Matthew Lang

I’m using an old iPad I inherited as a secondary screen for my MacBook. I’m very impressed with the setup. I can see myself using this setup a lot.

GitHub Copilot is now available on github.com.

My first impressions are good. Summarising pull requests is a significant benefit. Unfortunately, Copilot could not diagnose the problem with a GitHub Actions workflow I was working on. It had issues accessing the correct action being run.

This week, I learned how to build my own reporter for Minitest and rolled my own feature flag manager. I love programming in Ruby!

I’m enjoying using Hyper for my terminal and Zed for my text editor. A good combination and an excellent alternative to using Visual Studio Code.

Is anyone a user of Hyper? I am looking for recommended plugins and themes. The Hyper homepage seems a bit sparse. I was hoping there might be more themes and plugins out there.

I’m ashamed to admit it, but I don’t have enough of my code for others to see. I’m not talking about finished websites and applications for clients. I’m talking about ideas, prototypes, and other stuff—things I have just hacked into or built for fun. I can’t remember adding or updating any projects on my GitHub account for a long time.

Being a web developer means all my work, or at least the bulk is visible on the web. This isn’t always going to be the case, though. Most of the work I do is for the back end of websites—the wiring and plumbing side of it—the parts you don’t see. That’s no excuse, though, for the lack of code I have published.

The web is my playground. I should use it and publish more of my ideas in code form. Writing code and fixing problems is how I earn money. Perhaps showing problems that are being fixed with my code is a better way to market myself.