Linux

Most of my life I used Windows for gaming, and Linux for development. When I started my first full time job in 2007, they gave me a Windows desktop for Java dev, and I hated it… In 2010 they added a BYOC policy and two devs I worked with convinced me to buy my first ever Mac, and since then, that’s what I’ve been using. Mainly because I dialed in my perfect setup early, and migrating an old Mac to a new Mac is super easy, and once I got my iPad and eventually settled on iPhone (after jumping between that and Android every 2 years for a while), I was locked into the ecosystem, and no matter how much it gets enshittified, I just haven’t been able to migrate away (and I’ve tried, quite a few times). ...

Just a quick one here, but I used this a lot today and realised after chatting to some other devs that a lot of people don’t know about this trick. That trick is: History Expansion Let’s say you are SSH’d (or SSM’d on AWS if you want to be more secure) onto a Linux box and you want check the status of a service with systemctl status cassandra.service You see that the service is exited for some reason, and you want to restart it after determining that’s all that is needed. ...