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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It just works. I spent years with Eclipse (but quite some time ago now), and it was always a pain getting particular things to work properly. The last time I messed with it was doing research for an article I was writing. I was try to get Gradle support enabled. I wasn’t able to do it, but I admit I gave up pretty quickly because I don’t have the patience for messing with tools that don’t work any more.

    In truth, I really liked the Open aspect of Eclipse and I wish it work better than Intellij. Maybe it does now - I don’t know. For Java Intellij is awesome, and does everything you could ever dream for. For Kotlin - well Kotlin is an Intellij product and the support for it is awesome.



  • I use Markdown with Jekyll because it integrates nicely with GitHub Pages and I can run it locally for authoring. There’s tons of support for it, as far as I can tell. Jekyll uses Liquid for templating, and it seems pretty good. For layout, I use Minimal Mistakes which has a really nice feel and it’s comparatively easy to customize. Once I was through all the layout configuration stuff, it’s really just a matter of writing articles and pushing them up to GitHub - rarely fiddle with anything technical these days.



  • I used Atom for markdown editing for my blog and I loved it. After the death of Atom I felt forced to switch over to VS Code and I hate it.

    Hate, Hate. Hate.

    I can’t tell you why, I just hate it.

    I found Pulsar last week and my blood pressure is down where it belongs now.

    For programming in Java & Kotlin I use Intellij Idea CE. I cannot image why anyone would bother with VS Code for this purpose either.