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

by throwaway1194 on 8/13/24, 4:06 AM with 5 comments

• by BigParm on 8/13/24, 6:21 AM

  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.

• by eternityforest on 8/13/24, 4:46 AM

  I made my first bash alias a few weeks ago after using Linux for years.

  It's not often I find a task where I want to automate it on the CLI but when I do it's a lot of fun.

• by gregjor on 8/13/24, 5:40 AM

  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.

• by nsonha on 8/13/24, 9:40 AM

  Maybe that's how you stay productive? Honestly the "DHH falling in love with tinkering" saga on twitter starts to look cringe