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42jd

720 karma · joined September 27, 2021

Student of economics and computer science. NixOS and Rust open source enthusiast.

Contact: mail [at] jdisaacs [dot] com

Website: jdisaacs.com

GitHub: @jordanisaacs

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42jd··on A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech
Yep, some of the subreddits definitely kind of focus on one section of the genre but that’s what I kind of like. If I want to find some good new music with a specific sound, I know I can just check those communities out. When I was first discovering electronic though, all the subgenres and labels was overwhelming. Now that I have my tastes kinda figured out I now add in listening to labels I like and artists. That everynoise site is really interesting, never heard of it before. Excited to check it out, thanks for the link!
42jd··on A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech
Some of the best music discovery I’ve had is actually Reddit. I primarily listen to electronic and the communities are 6/5. It’s just streams of music being recommended, with occasional discussion, in tiny subreddits for all the subgenres. I’ll let you find the subreddits yourself if your interested (just search for your intended subgenre). don’t wanna spoil them :)
42jd··on How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]
This was a delightful video! as an avid skier I always noticed that chairlifts that turn are pretty uncommon, but I have never thought deeply into why. the final lift shown that can move in all four directions is definitely some ingenious engineering!
42jd··on Rusty Typestates – Starting Out
The same site has a great introduction (not for rust though) to session types: https://rustype.github.io/notes/notes/session-types.html
42jd··on How to Learn Nix
No experience with ruby but nixpkgs has sections for many languages. See ruby: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f.... Also a quick search on the NixOS wiki gives this: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Ruby.

This is less packaging related (more nix lang related) but here is my go to resource for functions: https://teu5us.github.io/nix-lib.html. teu5us extracted the builtin/lib function docs and put them on one place saving you from having it split up into multiple manuals.

One issue with nix is the content has been written down it’s very inaccessible. It is split up between blog posts, discourse, nixpkgs code comments, the wiki, Reddit, etc. When working on something in nix I’ll frequently have 10+ sources of information. The google-fu needed is strong.

My biggest recommendation is to dive into the nixpkgs repo and other public dotfiles as most likely what you are doing has been done.

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