In some cities they are, and it’s a beautiful thing. An example is Canberra, Australia.

It’s such a cool editor, but after decades of Vim motor memory I just can’t seem to wrap my head around the cursor / selection changes. I really wish there was an option to just make selection work like Vim.

Better than an ORM is to use a query builder. You get the expressiveness of SQL with the safety and convenience of an ORM.

Most developers that use ORMs create poorly performing monstrosities, and most developers who write raw SQL create brittle, unsafe and unmaintainable software. There is a happy medium here.

Swift only treats Apple OSes as first class citizens - even though technically you can use it on other platforms it’s a painful and limited experience.

This is only in the US I assume? The article isn’t very up front about it.

Considering that the main fix for stuttering has been to turn down texture quality, this makes me hopeful that performance will improve a bit.

I’m having a blast with tornado Druid.

I played Sorc in first beta, Rogue in second, Necro in preseason and Druid for S1 and to be honest I’ve had a lot of fun with all of them. I’m looking forward to playing Barb in S2.

I remember my time doing Ruby was really informative about testing and languages in general.

The Ruby community was really great at doing automated testing and it’s actually where I really cut my teeth on testing, but if you go back and look at the tests you’ll find heaps of them are testing and checking types for functions. It almost felt like people were building static typing using automated tests.

Some people bang on about static typing getting in the way of agility, but the reality is that you either end up spending the time creating extra tests, or you end up cutting corners and creating unreliable software which you’ll spend a lot of time troubleshooting down the road. You end up paying a big price to save a marginal amount of time at the start of a project.