The thesis of FlakeHub is that Nixpkgs can't scale much more. The difficulty of accepting new contributions tilts the table away from Nixpkgs being the best place to ship Nix expressions. This is proving out to be true.

The ecosystem is so busy fretting about if flakes are perfect or not that they're missing missing the roiling fire right under their nose: Nixpkgs stopped scaling ages ago! It's why flakes are winning: they solve that problem! This is why Determinate Nix is so committed to them!

Edison Motors guy crashing out because he can't backdoor his way into making an ultra-polluting truck is so good.

Sudoscientist Graham Christensen getting nix to work on mac sucks, getting determinate nix to work on mac is flawless

Say it with me, folks

A neovim user WOULD drive without a seatbelt wouldn’t they

Running Determinate Nix right now, it's actually faster with lazy trees. I like it.

Does YouTube have a “this dude fell asleep” algorithm? Last night after I fell asleep it immediately punted me to a perpetual live stream of Gregorian chants. I’ve never fallen asleep with YouTube on, and I’ve never listened to chants on YouTube either.

if you're not on jj you're missing out

Does Unifi still suck at ipv6?

They yearn for black lung.

Literally this entire week I've been sick with Assorted ailments. One moment my energy is back, the next I'm ready to nap on the couch a couple hours. 0/10 don't recommend