bernhardfritz

MacBook-friendly Ubuntu tweaks

I recently decided to switch from macOS BigSur 11.7.10 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS after Apple decided to no longer provide updates for my MacBook Pro 11,1. During this transition I learned about various tweaks to improve user experience for MacBook users.

As a MacBook user you are probably used to keyboard shortcuts involving the ⌘ command key like ⌘ command+C and ⌘ command+V to copy/paste respectively. However, in Ubuntu pressing the ⌘ command key by default will open the Activities Overview which is similar to the Exposé view in macOS which is not what we want. As it turns out, Ubuntu involves the control key for almost all combinations you may be used to that involve the ⌘ command key in macOS. Luckily Ubuntu is quite configurable and we can tailor it to our needs.

Prerequisites

prologic

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

igogrek

I've worked with AngularJS for many years now and still use it in production today. Even though you can't call it ideal, given its historically-formed architecture, nobody would argue that it became quite a milestone not only for evolution of JS frameworks, but for the whole web.

It's 2017 and every new product/project has to choose a framework for development. For a long time I was sure that new Angular 2/4 (just Angular below) will become the main trend for enterprise development for years to come. I wasn't even thinking of working with something else.

Today I refuse to use it in my next project myself.