DHH: Cant believe I kept myself from Linux, Neovim, and mech keyboards this long (twitter.com)

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.

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.

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