After about three weeks traveling technologically marooned on macOS island, I made a decision to try a new operating system – Pop!_OS. Yes, I’ve been using Ubuntu Gnome for the majority of my home office computing but due to some odd proprietary VPN requirements that...
In a word - "focus." There are a lot of cool technologies available to developers to today and the truth is that, I've been spending a lot of time chasing a lot of different albeit very interesting technologies and trying to figure out what makes sense for myself and...
Many commentators myself included have been making some hay out of the trend of developers and other pros moving away from Apple’s macOS in favor of various (usually Ubuntu) distributions of Linux. Vendors like Dell and System76 have seen gains in the professional...
Coder Radio listeners will know that I have been agonizing over replacing my three-old MacBook Pro and with the recent Apple announcement of their new MacBook, I ended up ordering a System 76 Lemur laptop with Ubuntu 16.10 Linux pre-installed. If you’re interested in...
Apple is widely believed to be releasing new Macs next week and I am celebrating this long overdue update to the MacBook Pro by replacing my existing MacBook Pro with a Linux laptop from System 76. This isn't one of those "Apple sucks posts" but I did want to go over...
My adventure in the world of Linux continues and I’ve come to the point where I have purchased a Dell XPS 13 non touch and went ahead and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it. It’s important to note that I did not spring for the Dell Developer Edition, since there was a sale...
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Hi! I’m Mike! I’m a software engineer who codes at The Mad Botter INC. You might know me from Coder Radio or The Mike Dominick Show. Drop me a line if you’re interested in having some custom mobile or web development done.
