https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-4814/Wide-Span-Storag...
or perhaps the same thing ( in several sizes ) with a coat of gloss paint
Source: A technology hoarder who has too many shelves like this full of junk.
Edit: I stand corrected by @bobson381
I have several of these under the Gorilla Rack brand name and they're sold as Industrial Shelving Units. Home Depot in the US also sells these under the Muscle Rack and Edsal brands. These shelves are good, but I caution against using them in rooms with uneven floors (i.e., basement floors) because the feet are not adjustable. The particle board shelf surfaces can also deteriorate easily in moist environments. OP's shelf is one coffee spill away from a ruined shelf. That particle board is also made with formaldehyde and water damage will release it, FYI.
I have even more Wire Rack Shelves from various brands, all mostly with interchangable parts. A major brand is Nexel. There's also a lot of good parts available through the Metro brand sold by The Container Store. I appreciate the Wire Rack Shelving for it's modularity, adjustable feet, and also the ability to use caster wheels. You can always cut your own solid shelf surface from whatever material you like. The drawback is these Wire Rack Shelves cost twice as much as the Industrial Shelving Units.
I do have a whole rack in a garage kind of like it, but I was hoping I could get something nicer and painted like in the article, ideally with different length elements, so I could make custom furniture from them, and then just cut MDF boards to size or something.
Actually, I don't know if those are really plastic feet, or if they're just added to prevent metal from poking holes in the cardboard box during shipping.
The 4' width seems to be the biggest drawback with shelf-to-desk conversions like this. Dual monitor setups featuring screen sizes beyond 24" commonly require more than 4' width.
Cheap and flexible, although the way they work is different (uprights have holes drilled every 2cm or so for their entire length, and you insert metal dowels at the height you need and the shelves clip into that.
What sold it for me was that the IKEA ones are made of wood, so it makes it trivially easy to modify - cut a bit out here, screw something in there etc. This made it ideal for my shed workshop build where I needed some customisations for awkward tools and I could put a workbench exactly where I want it just by screwing it in. Finally just screw the uprights together and into the wooden walls of the shed and you have a rock-solid custom-built racking system that can be reconfigured and modified easily.
Reminds me of that scene[1] from the Silicon Valley TV show where that designer was tasked to design a server box and he started the meeting showing random pictures to the CEO with some bongo drum soundtrack in order to "establish a common vocabulary" lol, or the brand manual of the infamous Pepsi logo redesign fail[2] full of made up geometrical nature BS stories that the agency pulled out of their ass to milk Pepsi, which I'm sure is what the satire form Silicon Valley was based on.
At this point, I think designers just operate on the basis of "a fool an his money are easily parted".
[1] https://youtu.be/qyLv1dQasaY?si=yUwQU-9EQL3QMxbi&t=6
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/hspqgd/pepsi_logo_r...
It is all about fooling the viewer. Like for example seeing some run down old buildings in US or Eastern Europe will make people scoff, but if you show them similar looking run down buildings in South Mediterranean Europe or Japan they will be in awe. It's about perception.
>Design is subjective
No it isn't. Just like art and people's appearances, there's unanimously objective on what's beautiful and what's ugly.
The redesigned Pepsi logo is objectively worse, which is why it was so short lived and reverted back to the original design.
People who say there's no such thing as ugly design because it's al subjective are coping hard or trying to sell their design agency.
[0] https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Neither of those things is true. Plenty of artistic movements have been both praised and derided, and many people have a "type" which influences who they do (or don't) find attractive.
As to idea that there's a universally agreed-upon definition of objectively pleasing design, I suggest you take a look at the work of the Memphis Group.
The EE lab would put it over the top for me.
The rest goes from "meh" to "gross" (that fibreboard is getting _nasty_ even with a bit of sweat over a few months, not to mention its raw edge is going to result in blood loss sooner or later)
They're not bad keyboards but you can get superior custom tenkeyless or even fullsize ones (if you must) without even having to deal with group buys now.
How are tenkeyless keyboards "superior"? Missing keys are a feature now?
On laptops, usually a keypad is an automatic indicator of a terrible product meant for the less knowledgeable audience. The keypad causes the rest of the keyboard to be squished to the left, with the hands now shifted off center and closer than normal. Awful experience every time.
That has always baffled me. If you're using a computer professionally you have at least two monitors... and even one is as wide as a full sized keyboard or wider.
Not to mention that TKLs tend to also squeeze the arrow keys and the other navigation keys.
Smaller layouts (even 40%) have their advantages in minimizing how much you have to move your hands and fingers but there are tradeoffs (and a learning curve due to the necessary layers in the smallest ones).
But to me the real point of a TKL (87%) is to avoid having a dead space between your right typing hand and the rodent. If I were the type of person who wanted a numpad, I'd get a separate one and either put it to the right of the rodent, or to the left of the main keyboard.
But what I really want is more macro/F-keys. I use them to switch between desktops/windows, and 12 is just not enough. But I don't know if I've even seen a modern keyboard with even one extra row, never mind just stacking several more rows up top.
I'm finally going to try doing something about this. I've got a few of those cheap 4x6 keypads coming, as well as a 75% ortholinear (which is really just a fancy name for a 5x15 keypad, at least the one I'm getting with all 1u keys). I'm thinking the 4x6 keypads up top, and then maybe the 75% turned 90 degrees to the lefthand side of the main keyboard, for one continuous macropad surface? We'll see.
(FWIW I don't rely on the "home row" to touch type, so YMMV)
I suppose it depends on what the work is and your style. I tend to drive my IDEs from the keyboard. That of course means I want my PgUp PgDown Home End full size and not cramped.
The mouse is for circle strafing and then my right hand stays on the rodent.
Hmm do the newer 4x games still allow unit movement from the numpad? Of course with a hex map you don't have enough directional keys on there, but it could probably be done.
Don't have any Civ installed atm so I can't check easily.
On a TKL setup, the arrow keys are not cramped, they're full size and precisely where they're supposed to be.
The PgUp PgDown Home End (and Ins-Del, since that's the rest of that 6-key block) are full size and not cramped, and also precisely where they're supposed to be.
The website was purely because a friend and I were looking for design work during lockdown and put together a couple of things we recently worked on, but basic design and build was a fun ~6 months solo project.
We had a good discussion on https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/1mlo6hu/tryin... over the weekend with more details, but also happy to answer any questions here.
I basically never sim now because of how much of a hassle it is to get the whole thing setup. And then it just sits taking up space on the desk and I don't use the desktop for anything else for a while.
Looking through other comments here, it's absolutely wild how a tech-oriented audience are happy to completely disregard traditional design (interior, graphic, UI, ...), while championing technology design (systems & databases).
Sadly, this is not true for most of us. :-(
Preference disagreement: I absolutely need my workspace to be different from my gaming space, or I’d go totally nuts.
But, there’s an objectively correct answer for the placement of the camera, subject, monitors, and window, to avoid glare and getting washed out. Does anyone know if they did it right?
Preach. I made this wonderful office for myself. It's got name brand monitor stands, I only need one cable, the desk mat is cute, and there's a huge pegboard for all my work hardware.
After a month or so, I preferred working on the kitchen table with a laptop. Brains are funny things.
https://www.instructables.com/The-Perfect-Instructable-build...
Unfortunately such situation, in countries where space is at massive premium, leads to wasted human potential. People would love to have hobbies, experiment but simple lack of space very much prevent that.
So if your parents are not rich or you yourself don't have a job that could let you rent a workshop or studio, then it is extremely frustrating and leads to depression. I know someone who got to the point of suicide, because he couldn't find any way to get space to pursue his interests. He felt like an absolute failure and that the world didn't want him to exist.
It's really hard to overcome that feeling once it's there, but you somehow have to find that space in yourself and through others. Some of the most talented and skilled people I know live in the weirdest places, but somehow managed to find their place. If you're lucky to live in a big city, check out spaces like Noisebridge or Resistor, or whatever your local equivalent is.
If that's not an option, maybe the internet can help. Don't know if for example engineering is your thing, but the reason I respect folks like IMSAI Guy or bigclivedotcom on Youtube so much isn't just that they really know what they're talking about, they also seem like really decent people and found their place. They don't seem to be particularly rich or fancy, and I'm sure they have their own stuff to deal with in their lives, but they kept going until they found their place. Long rant, hope it helps somehow/somewhat.
But now that I think of it, most of the time I spend in there I'm sitting at my chair and looking at the monitors. I never look back. So I'm basically using the same space as this office.
Maybe subconsciously knowing i have some space behind me before I hit the wall helps...
Like you I have diverse, equipment-laden hobbies: guitar/piano/dj/drums/photography and work from home.
It's really hard to feel like you can quickly get to all of those activities, without reconfiguring -anything- and creating spaces tuned to all those things.
Love that this approach is easy to change w/ the industrial wall shelving.
Also appreciate touching on some of the specialized equipment that tends to come into play.
Before that, I often used to work out of random / public places, and I when I got really stuck just change scenery. Being able to switch modes built that weird sense of home, knowing that when I get stuck, I can switch modes for a bit and do / work on something else, and no matter what the space would be there for me. Hard to describe without sounding too prosaic, but really glad to have built it.
Mostly bottom of back shelves and behind vertical shelf beams.
I've very different aesthetics and gear, but took ideas from this for sure. Loved the conferencing setup, for example.
I'm just a bit perplexed as to how this particular combination of things came together.
> Location: Brooklyn, NY
This must be the most convoluted way I have ever seen for simply saying "I've put up some shelves".
KRK seem to have grilles on theirs, but I want something with a flatter sound.
Any HN'ers out there got any tips?
My biggest change for my home setup has been moving away from a KVM with work and personal computers on a single desk to multiple desks where I'm physically moved. I prefer to have my feet on the ground, so don't like the drafting chair or barstool foot rests. I've also moved to 45" (U)WQHD displays (3440x1440) for my work spots. I have two Xeneon Flex and another display of the same size that's by LG.
It's kind of like 2x large 3:4 aspect displays glued together mostly pinning apps to half the screen on one side or the other. My vision is pretty bad, so having the larger pixels helps a lot for my visibility and being able to function. It's also worth noting that I didn't pay full retail for any of the screens. The Xeneon goes on sale for about half price every couple months on Corsair's site, and I picked up the LG as a return from BestBuy for about $550, which was a pretty good deal for what it is.
I also tend to prefer physical switch keyboards, currently backlit Das keyboards with Cherry-MX Brown switches. My mouse is a Logitech with a weighted scroll wheel. I do like the Unicomp keyboards more, but they're a bit more noisy so I settle with the browns.
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To me this is the same as hiring a development firm to build you a set of dotfiles.
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