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The manpage for `nix build` & `nix shell` goes to `nix-build` & `nix-shell` the stable, non-experimental command which do not need a file as an arg since they are more developer-fr…

> tightly-coupled, non-modular, non-scalable pattern, experimental This is a massive part of the problem to be advocating for & adopting flakes. My config is much simpler: nixos-re…

While rollback takes away some fears, “fearless” is a stretch. LLMs are relatively quite bad at Nix choosing tightly-coupled, non-modular, non-scalable patterns with unnecessary de…

Sailfish has some proprietary stuff to deal with the Android & Sony as well as Qt being Qt. Much of their software is open source—& collaborative with translations & forums for fee…

I‘m lucky that my part of the world doesn’t yet require apps for taxis & they accept cash. App users often end up paying more if they don’t know even basic negotiations.

I switched to Sailfish OS. A lot of rough edges, but it can can be workable—tho largely due to Sailfish having an Android layer to run those apps. It’s getting better OS-wise, but …

The page doesn’t load anything for me… I block JS by default, & something that should be informational is hiding it’s content behind scripts for some reason.

Location: Eastern Thailand Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Nix, OCaml, anything functional (learning concatenative) Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/ (I don’t w…

It also requires JavaScript. I like to have JS off by default since running code on my machine is a privilege—one that I opt into, not the the site owner’s choice. This is frustrat…

So wild thinking folks would actually believe a massive, US-based, publicly-traded company when they say something is “privacy-respecting”.

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Flake parts modules means that it’s an abstraction on top of an abstraction, flakes, on top of Nix. Then to need to throw unflake or trix at the problem is more layers & woven depe…

Yikes. That Nix code is a mess without meaningful organization & only usable via experimental flakes.

Join the club! I did as soon as the Microsoft acquisition realizing this would be only a matter of time… with more projects (finally) leaving that ecosystem, I might finally be abl…

Location: Eastern Thailand Remote: Yes, can travel every so often Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Nix, NixOS, OCaml, PureScript, Elm, JavaScript, CSS Résumé/CV: https://toast…

The snapshot-based system requires that the patch order matters which Darcs/Pijul don’t require so long as the patches apply since they commute. This means you can pull in patches …

If it got proper tooling this would be true—but the community will need to build it. Darcs has more out of the box & more existing ecosystems to work with. Pijul is barebones by de…

Why do we need to stick to Git? We need better tooling around the Patch Theory-based VCS which are better for decentralized working to begin with.

Xit has a better “take” on Git. Pijul & Darcs still have better fundamentals.

We are finally getting closer to me getting to delete my last account with Microsoft. Nixpkgs: please follow suit.

reStructuredText & AsciiDoc are so, so much better than Markdown since they have rich feature sets to actually build documentation, blogging, & so on. It’s a massive shame everyone…

There is no so I can even look at what this is.

Haskell/Miranda use `::` instead of `:` for type signatures unlike Elm & basically the rest of the family which prioritize types being less keypresses than list cons.

> Features It’s blank. Lots of blank gray rectangles too. Site is broken?

Yet folks are refusing to migrate off their products/services—as if it hasn’t been like this for 3 decades already.