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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I find it works really well for brainstorming and “rubber-ducking” when I’m thinking about approaches to something. Things I’d normally do in a conversation with a coworker when I really am looking more for a listener than for actual feedback.

    I can also usually get useful code out of it that would otherwise be tedious or fiddly to write myself. Things like “take this big enum and write a function that converts the members to human-friendly strings.”



  • I’m a software developer with about twenty years in the field, spending my first half of that working in a Unix environment. I have tried so hard to make Linux my home desktop solution. I’ve come back to it every five years or so, hoping it’s finally figured out the UI/UX thing.

    Things I like:

    • no comercial motivation
    • intrinsically programmer-oriented
    • free with available sources, as deep as I care to dig

    Things I don’t like:

    • High barrier to entry (which distro?)
    • Poor support for newer hardware (not a fault of Linux but a reality)
    • Too much competition in very basic facilities like package managers and desktop environments
    • Well-intentioned but largely unhelpful community support due to the above points

    I’m back using Linux again (Fedora) because at the moment I’m doing a lot of embedded and SoC work, and again I love the dev experience. But so far it seems like not much has changed wrt how fiddly daily driving can be. I can’t stand W11 for a lot of reasons, but I’m constantly tempted to try my luck with WSL as a better compromise.