Development setup: how an important part of your toolset is often overlooked
summary
Claim that an overlooked part of the toolset is killing productivity backed by three concrete cases: one developer codes in Notepad for six years producing brittle, typo-filled releases, another uses vanilla editor settings and asks why fonts and themes look odd, a third reconfigures the workspace and wins a promotion. The talk shows what was actually changed, the surprising outcomes, and that fixing the setup makes debugging and flow measurably better.
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