In this interview, we speak with Jakub Chrzanowski (@hsz @hszanowski), the author of the .ignore plugin for the IntelliJ-based IDEs. This plugin lets you mark matched .ignore files in project view, assists with editing them, and helps you generate ignore rules using templates.
Welcome, Jakub! Before we get started, could you please tell us a bit about yourself and your background?
I started my development journey in primary school with Pascal. I had strong support from my teacher and his code listings from a dot-matrix printer. That was a very exciting beginning for a young fellow and someti