The Franchise Wing
Westeros on the shelf, X-Men on the monitor riser.
Every desk declares an allegiance eventually — the only question is whether it does it deliberately. This wing stocks the declarations: vinyl figures from the franchises that survived their finales, posters from the arcade era, a fully motorized foam-dart deterrent for whoever keeps taking your good pens, and a GaN charger cosplaying as a 1984 Macintosh. Yes, it also debugs. They all do.
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The Figure Cabinet
Funkos, virtual pets and plushes — desk companions with lore.
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The Armory
Foam-dart blasters for the office cold war. Motorized options for the technically ambitious.
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Museum Wing
Arcade-era posters and patent prints for the wall behind you.
Retro Hardware, Modern Watts
Chargers and stands shaped like the machines that started all this.
Reading for the rabbit hole
- Build a Desk-Mounted, AI Aim-Assisted Foam Dart Turret
A webcam, a pan-tilt servo bracket, OpenCV face tracking, and a motorized Nerf blaster make a weekend project that defends your desk — or starts an office war.
- How to Recreate a 90s Home Office That Still Ships Modern Code
A 90s room aesthetic needs four things: warm indirect light, audible texture, period shapes with modern function underneath, and props that do something.
- Work-From-Home Gifts for a New Remote Job
A footrest, a monitor lamp and a decent microphone solve the problems a new remote worker hits in week one. Here's what to buy and what to skip.
- White Elephant Gifts for Tech Coworkers That Get Stolen First
The gifts that get fought over are useful enough to keep and weird enough to remember. Here's what survives the round.
- Gifts for Programmers Under $25 That Don't Feel Cheap
The right gift isn't about the price. It's about choosing something that joins a daily workflow, not a drawer full of branded swag.
- Gifts for the Mechanical Keyboard Person in Your Life
Never buy them a keyboard. Buy keycaps, a desk mat, or a switch sampler instead — the things they want but would not buy themselves.
Questions people ask
- Do figures on a desk read as unprofessional on camera?
- One or two well-placed figures read as personality; a wall of boxes reads as a stockroom. Keep the shelf line behind you curated — three items per shelf, franchise mixing allowed — and the camera treats it as set dressing.
- Is a motorized foam blaster actually desk-appropriate?
- It is the office deterrent with the longest tradition, and the motorized ones are also a genuinely good robotics platform — a pan-tilt mount, a webcam and some OpenCV turn one into a weekend auto-aim project. Fire it at coworkers only where treaties permit.
- What is the Macintosh-shaped charger actually charging?
- Anything USB-C — they are ordinary GaN chargers in a 1984 costume, most with a little power-draw display where the screen would be. The nostalgia is free; the watts are real.
Other departments
- The '90s RewindRebuild the room you did your first save game in.
- The Duck PondDebugging partners. Some wear hats. Some are Funkos.
- The Desk JunglePhotosynthesis for people who read stack traces.
- The Perpetual Motion Dept.Physics you can fidget with on a call.
- The Keycap GalleryYour keyboard, but it finally looks like you.
- The Paper DivisionVersion control for thoughts: cross it out, keep the history.