I’m away from home over the next several days, which means I’m currently using my travel workstation setup!
It includes:
- My MacBook Pro (refurbed 2021 model, M1 with 32GB RAM; if it’s good enough from Tampa Bay’s most notorious Python programmer, it’s probably good enough for you)
- Not one, but two portable monitors (one I bought, one’s a freebie from an old workplace)
- Small Bluetooth keyboard (Logitech K380, still the best travel keyboard) and mouse (Logitech M325S; nice and small, but not too small)
- External webcam (Logitech Brio) and microphone (Blue Yeti; a Christmas present from Anitra from years back that still works like a charm)
- Donner M-25 MIDI keyboard and good ol’ GarageBand for Mac (I’m working on some videos)
- Sony MDR-V500 headphones that my deadbeat ex-housemate left behind back in 2001, and which I use only when traveling
I’ve also using books I left here as laptop and monitor stands:
For the smaller monitor, Volume I of 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps from my time as a Microsoft developer evangelist and Windows Phone community champ.
For the bigger monitor, the old “Holy Trinity” from the Apple Technical Library from back in 1992: Inside Macintosh Overview, Macintosh Toolbox Essentials, and More Macintosh Toolbox, which were essential reading if you wanted to write applications for the Mac during the days of System 7.
And for the MacBook, I’m propping them up with the Software Engineering Classics box with Debugging the Development Process, Dynamics of Software Development, and Software Project Survival Guide, topped off with a copy of the original Dive Into Python autographed by the author, Mark Pilgrim, as a thank you for the review I wrote in Slashdot all those years ago.