Having completed my review of the System 76 and HP Dev One Linux-powered developer laptop last week, I got some request for what my work stack is like on Linux compared to what it was on macOS. Some of these applications I use on both systems but am listing anyway...
Pallet Town: SQLAlchemy Performance I
Readers of this blog and Coder Radio listeners will now that I have fallen for the snake and by that I of course mean Python! Typing that out cracks my little Ruby heart but for reasons that I’ve explained at length on the show The Mad Botter has moved to Python as...
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A macOS / Linux developer takes an adventure in Windows 11.
Why TMB Chose C++ in ’21
I don't normally enjoy writing controversial posts about why new technologies are bad; I LOVE it! So here we go! We're starting a new large-scale first-party project over at The Mad Botter (sorry no details today) that requires a significant level of low-level...
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Soutaro Matsumoto and the Ruby team over at Square have a proposal for typing in Ruby 3. My initial reaction was a befuddled sort of confusion as though I were a dog who woke up with a human's hands. It took several readings for me to understand why Ruby developers...
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