*laughs in 13" MacBook Air*

Seriously, I love plunking down in a coffee shop and writing code on my tiny laptop.

The main fallacy is in the idea that having more real estate means absorbing more data. The brain can only focus on 1 thing well at a time. We can’t focus on more than a few lines of code at a time. We break down functions when they get more than 20 lines long or so.

I’d argue that having everything available on-screen at once can actually be more distracting than Alt-Tabbing when you need to switch contexts. When the only thing you see is what you’re working on, the mind focuses pretty sharply on that.

And you can pick up your work environment and code wherever it’s comfortable at the moment.