Yeah, that paragraph is where I stopped reading lol

Blog post aside, NixOS is fantastic. Once you get the Nix DSL down, it makes everything so smooth once you know how to configure your system. The learning curve for me came not from the packages, but learning how to set up system/program configurations using configuration.nix, instead of the standard config files. But once you get that down, you can rebuild essentially the exact same system from a single file. I use it for my worker nodes on my server cluster, and it makes setup of new nodes a dream. Definitely recommend.

Guix is such a cool idea, but Nix accomplishes essentially the same thing, and the syntax is much more accessible in a post-JavaScript world. Most programmers nowadays aren’t that familiar with Lisp-like syntax, for better or worse.

Another Hong Minhee banger

As mentioned elsewhere, this is appropriate for anyone doing database administration, because DB writes should always be a trans action.

It’s always Dennis

Damn… these were some of the OSS projects I was the most excited about. uv in particular is brilliant. Hope it breaks out again once OpenAI collapses.

To completely deflate the joke, it looks like the text output was stripped of its new lines, spaces/tabs, and backticks, because I think the code would be valid if allowed those elements in a Markdown context, e.g.:

```python

def reverse_linked_list(l):
    # …
    return prev

\```

(backslash included to show triple backtick)

“Your computer looks bloated…”

leans in seductively

“…I can fix that.”

That’s a great story lmao So it’s DRY… unless you’re getting paid to do it? 😂

This has been solved since 1999. Read the manual.

The deeper I get into Linux, the more I feel exactly this about most software in general. We just love reinventing the wheel, don’t we?

Yes—whichever one was hosting that pile of digital trash!

Never used it to write my code. Others have given great reasons, which resonate with me, but the biggest one for me is that I enjoy writing code and designing programs. Why would I outsource one of the things I love to do? It’s really that simple for me.

The snat 👍