After many years of mostly keeping up with the latest tech trends, I’ve decided to step off that path and go back to „ the roots”. This year’s Christmas present is a CD player with Bluetooth, internet, and digital radio. My growing frustration with Alexa not playing the music I want finally tipped the balance. As an avid music listener with a large CD collection, I can now play what I want, when I want—independent of Big Tech. #digitalcaveman
Omiword: Because who doesn't want to spend their precious time dragging tiles like a digital caveman, only to spell words that a toddler can pronounce? 🤓🧩 Congrats, you've won absolutely nothing but a fleeting sense of superiority! 🎉 Keep playing for more existential dread! 😅
https://www.omiword.com/ #Omiword #DigitalCaveman #WordGames #ExistentialDread #FunAndGames #HackerNews #ngated
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🎉✨ Max Bernstein takes us on a thrilling ride of manual labor, crafting Nix derivations by hand like it's 1999! Who needs automation when you can painstakingly piece things together like a digital caveman? 🤦‍♂️🔧 Spoiler: the mystery of the hashes remains unsolved, leaving us all guessing - ironic, isn't it? 😂🔍
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/nix-by-hand/ #NixDerivations #ManualLabor #DigitalCaveman #HashMystery #AutomationHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Nix derivations by hand, without guessing

I went on a little low-level Nix adventure yesterday and early this morning because of this excellent blog post. In it, Farid builds up the simplest possible Nix derivation—making a file that has the contents “hello world”. Here’s what I like about it:

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