The light bars took two years

Two 27 inch screens used to stand either side of the middle one. They were too heavy and they took too much space, so filipluch took them out and put up a pair of 18 inch portable screens on end. He writes software and shares a screen most days, so the three screens hold chat on one side, the shared window in the middle and the call on the other. An ultrawide gave him none of that, because a window either fills it or floats in it.

All three hang on one triple arm, on a single beam behind the desk. The middle screen carries its mounting holes low, which left the side screens about twenty centimetres under it, so he drew a VESA shifter, printed it and put the model up for anyone else to print. Each side screen runs on one USB-C cable for picture and power, through a right angle adapter that keeps the cable flat.

Four bars sit around the screens and light both ways. The back of each one washes the grey wall, which is what keeps his eyes comfortable through twelve hour days, and the front turns towards him on a call. He designed and built them himself, two years and a crowdfunding round in, and he does not sell them now. He is quick to say a few ten dollar LED strips behind the screens do the same job for the wall.

The top is a thirty by seventy inch walnut slab from Etsy, on a dual motor standing frame. He would not buy real wood again: it needs cleaning and oiling, and it went up in price by about forty per cent since he bought it. The cables under it are held on double sided tape rather than through drilled holes. Two rolling side desks carry the speakers off the desk, on plastic wheels over the carpet.

A Keychron Q1 sits on a felt mat with a wooden wrist rest, and an MX Master sits to the right of it. The Audient EVO 4 in front of the middle screen takes the microphone and the speakers, and a Thunderbolt dock behind it feeds a Mac. Framed camera patent drawings and small trailing plants cover the wall, and the forest running across the three screens is two photographs from Unsplash.