I might be in the minority, but I get more excited about the idea of maintaining/working on some creaky old legacy code base than I do about the idea of starting a new project from scratch.

94 is the oldest relative I’m aware of. It was my great grandfather. Staying active his whole life, a simple diet, and a generally positive outlook seems to have been the key.

Most of my family say I’m a lot like him!

I love doing that…

Great, now reverse it!

It’s where I get my food. And most of my stuff.

Overweight or not, I’ve always preferred mustache-d Scotty

Ah yes, the “Max Power” way…

Hmmm, interesting. I like brew, for sure. And devcontainers worked ok for me when I was working on something by myself.

But as soon as I started working on a side project with a friend, who uses Ubuntu and was not trying to develop inside a container, things got more complicated and I decided to just use brew instead. I’m sure I could have figured it out, but we are both working full time and have families and are just doing this for fun. I didn’t want to hold us up!

Our little project’s back end runs in a docker compose with a Postgres instance. It’s no problem to run it like that for testing.

Maybe a re-read of the documentation for devcontainers would help…

Personally, I have found the developer experience on Bluefin-dx (the only one I’ve tried…) to be…. mixed.

VSCode + Devcontainers, which are the recommended path, are pretty fiddly. I have spent as much time trying to get them to behave themselves as I have actually writing code.

Personally, I’ve resorted to using Homebrew to install dev tools. The CLI tools it installs are sandboxed to the user’s home directory and they have everything.

It’s not containers - I deploy stuff in containers all the time. But, at least right now, the tooling to actually develop inside containers is kind of awkward. Or at least that’s been my experience so far.

I think the ublue project is fantastic and I really like what they are doing. But most of the world of developer tooling just isn’t there yet. Everything you can think of has instructions on how to get it going in Ubuntu in a traditional installation. We just aren’t there yet with things like Devcontainers.

I won’t tell you to “just change jobs”. I know it’s not that simple.

But I will say that I have a job in a line of work I genuinely enjoy, so I look forward to Mondays.

Whoa!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold it right there.

What about Babylon 5?!?

This is too real… 😆

I’ve definitely had the experience of something being broken in Prod… and no one can reproduce it in Dev.

Guess where we are fixing it!?

Yes, though traditional point-and-click GUI apps will also be rendered according to the same rules.

However, a lot of fans of tiling window managers also use things like terminal-based file mangers, have relatively well developed Neovim configs, etc.

So, it’s kind a whole THING that some folks really enjoy.

I can only conclude that someone in marketing at Dell really liked ChatGPT.

Yeah, I vastly prefer HP Pro/Elitebooks and Thinkpads over anything in the Dell business line.

Veronica is awesome and deserves a bigger following, no doubt.

Can I just have a modern Motorola Razr so I can pretend to be Captain Kirk again, please?

I hadn’t seen that one before. That’s amazing!

Software infrastructure engineer here. I cannot relax if something is broken.