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I don't want to login to github.com when I'm on my work computer. That's going to take me one step closer to uploading company internal stuff by accident.

It's not only code search that is affected. Issue and pull request search are affected as well. Here's a screen recording of that happening: https://imgur.com/a/BT6uRIe It's been q…

My thoughts exactly. Container-based development environments has a Cygwin-like clunkiness to it. But even clunkier because of the default lack of access to the host system, and th…

It's really not. Docker is a tool for binary distribution. Docker images are those binaries. Dockerfiles used to create Docker images don't have any mechanism to ensure reproducibi…

I think Nix is relevant here, because being able to run software across different machines reproducibly is one of its major selling point. I particularly like that it doesn't rely …

I think there's a bit of confusion caused by equating Nix "derivations" with "packages" of traditional package managers. Nix mainly concerns itself with derivations [1]. They're bu…

> has been well worked out for Chinese and Japanese. Not really. Typing CJK text is a tedious and frustrating experience. People cope with it because no one has come up with a bett…

Treating packaging boundaries and runtime isolation as the same thing is exactly the problem with Docker and similar solutions. Just because some package didn't require another pac…

I believe Stow can fix everything except #2 [1], although I haven't actually used it before. But it's also easy to create your own "garbage collector" that cleans up dangling symli…