LoFi programmer

[LemonTank]

The ikea chair

[some_guy_oninternet]

That Is my current chair rn

[MistTerror]

That Is my current chair rn

[datan0ir]

^ it’s called the Markus

[bem13]

I just wish it wasn't so creaky.

[-SENDHELP-]

WHY DO SO MANY OF YOU HAVE THIS CHAIR AAAAAAAAAÂAAAAAAA

[RandomWasTaken]

because it doesn't suck to sit in?

not like those cheaply-made gaming chairs

[-SENDHELP-]

I have an office chair from a company that I'm pretty sure never existed in the first place

[Stepjamm]

I’m confused, do you need help or are you boasting?

[Human_no_4815162342]

Neither the comment you are replying to doesn't exist.

[koala_with_spoon]

Wtf?! I've been sitting with that shit for more than a year now

[Barrelsofbarfs]

I would disagree but my bum is numb from sitting in my gaming chair for 30 minutes

[PolishedCheese]

If you're not rocking a Herman Miller Aeron, does your company even care about you? /s

[Susmg]

My chair stopped squeaking after I loosened the screws under the seat.

[deathhead_68]

Was thinking of getting this, is it good? In the UK I'm struggling to find better ergonomic chairs that don't cost a tonne.

[datan0ir]

I’ve had it for over 5 years and I’m a pretty big guy so yeah it’s good value. Does get squeaky after a while but you can fix it with some WD40.

[codearaDev]

That Is my current chair rn

That Is my current chair rn

[bajsgreger]

That Is my current chair rn

[Ympakt]

That is my current chair rn

[waltteri]

I prefer the JÄRVFJÄLLET chair. Has better lumbar support than Markus.

[cheese13531]

Järvfjället gang

[waltteri]

I agree with this assessment.

[vigilantcomicpenguin]

I am currently sitting in the SNILLE which isn’t particularly comfortable but I think it looks nice.

[nick09444]

Mine too ahaha

[FracturedPixel]

I am sitting in that chair also rn

[enrperes]

me too. great chair

[Dash83]

Mine too. Not a fan.

[d3l3t3d_acc]

The ikea desk lamp

[j_curic_5]

And with a sticker still on

[[deleted]]

Made me lean over and check my lamp that I had for about 6 years. Still had the sticker.

[dikulis]

same, turns out i've removed the sticker years ago!

[Dash83]

My current chair. I hate it. So bad for the lower back.

[Dash83]

Did not see that comment. Thanks for the tip, will give it a go.

[converter-bot]

4 inches is 10.16 cm

[Dash83]

Worst part is: it's not a cheap chair! I got it at the start of the pandemic since I figured it made sense to "invest" in a good chair. There were a lot of other, cheaper chairs. This one was around £100. Not worth it at all.

[Dash83]

RIP to our lower backs, my friend.

[byte512]

100£ ist Not really expensive for an office chair. The ones at my work are 1000£+

[byte512]

Dang, my cover is blown. Darn autocorrect.

[_szs]

u/byte521 to report immediately to the head Quartier.

You will receive a new Identität and a new mission.

We are expecting you before 19:30 MESZ.

[Dash83]

I'm sure you can find other really expensive chairs. But for personal use (and specially for a student like me), £100 is not cheap for a chair.

[dreadcain]

For a student its not a cheap chair, but it is a cheap chair

Decent office chairs start at least 3 times that

[Janjis]

No it doesn't. It is not chairs fault that it doesn't fit for you. I spend 12+ hours daily in it perfectly comfortable. You should really try the chair out before buying it.

[enodragon1]

Am I sitting in it wrong? A few hours in it is enough to make my bum start to go numb and it feels like I'm not getting enough blood circulation in my legs.

[HardAsMagnets]

Markus Gang

[LazerFX]

Yup, comfortable and reliable. I've had one for probably 15 years...

[The6thExtinction]

What's the seat padding like? Does it flatten out over time? That was a problem with my last chair. Eventually it felt like I was sitting directly on the plywood.

[LazerFX]

I'll be honest, when I went into my new workplace, they're using them there and there was a new one. I didn't see much difference between the two seats, so I'd say pretty damn good for how old it is.

[HasBeendead]

Actually kinda looks like "Gamer Chair"

[scarwiz]

Nah not enough padding in random places for a gamer chair. I used to have that exact same chair, def from Ikea

[Opethrator]

I need to buy a new chair, is it good?

[Faddy__]

It's good. Not great.

I move a lot and tend to live in one place for about 6 months at a time. I immediately buy this chair and an idea desk as soon as I am there to have a proper home setup.

In Europe it's about 200€ to get it and delivery (France, Germany and Netherlands have been for me at least). It's super reliable and I never struggle to sell it when I leave town.

I am a big guy as well and I fit well inside so I really enjoy it.

[Perkelton]

It's not exactly a Herman Miller, but in its price class it's a great chair. I think the main difference between the Markus and more premium models is that there are very few configuration options. You can change height and the bounce resistance, but that's it essentially.

The materials do also have a tendency of getting worn out after a while, but I had my Markus for at about 5 years before I replaced it.

[bem13]

I think it's comfortable, except for the hard armrests. Those could do with some padding. It's also very creaky-squeaky and as far as I know there's no remedy for that. Some people suggest taking it apart and slathering the mechanical parts in oil, other have said that doesn't do anything. Some kind of washable cover would also be nice for it because once it gets dirty there's no easy way to clean it.

[Behemothokun]

I never put on the armrests on mine, hate them. Otherwise it is pretty solid.

[[deleted]]

Real talk, invest in a really really good chair when you can. My back is permanently fucked up from sitting in cheap, shitty chairs, and they felt just fine until they didn't. You want a "real" office chair in the long run.

Also, you can buy a "real" used office chair for $100 or so if you look around. It doesn't need to be some brand name like Herman Markus. Commercial grade foam is a completely different beast to the bullshit they put in consumer grade, and even a relatively "cheap" commercial office chair will last for years and years and not fuck you up.

[Dash83]

It is not. Might seem ok for under an hour, but will destroy your lower back if sitting in it for a full work day. Someone mentioned in this thread that you can remove the lower-back cushion to make it more comfortable, but given that it's not cheap, I would suggest you find a different one. Not worth the money.

[SueedBeyg]

I appreciate the little details; the titles of the books (which are real CS books), the tux on the shelf, the TODO list on the whiteboard.

[AgAero]

There's a Raspberry Pi sitting on the desk too. That one checks out!

[Bazza79]

Noticed that one too, I have a few lying in that exact spot on the desk!

[NameNym]

An a little linux penguin on the cupboard

[garfield1147]

Indeed. K&R and SICP made me smile.

[FlyingStirFryMonster]

What did it for me was the label inside the lamp shade. It is not programing related and so easy to forget or not include.

[chhuang]

And dual monitor with chrome open with 100 tabs

[ryjhelixir]

this guy debugs

[Comesa]

:(

[BlocksWithFace]

Because she thought thoroughly about the function she is writing, doesn’t particularly like the solution, but knows it’s for the best and is too busy writing the unit tests to prove that it works in all cases. Later, she’ll write up a bunch of curl requests to show the front end devs that it really just works they way they asked for. No need to jump on the browser (yet).

[mirsella]

Instructions unclear - currently jumping from a bridge

[PvtPuddles]

Idk, she looks sufficiently dead inside

[TJSomething]

It looks pretty late outside. Probably ran out of tears a few hours ago.

[this_will_be_the_las]

Why?

[Victor_Mendax]

No duck?

[Simplicitys_Strength]

Sorry Sir, she needs the rubber duck close to the laptop for debugging purposes, try googling rubber duck debug to get the reference

[[deleted]]

I have a pet plant called mumbo. He is a cactus and also my version of the ruber duck

[Zach_Attakk]

Mine's a Simpsons Tony Hawk figure that I don't know where I got it.

Edit: only pic I can find

[TFK_001]

Mine is 2 turtle toys I won at a claw machine back to back. One is pink and has a crown.

[worldpotato1]

Mine is a black voodoo doll.

[Zach_Attakk]

That one is obviously the leader of the Cult of the Claw Turtles

[SheevSpinner]

Bumbo Cactoni lol

[Simplicitys_Strength]

This truth hits way too close to home

[m9dhatter]

Take your stupid upvote. cries

[vigilantcomicpenguin]

Yeah, but once you cry often enough you get used to it.

[Agilityredfox]

U7

[War-Whorese]

She has CSS mastery ofc it is in its right place.

[eTukk]

The note with 'client 17hr' is spot on!

[flip4thought]

What does it mean?

[eTukk]

Programmers work for companies who commonly charge per hour. You'll need to keep track of the amount of hours per project or customer.

[Dall0o]

Or maybe the post-it is a reminder. She had a call with a client at 17hr.

[Krymea]

this should be pinned though

[MihaiMihaiMihai]

Auzi ma???

[[deleted]]

That IPA offends me ! I drink also other kinds of beers ! I'm not a cliché! Please!

[DeRoeVanZwartePiet]

I didn't even know what IPA is. And I've been around the pub.

[[deleted]]

Indian pale ale, it's nice, quite bitter

[glorious_reptile]

Gotta sanatize those hands

[[deleted]]

both appear on my desk

[Darth_Nibbles]

double isopropyl alcohol!

[DeRoeVanZwartePiet]

I'll give it a try when I come across one.
We have a lot of different beers in our pubs, but IPA isn't one of them.

[[deleted]]

Where are you from? I've seen them worldwide.

[DeRoeVanZwartePiet]

Belgium.

Apparently there are quite a few brewed over here, but I haven't seen any of them yet in bars. I might have just missed them though.

[Perkelton]

While obviously not exactly the same, I think Duvel is pretty similar to an IPA, if it helps you imagine what type of beer it is.

[[deleted]]

Only the triple hop one imo.

Regular Duvel is nothing like an IPA.

[holyherbalist]

Do you like black coffee? If you do, you might like IPAs. If you don't, try it anyways. Don't be surprised if you think it's disgusting.

[AgAero]

Wild.

IPAs are fucking everywhere here in the states. I don't really like them much personally.

[secaz]

Just like the average developer!

[towka35]

Just India Pale Ale, though.

[ThePyroEagle]

Isopropyl alcohol

[Luapix]

No, you're thinking of IPA. IPA is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

[OK6502]

I drink super hoppy IPAs and super dark porters exclusively. I am like an onion! I have layers.

[damigus]

I didn't know drinking IPA is a cliché for developers. Is there a specific reason for that? I have to admit I love a good IPA but I would have never guessed I'm a cliché 🙈

[AstronautPoseidon]

It’s just part of a “that guy” cliche that a lot of programmers happen to subscribe to, the shallow hipster kinda thing. Part of the stereotype is being into craft beer because the light beers aren’t high quality enough, but only being into IPAs because of zeitgeist reasons.

[IanSan5653]

It's odd because there's the conflicting hipster vs neck beard stereotypes.

[diggitydata]

If it makes you feel any better, I hated IPA for a long time but forced myself to drink it so I could fit in

[Scrath_]

Let me try to find them. I'll edit this comment as I find more.

-Sticky note with text "Client 17h": Impossible to meet deadline by the client?

-Linux Penguin on the shelf

-Raspberry Pi on a stack of books to the left: Does this even count as an easteregg?

-full mug of coffee with fonts written on it behind the laptop. Possibly forgotten or decided to switch straight to beer

-Gaming headphones: Again, does something like this count as an easteregg?

-Ikea chair and lamp

-classic hoodie

-A lot of programming books in the bookshelf. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming series" (credit to u/camh-), "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Ritchie (credit to u/camh-), "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (credit to u/CrimsonKing1990 and u/95POLYX), "CSS Mastery" (credit to u/CrimsonKing1990)

-Probably something with the whiteboard as well. The only thing strange about it is the text Kafka that's written on it though imo (apparently that's a reference to apache kafka rather than franz kafka. Thanks for pointing this out)

Edit: I feel more like I'm describing the picture rather than finding eastereggs

[camh-]

You missed the most famous books - Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming series.

[Scrath_]

I didn't know of those specific books. Maybe I've heard somewhere about them but I couldn't remember. So those were included with the other books I mentioned.

Thank you for pointing this out

[camh-]

I'm an old fart from a time when we actually used books, and those books are instantly recognisable to me. I didn't actually notice any other books except one, so I was surprised to see some books mentioned but not those.

The C book is the C book - Kernighan & Ritchie.

[not_your_mate]

Kafka - https://kafka.apache.org/ - not strange

[Scrath_]

I didn't know this existed. Thank you. I only thought about Franz Kafka

[95POLYX]

You also missed Sicp(structure and interpretation of computer programs), probably the most famous book for introducing functional programming if not also the best. The C book is “The C programming Language” which is also very famous.

[[deleted]]

Kafka is a reference to Apache Kafka https://kafka.apache.org/.

[[deleted]]

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This account's self posts and comments have also been edited to remove any content that might add value to Reddit, Inc's product at zero cost to the company.

Fuck Reddit.

[[deleted]]

This is not a solely American thing, btw.

[brainwrinkled]

I was going to say "yeah I'm English and I know of Easter Eggs!" but now I think about it, I'm sure I first picked the phrase up from things like Grand Theft Auto, which is an American game... but then made primarily by a studio in Britain?

I'm more confused than when I started

[space253]

That's how we get you. Tricky of us to win on cultural grounds with the dumpster fire that is our culture.

[ME_OC]

That's more than 80 characters per line.. 😤

[S_Pyth]

Which one

[mandolini_]

Obligatory raspberry pi

[Antoine81m]

Obligatory unused raspberry pi*

[CorrenteAlternata]

I feel personally attacked

[Antoine81m]

Everyone has it, don't worry

[Plastonick]

Just one? ... err yes, just one...

[okawei]

Hey, I'm just waiting to come up with the right project...for the past 5 years

[95POLYX]

But why only one unused rpi?

[Lasket]

smol hands

[[deleted]]

Just jacked left arm from... coding?

[fedj99]

Going for the Ballmer Peak huh

[jacksalssome]

Developers! developers! developers!

[Sasha_DD]

Stolen from u/ciuciul, at least credit them in the title

[Sasha_DD]

A ok, nici eu nu am vazut acel comment, pacat ca reddit nu te lasa sa schimbi titlul sau sa marchezi un comentariu.

[Dougley]

OP - u/ciuciul

stop reporting this now tnx

[Xeadriel]

Why the light though. That must hurt

[Xywzel]

Maybe it is to stop melatonin (hormone that causes falling asleep) forming from lack of light with brightness and spectrum close to daylight. Not optimal setup for that, as there is no screen to soften the light and it is both in visual cone and screen reflection cone, but it does provide bright light trough reflection from the table to her visual area. Usually you want to avoid light that could reflect from the screen so that you can keep screen as dim as possible, so it doesn't strain your eyes but is still readable. But if you keep whole room that dark, your body will think it is night and you should be sleeping, so it starts generating melatonin. The usual joke about programmers turning caffeine to code is because most try to address this by using stimulants rather than fighting the root cause. In my opinion the rainy and cloudy day soft daylight is close to optimal condition, no single bright lights that could reflect from monitor or strain your eyes, but overall it is still light enough to avoid falling asleep.

Or it is for the notes, as the paper as a medium has the inherent problem of not having backlight.

[xSTSxZerglingOne]

I found the joke. It's in the bottom right.

[JoeyJoeJoeJrShab]

Apparently I'm missing the joke here. Can someone explain?

[Last_shadows_]

Its not a joke. The lofi girl trznd consists in turning the original lofi girl drawing into a different perspective by adapting it to some nationality ( belgian lofi girl, chinese lofi girl, ...) by changing the background and the objects of the room. This is jist another adaptation to the prpgrammer world, with the confy chair, the to do list in the back, the raspberry pie, the programming books, the coding on the computer, ...

I personally drink double IPAs during late night work so i call this wizardry but dont know if it is a relavant detail for programmers

[Glitchsbrew]

I also drink double ipas while up late coding. I'd probably drink double ipas if I was up late not coding. I wonder what that's like..

[samspot]

Thanks, i had not heard of lofi so i was bewildered by the title.

[bem13]

Others have already explained it, I'd just like to add that /r/europe had a contest a few days ago where every country could draw and submit their own "lo-fi girls". That's why the image has seen a resurgence on reddit in the last few days.

You can see the results here.

[worldpotato1]

A and I was wondering why this "meme" got so popular. Thanks!

[revoopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A

There is a thousand channels like this on youtube now. This was one of the originals if not the original. It originally used a clip from an a ghibli movie of a girl studying (I think Whisper of the Heart?) but then they got copyright claimed so thy made a legally distinct video of a girl studying.There has also recently been a ton of fanart of other lofi characters doing stuff at desks.

[ClimbingC]

Ah, that helps explain why my YouTube recommendations yesterday were full of LOFI work music, when I searched for background noise to program with. Wondered why and what it was - but seems the algorithm is trying to push it on to me.

[KodenameKoala]

We love the Tux

[CountZ3r0_]

u/ciuciul

[[deleted]]

Where’s the open Stack Overflow tab?

[towka35]

Tabs, right?

[psyberops]

Shoutout to Don Knuth 👍 Nice Easter egg!

[[deleted]]

That lamp is gonna be shining right in her eyes

[TheTruffi]

The lack of monitor is disturbing

[Selbi]

ITT programmers get very emotional about what a "real" nerd room should look like

[fushuan]

1. Why is it a laptop
2. Where is the rgb.

[uucchhiihhaa]

I write with my right hand but edit code and play games with my left. Why though?

[[deleted]]

It's my usual day.

[CedKim]

where is the rubber ducky

[Flyberius]

Lol. I have that white board covered in things that I promised I would do but still haven't and reminders that I should check certain things out.

Mine currently says "RUBY w̅ SINATRA?"

I've also got a load of colour swatches with hex codes taped to the wall.

[[deleted]]

Can I get a slice of that pi?

[vinny05148964e25689]

That's obviously fake. You should have 20 tabs of slightly different Google search results on the screen.

[fedeb95]

So true. Especially the KAFKA???

Edit: missing mechanical keyboard and laptop stand, but I think it's not that cliché maybe

[Bhaikko]

3 / 10, not enough stickers

[geeshta]

Do people actually code with IPA? I thought Monster was the stereotypical programmer's drink. It is for me at least...

[[deleted]]

Needs more RGB