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Developing inside a virtual machine
Keeping my laptop clean by developing in a virtual machine
In the past, I experienced first hand how much a development machine can get bogged down when it’s riddled with hundreds of services and homebrew packages and dependencies. It’s such a smooth experience to working with tmux using keyboard shortcuts I’m familiar with (⌘T for new tabs and ⌘D / ⌘⇧D for horizontal / vertical splits). It’s not perfect security but a useful level of defense and I still use Little Snitch pedantically to manage network access from various programs inside and outside the guest VM.
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