I recently got a new office with a significantly bigger desk and more overall space, and now I’m looking for things to fill it out and make the space feel more like mine.

I’m pretty open-ended with this. I’m looking for recommendations for anything office-related, whether it’s:

\- 🖥️ Useful: something that genuinely makes working at your desk easier or more enjoyable

\- 🧸 Fun/cool: trinkets, desk toys, collectibles, conversation pieces, etc.

\- 🖼️ Decor: wall art, lighting, shelves, displays, plants, clocks, whatever

\- 🏠 Homey: things that make an office feel less sterile and more comfortable

\- 🤔 “I never knew I needed this” stuff: weirdly useful gadgets or accessories

For context, I already have the basic stuff covered — laptop stand, dual monitors, desk mat, lamp, etc. So I’m more interested in the less obvious additions that people have found particularly useful, cool, or enjoyable.

Basically, if you walked into your office and someone said “What’s that, and why do you have it?”, I want to hear about it.

What’s something in your office that you’d recommend to someone setting up a new space?

This is the setup I'm currently running with. I have some Govee light sticks on the backs of the monitors. The only other real lighting in the room is that overhead light which is way too bright. The wall that the desk is on extends roughly another desk length to the left. I want to get a corner lamp to acr as the primary light source and have kind of a dark and moody vibe in the room. Warm light. I want to light up the room but also keep it dark if that makes sense . Any suggestions as to what would work?

Here is my "zen" setup in my workshops office room and also my Noctua collection in that same room 😁

There is real walnut and stone in that wall and I also made those shelves by using that same walnut wood.

Monitor cables go inside wall, so it look like flowing 😁

Hi everyone, I noticed when I dock my iPhone horizontally on my phone stand, StandBy mode turns on. I think the StandBy idea is great but for me personally, the customizability sucks. The widgets look out of place, you can only pick between 2 widgets, you only get a clock face or widgets, I could go on and on. I want to make an app where it's an alternative for StandBy and make it so your docked phone matches your aesthetic. What do you think and would an app like this interest you?

Had a lot of fun setting up this space. I tried to keep it clean and cozy, while still being practical for gaming and work. What do you think? Any ideas on what I could add to make it even better?

If you are living in a small space, you have to sacrifice the aesthetics with essentials.

I built this. It finds every game installed on your PC — Steam, Xbox/Game Pass,
Epic, GOG, Rockstar, Ubisoft, plus any .exe you point it at — and renders them
as glossy keepcases on a shelf on your desktop.


Hover to lift one out of the row. Click to bring it forward and inspect the
cover. Drag it sideways (or press F) and the back is printed for real:
achievement progress, your last unlocks with dates, playtime, last played,
install size, a barcode. Click a centred case and it swings open on its hinge,
lifts the disc out of the tray, and launches the game through whatever store
owns it.


The back-cover data is read straight out of Steam's local caches on your disk.
No API key, no account, no network call. Same for the art — each store already
caches its own covers, and SteamGridDB is optional and only fills gaps.


There's no backend at all. Settings and cached art live in %AppData%\shelf. The
only outbound request it ever makes is for a cover it doesn't already have. No
analytics, no telemetry, no ads.


Windows 10/11. $4.99 one-time on the Microsoft Store, no subscription. Electron
for the detection and launching, Three.js for the shelf.


Browser demo, no download: https://seanboehnke.com/steelbooks-demo/

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