Matthew Broberg

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Minneapolis, MN

Matt was an EMC storage expert, VMware vExpert, and former fan of other proprietary technologies. He now focuses on open source and DevRel adoption. He is a serial podcaster, best known for the Geek Whisperers podcast, co-built the DevRel Collective, and often shares on Twitter and GitHub @mbbroberg. Hi is also a fan of tattoos and cats, though he remains unsure of Schrödinger’s.

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Authored Comments

mbbroberg

23 Mar 2020

Don't love diff? Use Meld instead

I adopted Meld since you mentioned it to me Ben, and I'm absolutely loving it. The auto-detection by git it's quite handy as well. Thanks for sharing!

mbbroberg

10 Mar 2020

Drop Bash for fish shell to get beautiful defaults

Huh, I've been using terminal emulator interchangeably. Thank you for (kindly) pointing that out.

Also, this is a fantastic read for others confused by the terminology: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/