Tag: windows


  • Playing with WSL2

    Playing with WSL2

    I’ve been playing with Docker on WSL2, the new Linux integration for Windows, and Microsoft seems to have implemented a game changer for web development.

  • Git hooks on Windows

    Git hooks on Windows

    Git hooks on Windows are easier than you think

  • Surface Book 2 for development

    For quite some time I’ve been considering moving away from the MacBook Pro. For quite some time I had no idea what my next machine was going to be, until I first saw the Surface Book 2. This is my review based on nearly 2 months of full-time use of the Surface Book 2 for…

  • As I don’t have any spare hardware on which I can install Windows, setting up Windows for me meant creating a new Parallels virtual machine on my iMac. On that VM, I installed Windows Server 2008, of which I still had a copy lying around. The easiest way I had heard of to get a server environment…

  • It is no secret to people that know me a bit that, despite the fact that I work solely on OSX and Ubuntu, I have some friends in the Microsoft camp. So far though, I never really felt the need or will to start working with things Windows-related myself.  When Microsoft announced they’d be running…

  • Windows 98 quirks

    My in-laws have a computer still running Windows 98. Basically, the computer can’t really handle anything else. Not a problem, because they just use it for some basic Internet stuff, and to load the pictures they make with their digital camera. Recently they moved their PC to another room. They asked me to reconnect it,…