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I logged in but I am not sure how to add video to a "Scrim". I'd love to create some Nix (https://nixos.org/) content. Is this possible?

Too bad the search for libraries has to be consolidated. * Cough * Nix * Cough*

This is amazing and I wish I had access to this resource months ago when I explored a new binary format as well.

bzlmod feels better at first but you're left navigating version conflicts anyways.

Vendoring deps is the only true real sane way for large repos

Professionally for 10 years ? I would like to hear more.

I remember Target funded some earlier Nix work like lorri.

Interestingly, I found operating at this level to have been a necessity if I wanted to fix or write a derivation. Otherwise I would face random errors and be left clueless as to what the problem was.

Writing a derivation builder (nix pill) was illuminating.

What a fun read. Thanks for the nice call out on my blog.

If you're also interested I (Farid) also had a follow up where I follow up on how the hashes are calculated. (Using the error to get the hashes also bugged me)

I use it to also create vanity hashes :)

https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/28/what-s-in-a-nix-store-path

https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/27/nix-vanity-store-paths

Any screenshots ? That would be fun to see over my own GitHub organization.

Amazing alias I've adopted. Should be standard.

What about wash sale

Same

I just wrote about my experience here on a project https://fzakaria.com/2025/01/28/bazel-build-event-protocol-v...

They had this as an internal product within Google. I liked it as part of their lab 120 division. They ended up killing it :(

You'd never see a Windows developer work in MacOS or a iOS developer work in Linux but Linux developers (server side) routinely work in MacOS

Unnecessary abstraction

Very sad half the comments are asking for MacOS app. The rise of development on MacOS for server development when the final target is Linux will cause long term harm to the newer generation of engineers

Pretty neat idea but the chording seems limited. 300 words to start. How useful is it in practice ?curious to hear any reviews.

Right now I am really liking my kinesis advantage 2 Love the form factor.

You've been so welcoming in the jj community. Thank you.

I don't understand how absorb works in your example. Why would the commit "z" be affiliated with some random documentation changes you come across and fix in the wip commit.

All that I see is it makes it easier to make small refinements to preciously altered lines ?

Super excited for jj.... Almost want to find a work opportunity to promote it. Been a refreshing tool I've adopted in 2024 I'm happy about.

I really enjoyed Snippets at Google which was a company wide way to share your changelog.

There were also some nice integrations to pull in commits, doc edits , etc..

The jj community on discord has been great also. It took a while for it to sync in but when I use git now it feels "wrong"

At University of Waterloo we used scheme

I forgot to mention, I wrote about it https://fzakaria.com/2024/11/08/jvm-boot-optimization-via-ja...

I'm kind of intrigued by Mill but I've fallen into the same trap I've observed in others. I'm over indexed in mental capacity in having wasted learning Bazel and it's equivalent systems.

The lift to another system has to be enough to surpass that loss.

Long classpaths with unnecessary direct dependencies (i.e. not runtime) cause surprising slowdowns due to lookup performance.

Been using jujutsu which does stacked diffs. Just the use of GitHub UI still a shame for stacked diffs and I'm unwilling to use graphite if I can't convince the rest of my team.

Every company has lore like this; I remember when I joined Amazon hearing how someone would create SEV-1 tickets because their phone didn't work (Jeff B. would get personally paged for all SEV-1 at the time)

Yea what's the citation? Nothing is stopping any company that "commits" to do a 180; they only need to cite changing conditions.

"Committing" something as a public trading company has little weight behind it. At the end of the day, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders and can do any changes in service to that.

Isn't it working here: https://cs.opensource.google/bazel/bazel/+/master:src/main/s...

I remember there were docs how to onboard a repo to that list.

They had access to the ILOM and had some much more durable way to STONITH. Of course every link can "technically" fail but it brought it to some unreasonable amount of 9s that it felt unwarranted to consider.

I remember at Oracle they built systems to shut down the previous presumed leader to definitively know it wasn't ghosting.

So for us normies does that mean skip TLA?

I remember in a past life using DRBD to keep block devices in sync (at RDS AWS).

Is this functionality effectively in-kernel now ?

Honestly nothing of substance here. Would be great to get a first hand account of jj in practice.

Then the symbols interpose (shadow) and now you have divergent behavior depending on the order they are loaded (which can change in Python as they are dlopen)