zongor [comrade/them, he/him]

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Cake day: September 2nd, 2020

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  • Nix seemed more focused on marketing and cutting corners to make a working product faster

    Yes, this is a big issue in corporate development. It seems like management is in a constant state of barreling headfirst into a “silver bullet that fixes everything” instead of doing things the hard way (which in the long term is almost always better.

    expect to either package it yourself

    I have not maintained any packages before but I am very interested in learning how, I shall look into this.

    Shepherd for its init system

    I vaguely remember this was the originally used in Hurd? if so that is cool.

    https://toys.whereis.みんな/

    This is very cool!

    guix import

    This seems quite useful thanks for that.

    Setting up Emacs, a local SMTP server connected to your email for git, and a CLI password manager will probably be helpful.

    I have been wanting to set up upasfs this may be the push I need to finally get around to doing that.

    It appears Guix may be a good choice in the future but not quite yet, I will try installing it as a package manager and/or try it in a VM to start out with. Thanks for the info!