Jeff AtwoodInterview
Developer, co-founder of Stack Overflow
Adapted from Jeff Atwood's interview on Uses This, published 20 July 2017. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I'm Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and long time blogger at codinghorror.com.
I can launch a real Bash shell with a real Linux right in Windows, with (almost) no virtualization overhead.
For development I use Visual Studio Code, which is built using browser technology and works everywhere, and has become remarkably great in the last year as they keep iterating on it.
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Since 2013 I've been working on Discourse, an open source discussion platform.
I just ordered the new Surface Pro, too, though you definitely need to go with the i5 or i7 to have a meaningful performance difference between this and the latest iOS hardware.
I apologize for the lack of Android here, because although the OS has improved dramatically in the last 2 years, I've really struggled to find hardware I like that runs Android.