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jacobherrington

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jacobherrington··on Fish shell 3.0
I loved Fish while I used it. I recently stopped using it because I'm writing a lot of documentation. I prefer to do thing using bash or zsh now so I can be sure it will work for others.
jacobherrington··on JIRA is an antipattern
I've literally always felt that Scrum and the Agile Manifesto were at odds due to Scrum's focus on process. I always have trouble communicating this though.
jacobherrington··on State of web browsers in 2018
I don't prefer one over the other. They both serve my purposes well enough. Generally, I've found that people who don't like Firefox's dev tools just haven't used them much.
jacobherrington··on State of web browsers in 2018
I'm a developer and a Firefox user. I'm always a little sad when I pair with another developer, and they ask why I'm not using Chrome.

Mozilla is one of the few tech companies that care about the well-being of its users. In my opinion that is very special.

jacobherrington··on Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
Give Spacemacs a shot. Here is why it's an easier transition than VS Code to vanilla emacs or Vim:

- It's already 99% configured

- The keyboard shortcuts are mnemonic

- There is a UI display of all the shortcuts within one keystroke at any given time

- You can still function with your mouse -- if you need to

jacobherrington··on Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
I did not have any experience with emacs and only the most basic knowledge of Vim. I had some guidance from my company's CTO though.
jacobherrington··on Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
About four months ago I moved from VS Code to Spacemacs and it has been an extremely rewarding experience. Anyone who is afraid of Emacs or Vim should give it a try. I've heard good things about Doom and Prelude as well.