Distinct lower case connections

I stopped reading right there 🙂

Yep. NixOS inspired me to write my very first package manager package. I distro hopped to Arch Linux and wrote a PKGBUILD for that.

I’m back on NixOS

For anything more complicated than an alias, I tend to suck it up and write a program. I used to keep launcher scripts in ~/bin but I’ve recently taken to creating package manager packages for them. I’ve learned how to do that with NixOS and Arch Linux and I peeked at the Debian documentation.

Why don’t you like Debian?

man man

Why in the world is -S used for install?

The only reason I’m hanging onto Windows at the moment is Apple Music

I’ve been using Linux for years and years. I get the subjective sense it is a system built by engineers for engineers. I can examine, poke, prod, and break every aspect of the system. I consider that a bonus and it’s how I learn about computers.

I can fly through the system with my terminal

Etc

Edit: Centralized software package and dependency management is awesome

That was scary. I had the bad version on my computer for a bit.

I installed Arch for the very first time this past weekend. I am a software engineer with almost 30 years experience and some time less with Linux. I did my research beforehand: I watched a manual installation on YouTube and I went over the wiki.

And the manual installation was hard. I would not recommend it to a beginner.

he is still completely new to this so I want things to work out perfectly for his first experience.

This isn’t Arch, sorry. My own Arch didn’t boot the first time (but yes I was able to fix it quickly).

Debian.

Start with stable. You can migrate a stable installation to testing later if you’re so inclined.

I don’t think the private portions of passkeys are stored on servers

I certainly care about it

Mine doesn’t. I reboot when I get a new kernel.

I would call Visual Studio Code a success story for them

HOLY CRAP

Let’s say I run a command that spews output. Are you saying that with Zsh I can use only the keyboard to navigate the spew, copy a bit of it, and paste it in a new command?

If so I should try it out!

I moved from Debian unstable to NixOS this past Saturday. It’s been…interesting. I’m fighting the urge to run screaming back to Debian.

I tried purging Git from my system last night as an experiment. Try as I might I couldn’t get all references to it to disappear from the Nix store. I disabled it from configuration.nix and Home Manager. Removed all system and Home Manager generations except the current. Still there after various combinations of nix-channel --update, nixos-rebuild switch, and home-manager switch.

I write my code for future maintainers. I optimize for clarity, testability, and readability.

I’ve become a huge fan of dependency injection. That does not mean I like DI frameworks (Guice). I tend to do it manually with regular code.

When I maintain code and I sit there wondering what it actually does, I write a unit test for it right then and there

And so on

I’m a Linux–Android user and Apple Music is the closest I’ve found to Google Play Music’s library management (the best there ever was). So it’s what I use.