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

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