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Agree on your comment re build/templating and new language. Nix is weird and NixOS is complicated. Nonetheless I have convinced myself that I like it. In TFA the author must set up…

Thank you for this! I have exactly the same problem and was waiting for the solution to present itself, which it now has. Aside: I use NixOS with home-manager (on linux and mac), w…

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Martin Kleppmann (author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications) has a great article in the same vein: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...

I wouldn’t classify cloudflare as being “sleazy”, but as far as I know, they’re only doing domain registration as an avenue to cross-sell. They might be one of the “good ones” now,…

Domain registrars have a general sense of being bad: sleazy, upselling, cross-selling, poaching domains based on searches. The ones that look like they could be good get sold off (…

I hadn’t heard of the red zone, this article explained it quite well: https://os.phil-opp.com/red-zone/ .

I often commit in a detached HEAD state (primarily because we're using Gerrit, and git-review sort of encourages it). Sublime Merge won't let me commit without being on a branch. I…

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I would have thought that an offering like AWS' dedicated hosts would solve the noisy neighbours problem and offer some guarantee for IOPS. I find it surprising that they don't men…