I’ve been using my macbook with Karabiner for Windows development for a while. And it was perfect. Util someday I had to start using windows laptop instead of my macbook. What a frustration it was to lose the muscle memory gained over the years of using (slightly modified) macOS layout. My first and obvious thought was to use amazing AutoHotkey to remap layout on windows machine. Unfortunately, it was a corporate laptop and I could not use such third-party software. Read more

The last year was a good year for me. At least in terms of the amount of content I consumed. It all started when I suddenly realized that I was spending too much time browsing Twitter and reading some rants of some people I do not even know in person. I already knew about the built-in feature of iOS called Screen Time. Although, I never thought about actually using it as I did not see it as an issue. Read more

I am a software engineer, and throughout my career, I had quite limited interaction with proper QA folks, so most of the time I had to write all the tests by myself. I started doing it on my first job, even though it was not endorsed by my team lead back then. But they paid me money for code that works, and writing tests is the best way to make sure it works as expected. Read more

Recently I had to start using windows for development, and since I was wanna keep using my beloved MacBook, which I used for many years, I had to choose which option will work for me best. There were 3 options to choose from: 1. Use windows workstation via RDP. This may sound costly, but I have a windows machine to spare. 2. Create a Windows VM via Parallels (as this is still the best way to run Windows on Mac). Read more