About The Remote Engineer
The Remote Engineer is about doing serious technical work from places that are not always set up for serious technical work.
Remote work can be wonderful. It can also be a mess of weak Wi-Fi, awkward desk heights, bad lighting, time zone math, dead batteries, loud neighbors, and gear that seemed fine until you had to live out of a backpack for a week.
This site is for software engineers, technical leaders, and remote tech workers who want the practical version: better setups, better travel planning, better gear decisions, and fewer self-inflicted problems.
Who Writes This
The Remote Engineer is written by Scott Hebert, a software engineering leader whose career started in the early 1990s. His work has spanned software engineering, developer productivity, infrastructure, remote work, leadership, and engineering culture.
That background matters because remote work is not just lifestyle decoration. For engineers, the setup has to support code reviews, incident calls, design docs, debugging sessions, long stretches of focus, and all the ordinary work that still has to happen when you are away from your normal desk.
What You Will Find Here
Most articles fall into a few practical buckets:
- remote work setups
- travel gear for software engineers
- internet, power, and backup planning
- working trips and digital nomad logistics
- productivity routines that hold up outside a home office
- career and money decisions for remote technical workers
The goal is not to make remote work look effortless. The goal is to make the tradeoffs visible enough that you can make better decisions before your next trip, purchase, or workday.
Product Recommendations
Some articles include product recommendations, ads, affiliate links, or links to third-party services. When that happens, the recommendation should earn its spot. Good gear solves a real problem. Bad gear creates one more thing to babysit.
The site generally favors practical, durable, engineer-friendly choices over the cheapest possible option. If an article includes affiliate links, The Remote Engineer may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
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