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DHH: Cant believe I kept myself from Linux, Neovim, and mech keyboards this long

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Re: DHH: Cant believe I kept myself from Linux, Neovim, and mech keyboards this long

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A bittersweet post for the old programmers like me who have heard how we can't learn new things and how our dated skills make for a poor culture fit. I used Unix, vi, and mechanical keyboards forty years ago. Fad and fashion.

I saw DHH present Rails at OSCON in 2004. Many of the follow-up questions asked about which editor he used (it was TextMate) and the coding font. I can almost hear the mechanical keyboards clacking away at neovim installation.

Re: DHH: Cant believe I kept myself from Linux, Neovim, and mech keyboards this long

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post #4

I was a kid in 2004 but it's astonishing to me that this guy developed rails on presumably Windows. By choice. Was Linux bad back then? Nowadays every software tool is linux-x86 first.

dhh was always on MacOS before, so this is just a switch between two Unixes.