I have a guilty confession to make: The idea of trying to come up to speed with modern front end web development fills me with inchoate dread.
Javascript, Typescript, React.js, advanced CSS, CORS - all of it just makes my head spin.
There will be a ton of blog posts coming out right about now, gushing about how amazing Pycon US 2025 was. This will be one of them, but I hope to offer something more as well.
If you’re used to developing on *NIX systems, coming to Windows can be a bit of a shock.
My goal in writing this article is to point out some of the pain points and, where I know they exist, some work-arounds.
Over the last few months I’ve seen a ton of confusion swirling around social media about how to help people who are new to Python development and software development in general get up and running on Windows quickly.
[06/08/2021 Update: Added a bit about Windows Terminal. Dunno how I forgot that the first time around!]
As I’ve written about previously and elsewhere, I felt so badly burned by Apple’s laptop hardware design decisions of a few years ago that I’ve rather fallen out of love with that platform for my personal work. The latest hardware is much better, but I feel like the message has been sent and received, so I’m not rushing back any time soon.