Jumping back into learning Nix as I want to use NixOS for my homelab. I had a brief brush with Nix via nix-darwin back in 2020 in the pre-Flakes era. I loved the declarative nature of Nix, but it definitely had rough edges. I’m hoping Flakes will make things smoother this time around.

A photo that I snapped an hour ago of the San Francisco #NoKings protest. I estimate about 150,000 people in total.

From sea to shining sea, millions of Americans are taking to the streets to reject Trump’s authoritarianism. #nokings

cloudflare is a net negative on the internet even before you get to the fascism

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things."

Douglas Adams predicted some of the knee-jerk negative reactions to LLMs.

Apple's Spotlight updates are trying to Sherlock Raycast

there exists an entire class of programmer for whom the goal of programming is not to solve a problem, but to write code

golang is for that person

github copilot is for that person

I hate that Facebook and Elon ruined the terms “meta” and “X” in casual (text) conversation.

#StarTrek

“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians

London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence

https://www.osnews.com/story/142488/ai-coding-chatbot-funded-by-microsoft-were-actually-indians/

#ClownCar

You’ve heard of DRY. Now get a load of WET (Write Everything [at least] Twice)

Pretty strongly consider a UNAS Pro, now that I have Ubiquiti for my networking. I wanted a NAS for “just storage”, since I wanted to separate compute. This seems to fit the bill, is rack mounted, and doesn’t break the $1k mark (sans drive).

#StarTrek

If your AI recruiting emails don’t even sign off as if they were coming from an actual recruiter, you have 0% chance hearing back from me.

Is it possible to create middleware for @honeybadger? For example, I want to tag every exception with a code owner based on the originating file path. Searching “middleware” didn’t turn up anything in the docs /cc @wood

Boomers signing their texts like:

Thank you
Ryan

I know who it is because I’ve got you on my phone as a contact!

AI codegen is programming's replication crisis.

"How are _you_ not as productive as this AI? It generates 10 PRs in 30 minutes for $20 of tokens, you take 10x as long and cost 10x as much"

We have no real productivity measure. What is "maintainable"? What is "clean"?

The cloud is just someone else's computer. Specifically, Bill's.