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Maximizing Ultrawide Monitors: The Only Correct Way
DeveloperExperience DX Post #2130, on Oct 8, 2020 in TG

Maximizing Ultrawide Monitors: The Only Correct Way

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A three-panel vertical meme demonstrating the supposed proper use of an ultrawide computer monitor for coding. The first panel shows a single code editor window on the far left, leaving most of the screen blank; this is marked with two large red 'X's, indicating disapproval. The second panel shows two code editor windows, one on each side, with a large empty space in the middle; this is also marked with a red 'X'. The final panel presents the 'correct' way: a single window where the code's indentation and structure spans the entire width of the screen, creating a visual pattern resembling a city skyline or an audio waveform. This is marked with a large green checkmark. The humor is satirical, mocking the obsession with maximizing screen real estate by presenting an absurdly impractical and unreadable coding format as the ideal. It jokes that instead of efficient multitasking, the true purpose of an ultrawide monitor is to accommodate monstrously long lines of code

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Finally, a monitor wide enough to view the full stack trace of a Java enterprise application
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Finally, a monitor wide enough to view the full stack trace of a Java enterprise application

  2. Anonymous

    Bought the 49″ ultrawide for “productivity,” but it just turned the VS Code minimap into a 4K flamegraph of our monolith - cheapest observability tool procurement ever

  3. Anonymous

    Spent three months convincing finance that an ultrawide would boost productivity, only to realize the real killer feature is watching kubectl get pods across 49 inches while waiting for that flaky integration test to finally pass

  4. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the classic ultrawide justification cycle: 'I need 49 inches to see multiple files side-by-side' → actually uses 15% for a single editor window → eventually realizes the only thing that truly deserves that screen real estate is a Grafana dashboard showing why the production deployment from 3am is still causing elevated p99 latencies. At least now you can watch all your microservices fail simultaneously in glorious 32:9 aspect ratio

  5. Anonymous

    Ultrawide is for flame graphs - code stops being readable past 120 columns, but contention stacks keep growing until you spot the ORM's N+1 crime scene

  6. Anonymous

    Code hits the boss's eyes: 502 Bad Gateway. Grafana dashboard: 200 OK, with 99.99% visual uptime

  7. Anonymous

    Ultrawide pro tip: editor ❌, split panes ❌ - full-width pprof flamegraph ✔. At scale you don’t read code, you hunt hotspots and p99s

  8. @gorqmorq 5y

    Rotate it, ediots!

    1. @dst212 5y

      It's already rotated, what's rotated is the camera which took the photo

  9. @solarburster 5y

    what a mess on the table

    1. @dst212 5y

      It is a form of decadence

    2. @lowerkinded 5y

      mine is the same

  10. @lowerkinded 5y

    i would open 4 column windows on it

  11. @AuroraStudio 5y

    а чё все по английски пишут с русскими никами)

    1. @AbsolutelyBased 5y

      'cause we can

      1. @AuroraStudio 5y

        мимикрировать чтоли)

      2. Deleted Account 5y

        understandable, have a nice day!

    2. @janeoa 5y

      Потому что не знают Украинский

  12. @Birard 5y

    Интеллектуалы

  13. Deleted Account 5y

    Ору out of the comments

  14. @Rostik1337 5y

    Ahuet

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