I have been using my personal AI assistant for a few weeks and it is working really well, after I figured out which models to deploy, how to exactly words the various tools and forcing at least one tool call for most interactions. There are some smaller annoyances, but overall things are working mostly as expected.
When I am traveling I really enjoy traveling as light as possible. This means either bringing a laptop when I know I got some work to do or my iPad when I want to relax and disconnect. I prefer reading on an iPad over a laptop or a phone and I still have enough screen real estate to write a few emails if needed or SSH into my workstation or a server in case of an emergency.
The reason software engineers do not write blog posts...
...is them working on their blogging software, static site generator and deployment pipelines. And once that is done, it is time to write about all of that and then never publishing another post again. Granted, that joke has been made too many times, but let us be honest… it is not really wrong. I am guilty of that as well, but at least I try to write somewhat regularly.
There is currently a number from Statcounter making the rounds that Linux has surpassed 10% market share in North America. I would not necessarily believe that number – and yet I think there are some really good signs for Linux on the desktop becoming more and more relevant.