Tag Archives: WSL

Adventures in Corporate IT Absurdity, SSL Certificate Edition

Posted on February 20, 2026 by David K.

After several years of developing my main Ruby on Rails project on my personal MacBook Pro, (like any sane developer), events have conspired to push me back to using my ossified corporate laptop for development. I didn’t expect to mind … Continue reading →

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Corporate IT “Support”

Posted on May 9, 2024 by David K.

I couldn’t mount network drives on my work laptop, so I opened a ticket. That was FIVE weeks ago. The ticket was closed by the first person after 3 days without even contacting me. I immediately re-opened it, and it … Continue reading →

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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability | Hacker News

Posted on April 15, 2020 by David K.

I am giving up. WSL1 was a great invention but Microsoft gave up on it, either because of the filesystem performance problems or because of the debuggers. It was a very nice dream, pity it didn’t work out. Source: Windows … Continue reading →

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DHH “not yet feeling the awesome” of WSL

Posted on October 30, 2019 by David K.

This has been one of my all-time favorite Twitter threads. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, is trying to “live” in Windows, and set it up to do Rails work. He’s blogging the “experience,” and it’s not going very smoothly. … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it’s fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code – Scott Hanselman

Posted on August 2, 2019 by David K.

I’ve been trying on and off to enjoy Ruby on Rails development on Windows for many years. I was doing Ruby on Windows as long as 13 years ago. There’s been many valiant efforts to make Rails on Windows a … Continue reading →

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