> Reflecting on John Carmack and his big monitor. I habitually work in single window terminals with relatively low row counts and big fonts. I seem to be unable to get a benefit from seeing more stuff all at once.
I think this may be a variation on the "same" thing. For me, I only look at code or the UI output, or the requirements, or a database query at any one time.
But... I really like if the code is always in the same place, and the output is always in the same place, and I can just look between them if I'm thinking about how and why the code is resulting in the thing it is. But I know where each of those things is at any time, and it might only be a glance away, or an alt-tab away.
(For me, it's 2 27" QHD monitors rather than one big or small monitor.)
I think this may be a variation on the "same" thing. For me, I only look at code or the UI output, or the requirements, or a database query at any one time.
But... I really like if the code is always in the same place, and the output is always in the same place, and I can just look between them if I'm thinking about how and why the code is resulting in the thing it is. But I know where each of those things is at any time, and it might only be a glance away, or an alt-tab away.
(For me, it's 2 27" QHD monitors rather than one big or small monitor.)