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I use both. When I am in the office I have almost the same setup you describe. Code on the right on a vertical monitor and the program itself on the left. Howev

I use both. When I am in the office I have almost the same setup you describe. Code on the right on a vertical monitor and the program itself on the left. However when I am on my laptop at home it's not that bad, it's just a bit more work to tab back and forth between the terminal, editor, and program a bit more. This argument about which is better is really silly imo. It's not like tabbing or switching focus is the main waste of time. I'd be willing to bet a lot of people arguing for either side spend more time browsing HN or Reddit than managing their workflow :V (speculation obvs)

ge96 9y ago
Interesting the right/left preference. Not sure if that's related to right/left handed or side preference I don't know. Like you read a book from left to right (sorry probably an arbitrary thought). I too thought about the vertical oriented monitor is it good? You see more lines. I like the minmap for VSCode if you happen to use that. To see a code pattern/structure at a glance.
- lfowles 9y ago
  I had dual monitors at the office and at home. For me it really depended on where my chair was. I have a slight bias toward the left monitor at home, so my primary activity goes there. At work, my chair was slightly biased towards the right monitor so I put primary activities there. (I also experimented with vertical monitor at work, but with the provided monitors the viewing angle was too awful. I bet it would be awesome with the right screens though.)
  - ge96 9y ago
    Haha damn chairs I have this L-shaped desk and I feel cramped on the right side. Ahh man did a data entry job, god I wanted to eat a bullet. Found a good keyboard though. A wired Microsoft 600 or something they're cheap but flat unlike those tall keys on older keyboards.
- CorvusCrypto 9y ago
  vertical monitor is a blessing and a curse at times. For just coding, it's great because I have more lines to reference at once. However when I show the directory tree for my projects my width is small and sometimes hard to deal with. Same problem with having a mini-map sadly. I actually am right handed and read left-to-right. My dominant screen is my left screen and it used to be my editor screen, but I switched my code to the right because nowadays more of my work is server monitoring, communication, and review of code. The wider screen space is nice for this.
  - ge96 9y ago
    Yeah I do wish min-map only expanded when you hovered over that area, too eager to post issues/requests though on their GitHub. What do you use for server monitoring? Do you have fail overs... I recently implemented server side encryption and was running into memory exhaustion problems, upped cores/ram. Was surprised to read it's bad or less performant when your computer starts using swap. Man $34/mo seems expensive for hosting using t2.medium under Amazon. Ahh well,. I like seeing the nginx worker/php-fpm pool appear in HTOP Edit. Only using PHP as that's currently the back end language I know how to work with and what the stack uses but could see benefits using Go or something.

ge96 9y ago

Interesting the right/left preference. Not sure if that's related to right/left handed or side preference I don't know. Like you read a book from left to right (sorry probably an arbitrary thought). I too thought about the vertical oriented monitor is it good? You see more lines. I like the minmap for VSCode if you happen to use that. To see a code pattern/structure at a glance.

lfowles 9y ago
I had dual monitors at the office and at home. For me it really depended on where my chair was. I have a slight bias toward the left monitor at home, so my primary activity goes there. At work, my chair was slightly biased towards the right monitor so I put primary activities there. (I also experimented with vertical monitor at work, but with the provided monitors the viewing angle was too awful. I bet it would be awesome with the right screens though.)
- ge96 9y ago
  Haha damn chairs I have this L-shaped desk and I feel cramped on the right side. Ahh man did a data entry job, god I wanted to eat a bullet. Found a good keyboard though. A wired Microsoft 600 or something they're cheap but flat unlike those tall keys on older keyboards.
CorvusCrypto 9y ago
vertical monitor is a blessing and a curse at times. For just coding, it's great because I have more lines to reference at once. However when I show the directory tree for my projects my width is small and sometimes hard to deal with. Same problem with having a mini-map sadly. I actually am right handed and read left-to-right. My dominant screen is my left screen and it used to be my editor screen, but I switched my code to the right because nowadays more of my work is server monitoring, communication, and review of code. The wider screen space is nice for this.
- ge96 9y ago
  Yeah I do wish min-map only expanded when you hovered over that area, too eager to post issues/requests though on their GitHub. What do you use for server monitoring? Do you have fail overs... I recently implemented server side encryption and was running into memory exhaustion problems, upped cores/ram. Was surprised to read it's bad or less performant when your computer starts using swap. Man $34/mo seems expensive for hosting using t2.medium under Amazon. Ahh well,. I like seeing the nginx worker/php-fpm pool appear in HTOP Edit. Only using PHP as that's currently the back end language I know how to work with and what the stack uses but could see benefits using Go or something.