I honestly think the big win coming out of the most recent events is framing https://github.com/nixos/nix as "CppNix". There are lots of good explanations about how each of the pieces relates to one another, but for practical purposes, many of those pieces live in one place, and now we can all call that place CppNix, which sounds...less than ideal! I think it's the thing that will make clear just how dependent the whole enterprise is on that piece, and just how tightly that piece is controlled, even if other people on the CppNix team think that something like a fork is overkill and that things are better, because they can only be so good when CppNix is the default for a bunch of things it shouldn't be. Some of those other team members have been working to make that less true, and I think that's great, but I think a lot of recent documentation improvements have managed to hide the tight coupling, even if it wasn't intentional, and this makes it absolutely clear.
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I regret to tell you that at least one commenter on lobste.rs decided to break their 6mo commenting silence to opine that the site design is too "pink".
what level of fragile masculinity have we reached where a bog-standard, modular corporate memphis site using pink as an accent color instead of Tech Startup Blue warrants an evaluation that we've "left the tech industry" (read: respectability)
please. read What is queer typography? and make like. one singular aesthetic decision in your life that doesn't conform to someone else's standards
who knew that an effective firewall against bad faith actors was to make your Nix fork lesbian themed? and speaking of bad faith, holy fuck, some of the takes in that lobste.rs thread
Some people are salty that the threats of forking were actually backed by existing forks I guess.
lobsters are, frankly, deeply unserious site with laughingly bad moderation; you can freely write “debian has grown an apparatchik class”, and this is an acceptable language, but calling the author of the comment “a libertarian bro who uses words they don't understand” causes the reply to be moderated.
what is the sentiment on tvix here? is it a no-go because of the Yandex connection? If so it would be a shame because TVL is doing some really cool stuff with their monorepo/non-flake setup.
Was gonna blog this but I'm actively looking for work so need to tone it down a bit
"Hah! Let them fork! Our mightly BDFL will resist all comers!"
"guys this fork says it's nice to people but it's actually unkind towards our long-suffering BDFL and his hard work. please be civil"