Thinking About Things

MacBook Air 2018 Hardware Review • June 02, 2019

A couple of weeks ago my beloved 2015 retina MacBook Pro decided that it did not want to charge the battery anymore because it needed replacing. After having it for approaching 4 years, I decided that, although it was still a great machine, I wanted to take the opportunity to replace it. I considered a new MacBook Pro, but considering that a similarly specced machine to my old one was £750 more than I paid for the original and I wanted to upgrade the RAM and storage I decided to look into other options, and landed on getting a Certified Refurbished 2018 MacBook Air.

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My VS Code setup • March 01, 2019

After spending most of my time developing Javascript in vim inside a shell, I decided maybe the additional features provided by a more graphical text editor would be worth a try, and after a short jaunt into the world of emacs and spacemacs, I decided that the juggernaut that VS Code has become in the world of Javascript might be worth a go.

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