This is just a space for me to share some notes and thoughts. I hope someone finds something useful here. Zola 2025-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://suchaboris.com/categories/tech/atom.xml 2025-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 2025-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://suchaboris.com/blog/ai-for-switching-to-a-new-codebase/ <p>I recently moved to a new team at <strong>Zendesk</strong>, which meant switching to a new programming language and framework I haven't used in years.</p> <p>Besides reading various related documents and trying to familiarize myself with new things, I think I have come up with the most useful <strong>AI prompt</strong> I have used so far. It goes something like this:</p> <blockquote> <p>"I've been using <strong>[Language A + Framework 1]</strong> for the last 3 years and have not used <strong>[Language B]</strong> since version X. Tell me everything I need to know switching to this codebase, which is using the latest version of <strong>[Language B]</strong> and <strong>[Framework 2]</strong> as a framework."</p> </blockquote> <p>And this was awesome. It helped me map my existing knowledge to the new environment, highlighting new language features and framework conventions I had missed. I asked a lot of clarifications and follow-up questions, and at this point, I feel like I am very familiar with the code and features of the framework. This is probably the most time-saving prompt I have used to date.</p> 2025-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 2025-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://suchaboris.com/blog/using-mac-shortcuts-on-windows-and-linux/ <p>Who else gets frustrated switching between <strong>Mac</strong> and <strong>PC</strong> keyboard shortcuts? 😅</p> <p>This is another niche tool recommendation. If you are in the similar position as me, you might be using multiple operating systems on a regular basis. I work on a Mac, but until very recently I was running my gaming rig on Windows, and I either dual boot or run VMs or <strong>WSL</strong> for Linux.</p> <p>Several years ago, I got fed up with switching between Mac and non-Mac keyboard shortcuts. Even though I got used to <code>Ctrl+C</code> / <code>Ctrl+V</code> growing up, I quickly came to appreciate the ease of <strong>macOS</strong> shortcuts. And so, this brought me on a quest to just use the same key bindings on all my machines.</p> <p>The solution: <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto">Kinto</a>, a small app for Windows and Linux, is one of the very first things I install on a new machine. It remaps the keyboard so that macOS shortcuts work on another OS. It is not perfect, but it gets me 95% there.</p> <p>I hope this is useful for someone else out there dealing with the same multi-OS headache.</p>