Virtual backgrounds for remote Software Developers
Tags: humor, remote
Published: 2020-03-16 12:30:15

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As a lot of developers are going to be forced to work remotely these days, they are going to need an appropriate background for all those enjoyable remote meetings.

You can find the full background images without my ugly face at the bottom of this post.

## Client requirement gathering 

Use this one with your most important clients:

![kids](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/kids-zoom.jpg "kids zoom background")

A classic for any remote worker. In case you do not understand it, watch the [full video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY).

Original idea by [Anthony Chu](https://twitter.com/nthonyChu).

## All-hands meeting

When the whole company must be present for those long long meetings:

![lotr-humans](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/lotr-humans-zoom.jpg "lotr-humans zoom background")

Make sure that one of you teammates brings the elves along:

![lotr-elves](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/lotr-elves-zoom.jpg "lotr-elves zoom background")

## Virtual coffee

You no longer have spontaneous water cooler conversations, but that means that you can come prepared and make your team jealous: 

![holidays](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/holidays-zoom.jpg "holidays zoom background")

## Architecture meeting

Here you have two good options. 

First one if you are **THE** **A**rchitect of your team:

![architect](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/architect-zoom.jpg "architect zoom background")

The second option is if you want to bring some subliminal message to the architecture discussion:

![kafka](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/kafka-zoom.jpg "kafka zoom background")

## Remote pair programming time

Time to do some actual work now, trying to get in flow so that [you feel like Neo when we realizes he is the chosen one](https://danlebrero.com/2018/11/26/repl-driven-development-immediate-feedback-for-you-backend/):

![matrix](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/matrix-zoom.jpg "Matrix zoom background")

## Talking with QA

And squashing some bugs:

![bugs](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/bugs-zoom.jpg "bugs zoom background")

## Deploying to production

Useful also for any outage:

![fire](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/fire-zoom.jpg "fire zoom background")

Credits [KC Green](https://kcgreendotcom.com/index.html) for his awesome comics.

## Fixing production

For those very special occasions when you just want to say "I told you so" to all your teammates:

![sunset](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/sunset-sunrays-zoom.jpg "sunset zoom background")

You can also use it when giving some lecture or developer learning session.

## Brown bag sessions

When it is one of your teammates giving a lecture:

![preaching](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/preaching-zoom.jpg "preaching zoom background")

## Friday afternoon

Escaping from the Evil Empire (aka your boss).

![starwars](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/starwars-zoom.jpg "starwars zoom background")

## Images 

Backgrounds work for me in [Zoom](https://zoom.us) with a 16:9 camera.

| Image | Clean background        | Image | Clean background        |
| -------------    |:-------------:| -------------    |:-------------:| 
|<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/kids-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/kids.png) |<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/lotr-humans-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/lort-humans.png) |
|<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/lotr-elves-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/lort-elves.png) |<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/holidays-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/holidays.jpg) |
|<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/architect-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/architect.png) |<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/kafka-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/kafka.png) |
|<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/matrix-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/matrix.png) |<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/bugs-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/bugs.png) |
|<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/fire-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/fire.jpg) |<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/sunset-sunrays-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/sunset-sunrays.jpg) |
|<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/preaching-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/preaching.jpg) |<img src="https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/starwars-zoom.jpg" width="100"> | [here](https://danlebrero.com/images/blog/zoom/starwars.jpg) |

Share some if you have!