Technology

This post was edited to add my newest addition, a 60% Keychron K12 The Backstory When I was a very young child, my father had a workstation issued to him from Digital Equipment Corporation that had my favorite toy: a keyboard. This wasn’t just any keyboard, it was a great big clicky-clacky keyboard, and if you typed something it didn’t like, it would beep at you. This was easily my favorite sound in the world as a toddler....

Why do I keep getting top spec machines? This bugs me, and I feel bad for complaining about it. In my career, I have generally been issued laptops that I flat out will not use to their maximum capabilities. I work on highly automated SaaS apps. I have worked on this type of an application for years. There are lots of dependencies and running a full stack locally just doesn’t make sense....