I might regret asking this but -- is there a guide out there to nix for human beings?

I like the idea of nix in theory but every time I look at any nix documentation or configuration files my eyes glaze over after about 12 seconds and I give up.

(really what's happening is that I’m using a Mac right now, I miss Linux package managers, I'm mad at homebrew, I'm somewhat hopeful that nix can help me manage my packages more sanely, but I'm unwilling to spend a million hours learning nix)

Holy Crap, this message from the #corejs maintainer is something else!

“I wanted to make the life of all JS developers easier and in November 2014, I published core-js as an open-source project. Maybe it was the biggest mistake in my life.”

You have to read the rest of his story yourself. Let’s just say it’s crazy he suffered through so much, while maintaining one of the webs most popular libraries for free!

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md

#opensource #oss #funding

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

I've been idly wondering why so few places use Elm nowadays after all the excitement about it in 2013. Of course one half of this is the runaway success of React, Vue, etc., but this thread that popped up today seems to explain the other half: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34746161.

Multiple people link to https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/ which, while only one person's opinion, seems to sum up a sentiment that a lot of other former Elm users have.