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nixpkgs has many owners that span across the 80,000+ software packages. When you open a PR against a specific package, the owner is notified via CI that Nix Foundation runs. To tes…

So I had to write a few functions in both. With Guile, very straight forward using Lisp's powerful "data-as-code, code-as-data" paradigms (the ` operator). A joy really, and writin…

Spent a year with Guix and writing my own configuration. Definitely much easier to reason about using Lisp syntax over Googling what random function of the DSL you need in Nix, but…

Yes, absolutely. On one level I understand how big tech bureaucracy, politics, and layered management structures cause this to happen. Another part of me is floored, that so many b…

Have a sense of who you want to become, your values, what you aspire to be. Make decisions that bring you closer to that identity, instead of closer to more money or status. Also, …

Yeah, this is very strange. I've never even read this thread, and I (think) I remember seeing this on the correct page at one point. Maybe a bug somewhere? My comment was in respon…

"If the wildest fantasies of cryptocurrency enthusiasts were to come true, if all the environmental and technical objections were to fall away, the result would be financial capita…

I generally do a google search now and tag 'reddit' at the end, to find useful conversations around the topic I'm interested in. It's been working great so far.

Leaving my small(ish) town and taking a chance in the Bay Area. I wanted to validate my skills after being passionate about building software as a kid; it worked, I convinced a uni…