Who are you, and what do you do? What do you like to do outside of work?

My name is Guilherme Forton Viotti, but you can call me ‘Guil’ :) I am a software developer, project manager, and sustainability advocate from Brazil who has lived in the UK since 2020. I like to build things digitally using Django as a main web framework and tangible, interesting things using my trusted 3D printer and Arduino/Raspberry Pi components and sensors.

I also play drums and am a photographer (I worked in both areas before). For fun, I enjoy climbing and playing PS5.

What hardware do you use?

I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max and I use XREAL glasses to extend it to three virtual monitors. The Moonlander is attached to both arms of my office chair (I 3D-printed some tripod sockets I found online to see if it would work, and when I confirmed it would be useful, I bought the tripod kit from ZSA website).

Recently I placed an Apple Touchpad on the right side of my right hand so I have quick access to scrolling and clicking, but this is a work in progress at the moment.

And what software?

Everything runs on macOS. For coding, I use PyCharm.

What’s your keyboard setup like? Do you use a custom layout or custom keycaps?

I customized my layout in a way that is not far from a regular keyboard layout, with a version for Mac and one for Windows (a slight change in mouse sensitivity). That way I can easily go back and forth between any computer I need to jump on and my Moonlander chair setup. I am still trying to optimize some keys at the bottom-pinky sides, but so far the setup is very useful. I completely dropped the mouse and use only the mouse layer of the keyboard.

The keycaps are the ones that came with my Moonlander.

What would be your dream setup?

It would be the current setup with slightly better keymapping (always a work in progress, but slowly as I rely on the setup for work), a small touchpad close to my thumbs for quick navigation perhaps, and a sturdier clamp on the armchair. A kind of hot-swap on the tripod-keyboard connection (maybe something magnetic so I could quickly travel with the keyboard without needing to remove the screws) and a bigger and heavier chair with broader armrests. In a nutshell, something to make Morpheus’s Nebuchadnezzar chairs blush.