Operating Systems

I came across an article today that discussed efforts being made to create an open-source technology to make UI development in Swift on Windows possible.

Some programmers stick to a single operating system or technology stack, but I like to experiment and try new things out. That means, however, that I often jump back and forth between platforms: particularly between Windows and Mac.

An operating system that was released 25 years ago and required an entire computer to run can now instead be run in a browser window with an interpreted language.

I don’t like clutter. In fact, I am very picky about what I install on my computer which is one reason I love virtual machines to experiment with new technologies.

Several years ago, I bought an old, colorful iMac G3 running Mac OS 9. It runs my old software wonderfully, but an emulated version of Mac OS 9 on my modern MacBook Pro is just so much more convenient.

While adding a linter to an old project, I wrote the following bash script to convert 4-space indentations to 2-space indentations. This example recursively looks for *.js files starting at the script’s location. Of course, it can be used for any type of file though by simply changing the extension.

I have written before about having to work in Windows 7 with Docker which only runs natively on Linux, macOS or Windows 10.

For the past couple of days, I’ve been working on a small project for OS X written in Swift where it was necessary to import an image and scale it down proportionately based on a given width and height.

Today I’m happy to announce the first new release of ScratchPad in four years.