I had some experience as a compliance manager. My prior role was not technical.

Most junior engineers at my company have been hired through cold applications straight out of school.

1 day a week in the office, a couple weeks of travel a year, company is pretty chill with workload.

I got my software engineering job by cold applying through the company’s website straight out of school in late 2024…

Yeah exactly. I kept a second one on-site until I went 95% remote.

The phone stands also let me get precise adjustment on the height of the keyboards, so they feel like they’re lined up:

At the bottom of the photo, there are two wrist rests I built out of some spare wood and a wrist rest off of Amazon that I cut in half with a saw and then stitched/glued closed so it doesn’t look like hell.

The keyboard halves are stuck to some phone stands using an adhesive Magsafe ring, and the stands are stuck down to the black steel plate with some flat magnets and grippy silicone. The entire thing breaks down in seconds and I can store it to bring to the office. The steel plate is the most annoying thing to transport.

Happy to answer other questions!

That’s why I have a vertical mouse and I built a split vertical keyboard!

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