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Moved my home office a few months ago to a slightly larger room in a 100+ year old house. Painful process after 20 years accumulation of stuff™.
Furniture and layout largely the same, traded some bookshelves for cupboards.
Main work space is a 180x80cm desk, with a 22cm shelf across the back, 25cm up.
The one big change I made was power distribution. I (and probably most of us) have lots of things that don't draw much, but still require an outlet.
One "master" distribution board ("tradie" type) running 2 x 4 outlet and 2 x 6 outlet boards. Surge suppressors all over, a couple of kJ rated capacity.
No extra extension leads.
So, off one 240V 10A wall outlet, I have a total of 20 downstream outlets, more than half of them committed:
Server
Monitor for server
2 printers (inkjet, laser)
Weather station
Cordless phone
Internet/phone modem-router
Laptop
External monitor for laptop
Speakers
Desk lamp
4 assorted chargers (in switched outlets)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yeah, like mine used to be, until the cooling bill became to expensive. 
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How do you change the date?
Gus Gustafson
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Quote: Did I miss anything?
I have same space. I will send you:
30 year old cheap computer hutch.
3 bookcases
2 file cabinets
printer stand with B&W laser printer
plastic drawer stand with scanner
Old, small library table with assorted junk and large monitor for Pi
3 Workstation computers with an expensive ergo keyboard and 34" monitor.
2 very old laptops, one W8.1 and one 9 yo MacBook
2 drawers CD/DVD
drawer of diskettes
4 drawers full of IoT stuff, including Pi's, Arduinos, Photon2 and Beaglebone.
Beer making stuff, including my last batch bottled a week ago.
(enough so far? I have more)
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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For me the most important piece of equipment is a really good office chair. Don't skimp on that. Beyond that I'm minimalist. No printer - why would I want to print stuff, when I can see it on my monitor. No fancy power stuff - just a 6-way extension lead. And my desk is 24" x 48".
That minimalist approach, means I can easily move between my summer and winter offices. In the summer, I use a large, west-facing, unused dining room, which overlooks my back garden. The concrete floor means that it is always cool - even on the hottest of summer days. In the winter I move up to a tiny bedroom - which means I can keep warm without breaking the bank.
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We took our home office space and put in a built-in desk wall to wall on one side (14 feet long). Printer at one end, network stuff at the other.
I have three monitors, work laptop, and a small stack of instruments on the desk.
I am so happy to not be in the office (I got remote status and moved away). The new office cubicles (company got a new building) are only wide enough for two monitors with walls only to the top of the monitors and the cube depth is enough for the monitors and a keyboard. Still that's better than the original plan of long tables with monitors and no walls.
Anyway, being in the office would not change how I work. My coworkers are in Malaysia and Poland. Project manager is in Austria. Product manager is in Brazil. I am not collaborating with local workers, anyway. I am much more productive at home.
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Greetings!
I have a laptop with an Amazon Basic Docking station running 2 27" monitors. also have a wireless keyboard (Logitech K350), wireless mouse, multi-function printer /scanner/fax/copier, a couple of moveable shelves, a stand that the keyboard slides under that supports the two monitors and the docking station. An amazon echo for background music, 2 power bars plugged into an APS unit (650 watt) plus a PC-100A multi-switch to control the flow of power from the APS to the rest of the equipment. Also have a Linux (Mint 21.1) box as a backup for all the stuff (3 PC's) with 8TB of storage and 16GB Ram.
All in/on a built-in desk that is 8 feet long (2.8. meters) with drawers and storage space.
Pretty? Not Really
Functional? Yes
Cegarman
document code? If it's not intuitive, you're in the wrong field 
Welcome to my Chaos and Confusion!
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concur on the chair. 10+ years ago I got tired of the crap the customer was supplying and bought a posturpedic for that office. I have a high end gaming chair for the home office.
The other thing about workspace is high quality displays.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Now that is a distributed team. Where are you located? And what type of software do you develop?
Just curious.
I have one 12 foot wall that is begging for a floating desk. Power is on this wall and next to it, so I can easily wire everything I need. The wall to the left has two 6 foot windows in it, so a bit of a design challenge there.
I went in to the "office" - customer space where I have worked for the last 20 years, and the conditions are sad. Very skilled people working in a junky space. At least there are cubicle walls, but there is no daylight, the lighting is overhead fluorescent (yuck), no fresh air, etc. I know I'm whining, but I am excited about re-doing my home office.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Hi Charlie,
I am on the east coast of Florida. The company's head office is a 4 hour drive away. I haven't made that trip since I moved here (very happy to be where we are now - great community).
I develop and maintain our test software (hardware testing - thus the stack of instruments).
Power is good on my new desk. Under the desk (screwed to the side wall of my sitting location) are 2 surge protector/power strips. One for items that are always on (the aforementioned network gear) and one with the switch near the front so I can easily turn the monitors/laptop power/etc. on and off. There is another surge protector on an other circuit for the printer and instruments.
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Rob Cole
Programming long enough to have built processor boards with wire-wrap.
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Is not that amazing? I've been supporting a customer in Mexico, their server is in the NE USA, and I have a meeting with people from Connecticut, Iowa and sometimes India weekly. It almost becomes surreal at times.
A very long time ago, I really, REALLY wanted to move to Melbourne, FL (I like to sail). I spent a week in Coco Beach at a training class and fell in love with that place - I love the old times kind of homes. I don't need or do fancy.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I have 32KB of flash, and 2.5KB of RAM. I have one 128x32 monochrome screen.
Over half that flash, and I don't know how much RAM is taken up by keyboard firmware.
In what's left over some friends and I are making a Tamagotchi game.
Talk about tricky.
Now normally, to dynamically draw to a monochrome screen without readback capability, you have to hold a framebuffer, which takes 512 bytes in this case. We didn't want to use that RAM.
The method we're using is to embed RLE compressed entire screens in the screen's native framebuffer format. That way we don't need any RAM at all to display a screen as it just spits the entire screen from flash. The RLE compression in my tests shrinks the final image size to about 1/3 of the size. Each screen, uncompressed is again, .5KB.
Not sure if we'll be able to do it still, but it's fun.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Did you abandon the monster CPU?
Indeed it looks fun. 
Enjoy!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Nah, this is just a separate thing.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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If you are fascinated by small code in general, take a look at the videos at https://www.pouet.net/[^]. One extreme example: Oscar's Chair[^], an executable of 4092 bytes, encoding a video/sound of about two minutes.
Certainly, this code doesn't run on bare iron, but relies on Windows drawing and sound primitives. At runtime, it unpacks to a lot more than 4K of RAM - but the unpacking code fits in those 4092 bytes, along with everything that is specific to this movie of graphics and sound. It is really an impressing piece of work!
You can find several other 4K videos (executable size, not line resolution!) at www.pouet.net. I also like Skyline[^]. Clicking at "4k" near the top right on the pouët page takes you to a long list, where you also can select other sizes, platforms and categories. They are not all for Windows.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Wow, you managed to outclass me, I have 128kB of flash and 6 kB of RAM!
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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How luxurious!
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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32/4. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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My familiar just whispered:
Quote: Codewitch will replace the keyboard driver with a 4k version.
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