DHH: Cant believe I kept myself from Linux, Neovim, and mech keyboards this long
twitter.comI 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.
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.
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.
Maybe that's how you stay productive? Honestly the "DHH falling in love with tinkering" saga on twitter starts to look cringe