~/Downloads/source/<version control system>/<project> for checked out sources of tools etc. ~/Downloads/programs for OS images, large binary blobs etc. ~/Deve

~/Downloads/source/<version control system>/<project> for checked out sources of tools etc. ~/Downloads/programs for OS images, large binary blobs etc. ~/Development/<technology>/<project name> for development projects ~/Documents/<project name/company name> for documents relating to specific projects or customers ~/Operations/<server> for various files related to servers and infrastructure (manual backups etc.) /dev/shm as a dumping ground for temporary files that I would like to get rid of with a reboot