The battle station, in all its glory.

My Complete Desk Setup as a Learning Programmer

This is the hardware I use while going fully immersive into full stack JavaScript and other programming languages.

Step one of my software engineering bootcamp starts today with pre-course training and I spent the last couple weeks perfecting my workspace.

I’m obsessed with a desk setup that’s just right and, while I already had some of this organized for my gaming PC, I was able to build a dual boot system that shares the same monitors and peripherals.

This is what’s on my desk for maximum productivity (and a little fun).

Apple M1 Mac Mini

Via Techradar

I had to adopt back to Mac during an awkward time. My bootcamp strongly suggested using Mac as a developers platform, so I had to make a choice: tried and true Intel or the brand new Apple Silicon M1?

The early reviews were overwhelmingly positive so I went M1 and I’m glad I did. This Mac mini is the base model, 8GB ram variant, and it screams. Most of the software I use (I’ll cover that in a future article) has already been optimized for the M1…