Although I’m a Linux user, I also recently bought a Mac Air M1, and I wanted to use Docker (a big part of my TDD book) to ensure that my projects based on Docker work on m1 as well. I then went to the Docker website for macOSÂ and downloaded the version for the Apple m1 […]
I want to share some benchmarks for building an Eclipse project with Maven/Tycho. I built the project on Linux, Windows, and macOS (in particular, on my Mac Air M1 2020). I stressed that the macOS environment is an M1, the new Arm-based chip from Apple, which is said to be quite efficient and performant. However, […]
Maybe this is well-known to macOS users, but it wasn’t clear to me as a Linux user. As a Linux user, I’m used to using Alt+Tab to switch between different windows. But I also use the shortcut to switch between different windows of the same application. In Gnome, the shortcut is Alt+<the key above Tab>, […]
For ages, I’ve been using the excellent Unison file synchronizer to synchronize my directories across several Linux machines, using the SSH protocol. I love it! 🙂 Unison gives you complete control over the synchronization, and, most of all, it’s a two-way synchronizer. Quoting from its home page: Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, […]