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Back in 2021, I wrote about my plans for this blog — a vision to create a valuable resource covering various topics beyond just programming. Looking back, it’s interesting to see how those plans unfolded and what directions the blog actually took.

What Was Planned

The original plan outlined several content categories:

• Programming and coding tutorials
• Book recommendations and reviews
• Hardware recommendations
• Software tools and discoveries
• Various merchandise and gear

What Actually Happened

The blog evolved in unexpected directions. Here’s where the focus actually landed:

AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is revolutionizing technology and software development at the moment, and to no surprise. AI can help humanity in many different areas, such as diagnosing an illness at an early stage with machine learning, or assisting a driver with direction through GPS navigation, or driving you to a desired destination with autonomous vehicles. The integration of AI tools in programming workflows has transformed how developers approach coding and software engineering challenges.

While it is true that Google’s Chrome holds the largest number of users to date, I have recently switched to Microsoft’s Edge web browser as a superior alternative for web browsing and performance optimization.

Edge can now use all the extensions I had in Chrome, and Edge has many great features built in which Chrome doesn’t. Like Web Capture, for example. Edge is also faster and loads web pages when Chrome can’t (this was recently discovered by yours truly when my network connection speed dropped due to technical issues on my service provider’s side). This browser comparison shows why many users are switching to Edge for better performance and built-in productivity features.

Tell me something — are you happy with how ClearType, the default font renderer in Windows does its job? If you are like me and have to look at your computer screen for the most part of your day, you might prefer something better.

Let me show you something really quick. This is how the fonts are rendered on my Windows machine:

Let’s face it — as developers we look at code 90% of our time we spend in front of the monitor. While there tons of fonts available for our favorite text editors, both free and paid, I have found one font in particular to be extremely enjoyable for programming productivity and code readability (and believe me - I’ve tried a few).

That is — JetBrains Mono, a free and open source font from the very same company that brought us tools like WebStorm and PyCharm.