Photo credit I have been using an Apple M1 laptop since autumn of 2021, but I just recently came across an issue that surprised me. It seems I hadn’t converted Homebrew (a package manager for macOS) for compatibility with Apple Silicon. I mostly use Homebrew to install packages I rarely use (such as Ruby or Python libraries), so perhaps that’s why I hadn’t noticed. However, this issue surfaced because I tried to install a Python package (Poetry) to work on a generative AI project, and it was looking for Python in the wrong place.

Photo credit My dad likes to say that cooking is another form of creativity - part art, part science - that produces something physical, edible, and enjoyable with the chef’s unique style. Programming can be similar (minus the edible part). To learn to cook, you can take classes or read books, but the best teacher is rolling up your sleeves and experimenting yourself. When should you choose this utensil or that?