| Name | Matt G. (aka Maggew) |
| Location | South Jersey, USA – 15m from Philadelphia |
| Occupation | Webmaster |
| Room Size | 450 ft² = 18'x25′ = 41.8 m² |
| Cost of Setup | ~$500 |
| Links | Maggew.com |
Hello! Tell us a bit about yourself
Howdy, my name is Matt, I was born in the beautiful Garden State, New Jersey.
I love cars, chess computers and cycles. My three brothers and I had a fantastic childhood, and I wouldn't change it for anything. When I was around 10 or 11, I played 1000s a hours of strategy games like Age of Empires II, C&C Red Alert, Warcraft and the likes; Diablo 1 & 2 were incredible too! My favorite class, the Javazon was named AgileThunder. ?
Take us through your setup
| Item | Model |
|---|---|
| Monitor | Acer Nitro 27″ WQHD 2560 x 1440 |
| Storage | NVMe 232GB WDC WD2500AAKX-753CA1 (2) 120GB LITEON in Raid Array / Storage Pool |
| GPU | Nvidia 3060 12GB |
| CPU, Ram, Mobo | OptiPlex 990, i7 2600 @ 3.40GHz + 32GB 665MHz Ram (9-9-9-24) |
| Monitor mount | Wooden Collector Edition Risk Box and Video Card Box |
| Speakers | Klipsche Pro Media 2.1 |
| Headphones | Black Sony MDR-ZX100 |
| Mouse & Keyboard | Corsair Harpoon Gaming Set |
| Chair | $5 Wooden Captains Chair from Antique Store |
| Desk | Custom-made using IKEA legs, a door and old bookshelf |
| Speakers Stand | (2) 1″ thick wooden pencils to elevate speakers toward ears |
| Misc. | M. Bison Metal Statue, MUJI Aluminum Fountain Pen, 140 lb (300 gsm) 4×6 Card stock, TS3122 AIO, Red Ryder BB Gun, Family Autographed Baseball. |
As a teenager, I wanted to be smart with computers and also play sports, so I spent my time with Basketball and a Warlock in Warcraft only to retire after a year into TBC… still dabbling in Basketball I tried my hands at Web Development and the rest is history.
By age 18, I've done various jobs like pumping gas, working at Lowe's, washing cars, fixing cars and riding bicycles and motorcycles. This is when I pretty much focused entirely on my desire to build a business. I was not very good at first, getting customers was tough so I would try using websites like Upwork, Guru and the likes but was very very hard to compete with cheap, outsourced, exploited labor. Fast forward a bit and I was sending USPS mail, making cold calls and finding word of mouth customers with craigslist.
What software do you like?
| GUI | |
| Apps | AHK, ShareX, Enpass, DisplayFusion Triggers, Laragon, Signal / Telegram, |
| Browser | Floorp, Thorium, Iridium and most browsers are copy-cat chromium forks. Waterfox is impressive and fast, ungoogled-chromium, Cent Browser, Iridium and Brave are recommended. Stay away from Chrome, Firefox, Safari and the other big guys. |
| Extensions | OneTab, ClearURLs, ViolentMoneky, |
I think that might be it. Best of luck to anyone and everyone reading this. Wait! I almost forgot, the 4 tips I promised you guys…
- Do not make your chair very comfortable or you will forget about stretching and neglect your body requirements… should be aiming for a 5 or 6 out of 10 comfort.
- One of my favorite upgrades are my speakers, everyone should have a REALLY NICE pair that bumps so you can set the tone for entire day, each and every day.
- My giant mousepad is one of the latest investments that I wish I would have acquired at the very beginning, it makes such a huge difference, I was debating cork and still might get one of those…
- If you drink all day, consider getting a non-USB, gravity sensor mug heater for $20.
Inspiration
- https://zetup.me/random
- https://www.workspaces.xyz/
- https://www.makerstations.io/
- https://setupscout.com/
- https://mydesktour.com/
- https://scooget.com/setups/creators
Just updated the software list a couple more… ?