s before even more screens for monitoring services, CI status, rabbit holes in documentation, etc.
Then there’s video chat. It gets really fun when someone asks “@inetknght, can you share your screen?” during a video call. Then I have to pick which screen gets shared and hope it’s the right one. It would suck if they how many emails I ignore. I currently have 15,070 unarchived emails in my inbox spanning over a decade. I’ll get to cleaning that inbox when the bug reports stop coming.
Plus, I sometimes run VMs fullscreen. It’s best to do that on a dedicated monitor. Especially if there’s multiple VMs running. Otherwise good luck finding the real desktop!
Wow, what a horrible setup.
bro even got the RGB soundbar ⁉️
Gotta make the machine optimized for over clocking and general “pushed and totally maxxxxx…xxed” processing specs, you need them.
It’s like speed holes for the hood of your car. The the RGB even have a speaker, which just makes them cooler
Hmm I wonder if that Sublime Text is UNREGISTERED…