This post means more than one thing to me.

First, it’s the first real post I’m publishing on a blog that I honestly don’t even know if it will continue the way it is now or not.

Second, it’s about growth, moving from one state to another, from something good to something better. And I couldn’t think of a better example of that, especially in this period of my life, than upgrading my desk.

Here, I’ll talk about the new desk in terms of:

  • Type
  • Dimensions
  • Details

And why this desk is the right one for me, and why I chose it the way I did.

Before I talk about the new desk, I need to go back and briefly talk about the old one, just to give it the credit it deserves, and as a way of honoring it and not forgetting what it was and what it meant to me.

At the very beginning, my journey was just about studying, browsing, and playing around here and there in different fields. At the end of the day, I’m in this field because I love it. And when I love something, I don’t like turning it into pressure, I keep it within the frame of doing it for fun.

Back then, I didn’t have a laptop, no desk, nothing. So I borrowed a laptop from my uncle, used an old table we already had at home, and got a mouse from a friend (shoutout to Mahmoud El-Saeed). I made a small setup, just enough, and started studying and crafting on it.

That part has its own story, which you can read here: → My Early Setup Story

During that time, I was crafting websites, building some for free, some for money, and in the end, I was just having fun.

Then, by coincidence, after some time, not planned, not even through serious effort, I found a job.

Yeah, not in programming directly, and not exactly what I was aiming for yet. But it was a step. And some steps, you just have to accept and deal with wisely, they’re part of the process whether you like it or not.

When I got the online job in marketing, I didn’t even have internet in the apartment I was staying in. The connection I was borrowing from the place next door wasn’t stable, so I had to move my laptop, mouse, and keyboard (which also has its own story you can read here → The Old Room Story to another place.

At that time, I spent a period studying and working on an ironing table.

My First Laptop

That phase was actually beautiful.

My interest in low-level systems grew a lot. I started studying computer graphics and built this project: → Computer Graphics Project

I stayed in that phase for a while until, thankfully, I was finally able to get my own laptop.

My First Laptop

That moment was a huge shift for me, not just practically, but mentally and emotionally as well. It was something I had always dreamed of, even though it felt far away at times. But deep down, I always believed that everything comes at the right time.

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4050 (6GB)
  • RAM: 16GB
  • Storage: SSD (fast enough to make everything feel instant)
  • System: Arch Linux (minimal setup, dwm, X11)

This laptop wasn’t just an upgrade in performance.

It was an upgrade in how I think, how I work, and how seriously I take what I’m doing.

Getting the laptop encouraged both me and my family to move faster with solving the internet problem. We finally set up a stable connection in the other apartment, and I moved back there.

My father also had a desk in his workshop that was way better than what I had before, so I started using it.

And that’s when things started to feel different.

That’s when the story of the old desk really begins.

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This was the first real setup I ever had, the first time I sat down and felt like I actually had something I always wanted.

I’m someone with simple dreams, but at the same time, they’re not easy to reach. I don’t want much, but what I want takes time and effort. And that’s what made this whole thing meaningful.

That setup went through a lot with me, moving it from place to place, constantly trying to find the perfect angle, the perfect layout, the perfect feel.

I was obsessed with making it mine.

It wasn’t luxury. It wasn’t aesthetics for the sake of aesthetics. It was a dream, and once it became real, I wanted to see it in the best possible way.

That desk pushed me to study more, explore more, and go deeper.

My interest in low-level systems kept growing. I started buying books, reading more, and developing this almost irrational curiosity to understand everything.

Even my use of Linux changed, it wasn’t just usage anymore. I started studying it academically, understanding its philosophy, experimenting more, and getting attached to it on a deeper level.

That desk wasn’t just a phase of learning new things.

It was a phase where I was discovering myself.

And then…

On 11/4/2026

My New Desk

The new desk.

  • Type: Custom L-shaped desk
  • Material: Wood finish (dark brown)

  • Dimensions:

    • Main side: ~160 cm
    • Return side: ~120 cm
    • Depth: ~60 cm
    • Height: standard desk height (~75 cm)

The L-shape wasn’t just for looks.

It gives me space to separate things: one side for the main work, the other for experiments, writing, or just thinking.

It’s simple.

But it’s exactly what I needed.

This desk, the reason behind writing all of this, wasn’t just something I needed and went to buy.

It was a living example of something I keep learning again and again:

That delay doesn’t mean denial. That everything truly comes at its right time.

This desk was something I had wanted for four months before it finally happened. It went through phases of asking, trying, insisting, but nothing changed at the time.

And that reminded me of the laptop phase.

It was the same feeling.

But this time, I got distracted. I got comfortable. I forgot.

So this desk came as a reminder:

Things don’t stay easy. Life doesn’t stay at its peak.

And maybe that’s the lesson.

So, الحمد لله, always and forever.