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This, plus the multiple-cursors package, can save entire minutes off tedious file-renaming operations. (That may not sound like a lot but trust me every second counts when you're j…

I can't help but wonder if the Fence comments had anything to do with my blog post last night. Kind of like watching social osmosis in action :D

On the flip side, as someone who's tried to change stacks or IDEs or other software a few times, there's something to be said for already having momentum using existing solutions. …

That's my same experience with programming. That's kind of what I was getting at in this article actually: that you get better by doing your best and making mistakes. Nothing beats…

Yeah not saying Swift is simple. But its goal was originally (and may still be) to be Objective-C without the C.

Thus Swift.

Good point. You're right that passion helped me to gain the experience I have now. But at this point I can't lean on that same passion, I had to find another motivation. I wonder h…

Meh, joke sites like this aren't nearly as prominent as sites for apps, I'd really like a .app TLD instead. That said, the distinction between app and service is blurring a lot, so…

More details at https://reproducible-builds.org/ which is linked to at the bottom of OP's page.

You're right. I actually only had one or two people in mind when I wrote that comment, and I didn't even realize it until you pointed it out. Thanks.

In the same way, I use VS Code mostly now (for node stuff) but I still load up Emacs and use Magit whenever I need to do serious version control, meaning basically anything more th…

In my experience having switched from using one IDE to another a few times, the difficulty for me is usually that both IDEs do 90% of what I need perfectly (after a few days of twe…

I'm only 31 and found out the hard way that 90% of the way successful people got to where they are is through charisma, lying, and cheating others.

I'm not that optimistic. In my experience, nightmare-level code will be written by the person who wrote it no matter what language they use. Rust doesn't look all that cleaner than…

I'm sure there's got to be a way of getting ahead that doesn't involve lying, cheating, or stealing, from anyone, no matter how much they deserve it.

Can confirm. I worked a pretty decent software job with lower pay than others make for the same job for the past 5 years. Could barely afford insurance for my wife and I. We actual…

It may not necessarily be in active development, but it's a project I'm very proud of. It's a legitimate text editor built from the ground-up in Objective-C including its own parse…