Programming

A personal reflection on accepting AI's disruption to software engineering, and the new puzzles that emerge once you get past the grief.

I recently answered a [question on Quora](https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-programming-is-not-for-everyone/answer/Kevin-van-Zonneveld): > Is it true that programming is not for everyone? And thought I'd elaborate my take on this here..

As a Vim newbie, I'd like my Vim plugins & configuration to stay in sync between machines at home, office, my servers & a laptop. I found that a (free) Dropbox account works like a charm.

In an attempt to familiarize myself with the unfamiliar, I decided to build a fun side-project in Ruby and Vim. Effectively learning a new language, framework, and editor. Coming from Nano, Quanta, Eclipse PDT, TextMate, Netbeans; I found (Mac/g)Vim is big a step, and first two weeks you should not expect to be productive.

If you want to set up Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Lucid from scratch, there are quite some articles online to choose from. I found most of them involve compiling, only highlight 1 aspect, or are a bit outdated. On top of that, getting it right can be hard as there are a number of issues related to Ruby and Debian/Ubuntu. This is an attempt to put all the sweet info in 1 place.