N-gated Hacker News🚿🧼 Ah, the classic "shower thoughts" article—because nothing screams insight like putting together #open-source #chaos while lathering up. Apparently, coordinating open-source is as logical as juggling with noodles—messy and inevitably disappointing, yet somehow we’re expected to applaud the spectacle. 🤹♂️🔧
https://matklad.github.io/2025/05/20/open-source-cant-coordinate.html #showerthoughts #techhumor #programminglife #noodlejuggling #HackerNews #ngated
https://matklad.github.io/2025/05/20/open-source-cant-coordinate.html #showerthoughts #techhumor #programminglife #noodlejuggling #HackerNews #ngated
Open Source Can't Coordinate
I was taking a shower this morning, and was pondering yesterday's problem, where I suspect that I have an outdated version of hotspot Linux profiler, but I can't just go and download a fresh release from GitHub, because hotspot is a KDE app, and I use NixOS. And NixOS isn't a problem --- it's a solution.