HACKER Q&A
📣 noduerme

If you code on a beach or at a bar, what do you use?


I frequently go out to code. And it almost always involves bringing a laptop. I think since reading "The Diamond Age" I've longed for some perfect, rollable, e-ink way to just jot down code with a pen on a table. Maybe even before that.

I mainly use VSCode these days. I've experimented with tablets, rollable keyboards, even just using my phone... but it's always a pain. I can't really picture wearing a headset or something. I'm trying to look less like I'm coding and more like I'm just writing. Does anyone have a brilliant hack for doing this currently?

  👤 giorgioz Accepted Answer ✓
Cool question! I was a digital nomad working a B2B SaaS for ~5years. I worked from cafes but they were always indoor. The bullshit of photos of people with a laptop nearby the beach/outdoor is that brighr light makes it impossible to read LED screens. I always hoped at some point e-ink screen would fix that. I saw some laptops with e-ink screens online. Never tried one. Googling "laptop with e-ink display" returns a lot of results.