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collin

@collin@ruby.social

I coined the term “Mac Assed Mac App”.

A software developer from Portland Oregon. I’ve been writing iOS and Mac apps since 2008 and Ruby since 2021.

📱 #Swift (iOS and Mac).
🚂 #Ruby (and Rails)

Cohost of the #RooftopRuby podcast. Friend of DeSoto.

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postmodern, to random
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Occasionally the contrarian DHH gets it right. He finally came to the logical conclusion of just using Linux as a development environment. A bit annoyed he didn't call out macOS for all of the ridiculous hoops you have to jump through to setup a dev env (XCode, iTerm2, homebrew, case insensitive file-systems, etc), where as every Linux distro provides everything via the built-in package manager.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/linux-as-the-new-developer-default-at-37signals-ef0823b7

collin,
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@postmodern Aren’t you losing the ability to use any of the high quality GUI apps on macOS? Linux desktop software does not spark joy. That’s the trade off for me.

collin,
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@postmodern no, I mean like BBEdit, or Acorn, or XScope, or Tower. Those are just development related apps off the top of my mind. If I extend it to apps I use for music, then it’s a lot more.

collin,
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@willhbr @postmodern I could probably handle it for just web dev (I also do iOS and Mac), but it would be a trade off. For everything, there’s categories of things I would not be able to do on Linux or at least not without completing changing how I do them.

collin,
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@wood @postmodern doing music and recording on Windows would work, even if I wasn’t happy about it and had to use some different tools, but on Linux I don’t see how it would even be possible without completely changing how I do it in service of using Linux, and even then I’d be giving a lot up.

collin, to random
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It’s not perfect, and there are things I would change, but Reminders has become a pretty good app. The sections and column view are really neat. Love that.

It would only take a couple of changes to be powerful enough to go toe to toe with something like OmniFocus, and for me to use it for everything.

collin, to random
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Is Lord Of The Rings the last popular movie trilogy that really nailed it?

I would qualify a trilogy as being three movies which were conceived as being three movies and are telling one story split up across three movies.

By that definition, I can only think of the original Star Wars trilogy and LOTR where all three movies are good and they stick the landing.

collin,
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@davetron5000 Totally. I like them, I just don’t think they fit my (arbitrary) personal classifications. I can totally see someone classifying them differently though.

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