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Author here. Thanks for the feedback.

The Python bit mostly lives in the "Python - It Takes a Cast of Thousands to Raise a Platform" section, but your point is well taken.

What kind of Windows Python specific content would you like to have seen? I wrote the article from my personal perspective of having found Python development on Windows painful a number of years back and so chose to focus more on the improvements that removed those barriers to productivity.


Author here: Most notable are WSL-G and Powertoys Run as mentioned in the article.


FWIW this is my post. I didn't post it here because I'm not really involved with this community very much.

Any feedback would be very much appreciated.


It's well written and pretty much spot on. The difficult thing with advice is that one first needs to figure out where one is in the spectrum before determining whether it's applicable - i.e. overweight people could benefit from eating less, underweight people could benefit from eating more.


Great article. Gives one much food for thought.


OSX has been an accessibility leader for a very long time. However recently everybody else has been catching up.

I was away from Linux and Windows for 10 years because neither provided key chorded full screen zoom by default and now they do.

So, in short, accessibility support in OSX is good, but no longer best in breed, so choose the OS you're most comfortable with generally.

IOS accessibility is excellent. Screen zoom, VoiceOver, high contrast, etc.


Hi! I'm nosing in here but I'm a partially blind dev who recently came back to Linux and have had great success with the KDE desktop, specifically Kubuntu 18.10 in my case.

They have excellent accessibility support baked in by default.

Things are getting better all around in modern Linux though because in recent Ubuntu releases you can enable voice narration, full screen zoom (my show stopper must have) and screen readers from the login screen.

Good luck!


This is a rather disingenuous headline given the actual contents of the order. Nice job fearmongering, OP. It's a shame someone felt the need to spread the false panic to HN.


Is this just another cheeky Javascript "amiga simulator" gag site in Javascript? Or is there any real functionality here?


I also wish ELB would get security groups like EC2 and RDS already have.

I think a LOT of people revert to HAPRoxy on an EC2 instance because of this.


Use http://bitsquest.bitbucket.org/ as posted by another commenter. That one works.


Apples and Oranges JacksonGariety. Diet Coda allows you to code external projects that are stored in a server. This is for allowing you to write Codea applications on your computer rather than right on the iPad.


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