Coming from languages like Swift and Objective-C, using a proper debugger where I don’t have to edit my code to log something or break, is pretty critical for tracking down issues quickly. So — I thought — we’re using puma-dev to run our Rails app during development, that’s a common setup, and so there must […]
I don’t code much in Objective-C these days1 but one thing I miss about it compared to Swift is how nil works. To be fair to Swift, the concept of “nothing” in Objective-C is kind of a mess, since there’s four different versions of it compared to two in Swift. nil
Of the productivity things I’ve tried in the last decade or more, keeping something by my keyboard to write on has been an unqualified win. I’ve used a yellow legal pad or notebook in the past, but the thing that works best has been a stack of index cards and a box to toss them […]