Whipped by PowerShell I spent the day with Windows, PowerShell, Docker, Python, FastAPI, N

Whipped by PowerShell

I spent the day with Windows, PowerShell, Docker, Python, FastAPI, Neo4j, and the kind of misplaced optimism usually reserved for lottery tickets and new year’s resolutions. The schoolboy error? Not using Linux.

I just wanted it all — the convenience, the pretty apps, the illusion that you can exist among normal people and still summon containers like a wizard. But Windows doesn’t care about your dreams. It promises you compatibility, then gaslights you with pathing errors, broken mounts, and cryptic log messages written by demons in middle management.

Docker sulked. FastAPI refused to respond. Neo4j just stared, judging me with that smug graph-theory confidence. Meanwhile, PowerShell stood over me like an old-school headmaster, tapping its ruler, whispering “you brought this on yourself.”

And it’s true. I did. Because I thought I could have both worlds — Spotify and sanity. A GUI and control. Comfort and chaos. But you can’t. Not here. Not on Windows.

So now I sit among the fragments of my dev environment, humbled, broken, and slightly impressed by how efficiently one operating system can ruin a man’s spirit.

Lesson learned: next time, I’ll just install Ubuntu and call it self-care.