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One of the side effects of moving house has been that I'm now going to be working from home after being in a coworking space for the last two years. I enjoyed having a dedicated office space for myself, mainly because I had the commute to separate work from home, and it was a separate space that was just about work, so fewer blurred lines. It doesn't make sense to be paying for a desk now that I have space to work from here, though.

My plan to retain that separation is to still do a "commute" by going out on my bike in the mornings and evenings for at least 30 minutes. I'm also planning on getting a little room divider to go around my desk so my wife can still pass through the room I work in without feeling exposed when I'm on a video call1.

On the plus side, I get to spend more time with my family, and I'm excited to do the school run again. I've also been able to put together a pretty nice desk setup that I couldn't really do in the coworking space due to size and background noise constraints.

Photograph of my desk. Shows two monitors, one vertical attached to an arm. On the desk is an iphone being used as a webcam, a mechanical keyboard, a Macbook Pro, and a Yeti microphone


  1. Which, given I pair program pretty much all day, is a given. ↩︎