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Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from

#1

Post by poushkar » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 6:14 PM UTC

I really like the "workspace porn" and been frequenting various blogs and communities with workspace setups. It's inspiring and interesting to see how other people organize their workspaces and achieve focus and comfort. And while it's also interesting to see random setups from people with different backgrounds, I especially like to see setups from developers and tech professionals like myself. That's why I decided to start the blog dedicated solely to such setups. I hope some HN visitors will appreciate it, too.

Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from
hackerstations.com

Re: Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from

#2

Post by klez » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 6:32 PM UTC

Related: the battlestations subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/

And its various spinoffs (look in the sidebar).

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#3

Post by luc_ » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 6:33 PM UTC

Fun, reminds me of https://reddit.com/r/battlestations

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#4

Post by luc_ » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 6:34 PM UTC

klez wrote: post #2

Related: the battlestations subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/ And its various spinoffs (look in the sidebar).

ya beat me :P

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#5

Post by reustle » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 6:41 PM UTC

Here's a twitter account that highlights a lot of similar workstations

https://twitter.com/workspacesxyz

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#6

Post by capableweb » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 6:58 PM UTC

luc_ wrote: post #3

Fun, reminds me of https://reddit.com/r/battlestations

Most of those seem gaming related (judging by the amount of RGB light and non-ergonomic chairs at least), while "Hacker Stations" seems focused on setups for work.

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#7

Post by MDWolinski » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 6:58 PM UTC

I don’t know…someone needs to do Real Tech Workstations of Orange County or something because all of these setups seem very clean and perfect. My desk is a mess which I’ll clean up when I have a moment or something like that.

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#8

Post by sah2ed » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

reustle wrote: post #5

Here's a twitter account that highlights a lot of similar workstations https://twitter.com/workspacesxyz

Yes, and they even had a showing on HN recently [0].

https://www.workspaces.xyz/

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32265223

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#9

Post by yowayb » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 7:06 PM UTC

One of the finest engineers I’ve worked with has macular degeneration. His entire setup was designed to allow him to focus on the same part of his laptop screen (with a very large font), which is basically eye-level screen.

I have only ever used a monitor the first day I got to my desk because it happened to be there.

These setups strike me a bit like AWS/GCP. Just another place for devs to spend money.

And yet another excellent engineer I know uses VIM without syntax highlighting.

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Post by poushkar » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 7:18 PM UTC

yowayb wrote: post #9

One of the finest engineers I’ve worked with has macular degeneration. His entire setup was designed to allow him to focus on the same part of his laptop screen (with a very large font), which is basically eye-level screen. I have only ever used a monitor the first day I got to my desk because it happened to be there. These setups strike me a bit like AWS/GCP. Just another place for devs to spend money. And yet anoth…

Thanks for sharing this! It's been only a few posts so far since I started the blog, but I am actually looking for persons first, and the "coolness" of a setup doesn't really matter to me. In fact, I find a laptop that moves between sofa and a kitchen table as inspiring as some intricate setups. There is something about doing more with less. And I am sure there will be people with such setups featured on the blog, as well.