For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support, and everyone else. That mono culture had some clear advantages, like being able to run Kandji and macOS-specific setup scripts. But it certainly also had its disadvantages, like dealing with Apple's awful reliability years, and being cut o...

dhh is the creator of Ruby on Rails. He has extensively used Mac for decades. A few months ago, as far as I remember, he mentioned something like switching to Windows and WSL.

    • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      I hated Rails so much. It kept changing tech stack for every minor version patch. Last I used it, I remember Propshaft was supposed to be the new default.

    • slacktoid@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Back in my day i just used rivets we didnt need these new fangled screws and their drivers.

      • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Yes I get what your saying, but in this analogy the screws are destroying the planet, and also hallucinate enough to be completely untrustworthy as fastenings.

        • slacktoid@lemmy.ml
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          1 month ago

          I agree. The issue is people are not comparing this to a manual lookup. they are comparing it to another person who is just as likely to hallucinate/misremember things.