During my time at Palo Alto Networks, I spent most of my time working on a product called AutoFocus. It helped cyber security research teams identify files identified by our firewall for malware. It was pretty cool.

When I'm writing software I usually have the following windows open, all at the same time:

• 2 column layout VS Code (window = 2560 x 2160)
• A fullscreen-equivalent browser with usable console to see what I'm working on (window = 1920 x 2160)
• A large terminal window (window = 2560 x 1440)
• Chat GPT (window = 2560 x 1440)
• A full-screen browser with all the stuff I'm researching to help do whatever I'm doing (window = 2560 x 2880)

It looks like this:

I went through a number of iterations when it came to monitors. For a long time I used dual 32" 4K IPS screens, but even that wasn't quite enough pixels. It's hard to physically fit more than 2 32" screens on a desk - they're too wide already, and it would not be ergonomic to mount them above each other.

About a year ago I discovered these 16:18 ratio screens and bought 2 of them as side screens around the central 32" 4k screen. They're 2560x2880, providing ~7m pixels each, compared to ~8m pixels on a 4k screen. Another way to look at it is two 1440p screens stacked on top of each other.

This means that I can fit a full-height browser window on them without having to scroll, which is a huge productivity boost. Sometimes I'll stack 2 windows of top of each other if I want to see multiple references at once.