At the computer desk where my desktop computer already is.
In an ICU room. I was the visitor. The patient had dozed off. I had a client wanting reports for a board meeting. Finance does not pause for family emergencies.
Hiked out to a hot spring at Big Bend National Park with my laptop, my satellite dish, and a big solar panel, and spent my day working with my feet dabbling in the river.
That was a pretty awesome day for me but I bet in 50 years people will just be irritated that all the cool places are full of losers trying to get work done and ruining the vibe
Toilet. Back in the day, the startup I worked for had their servers in the bathroom closet, and the toilet was conveniently located close by.
Sucked having to wait for people to get out of the bathroom, to get into the server room tho lol
lol wut, why would you put the servers in the Bathroom Closet?
It was a startup in an old Victorian. There weren’t any other options.
Probably on a porch in the winter.
The elevator shaft in 100+ year-old building while running Ethernet cables between the 8th and 9th floor.
That actually sounds pretty cool. Was it?
A windowless room in the upper floors of a military air terminal. NASA interns left beer in the fridge somewhere else up there IIRC. Kinda boring tbh.
Strangely its also the most comfortable room atmosphere I’ve been in. Literally just folding tables and chairs, but there was lots of hardwood trim.
Had to check for unknown WiFi signals for a client. So I was walking around with my laptop in hand and a WiFi antenna. So cafeteria, toilet, staircase, server room, chill out lounge, parking spot and rooftop. It was pretty funny trying to assign all the WiFi networks to the cars in the parking lot and to the other buildings and stores around. That day I learned just how far away you can still see WiFi networks if you use a reasonably strong antenna (just a usb-stick basically).
The 9th story of an 8-story building.
How?
Because, even though it wasn’t labeled as such and people didn’t know it was up there, it was, in fact, up there.
Interesting architectural mystery
There was storage and HVAC stuff, and the elevator didn’t go that high. Just a plain door, usually unlocked, at the top of the steps.
That’s my dream office haha. Somewhere that no one knows exists.
Pulled over on the highway in Chicago. This just when phones started being hot spots, and I got an emergency service call about a software glitch, had to write and upload a fix from my car.
I was on call during a work team night out at a darts place and had to get on the WiFi there to check it out an incident
It was one of those ones that has a camera for action replays and I’m in the background of one tapping away
On the standing bench at a beach bar in the Caribbean wearing jeans while programming
Driving through the middle of the Rockies. This was back when you would have to get a physical internet card to get Internet anywhere outside your home, and it wasn’t getting any signal.
on the roof of the Regenstein Library
While in line for a banquet. Had to show my pass sent to me by email, had my laptop on me, and didn’t want to log in on my phone.
