How does your desk look as a programmer?

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Unlike many other programmers I opted-out of using multiple large monitors and decided to go with just my built-in laptop screen and an iPad Mini as a second screen connected via Duet Display and sticked to my laptop screen using a very handy Mountie Clip. I’m using a wireless headset and a wireless mouse because cables suck. I only use a wired keyboard because I haven’t found a decent bluetooth keyboard when I was looking for one.

I’ve been working as a freelance developer for several years now and I change my working environment really often. I work from home, I work from train for several hours at least twice a week and I work from different clients’ offices almost daily. So I sometimes have 2 large monitors available for use, sometimes I have only 1 and sometimes the only display I have available is my laptop itself.

These often changing environments stressed me so much that one day I decided to bring some consistency to my everyday life as programmer.

After a few days of unfamiliarity I really fell in love with my setup because it’s completely portable, it even works in a train (except from the laptop stand and the external keyboard, which is fine for me) and I really perceive it as a huge advantage to not getting distracted from work so easily anymore because I don’t have obtrusively blinking notifications on 3 different screens anymore.

Oh, and I prefer espresso (without sweeteners) over cappuccino, latte or any other coffee so a cup of espresso is usually part of my desk. At least once a day, usually in the morning.