He said himself that the team had tuned him out. Ownership didn't want to see him go and Danny had a quiet offer to work in/with Utah. It's fascinating story, discussed at length.

Climbing down?

That makes sense, thanks!

According to this relationship, who are the snubs? I would guess its a lot of high efficiency, low minutes guys.

I get that it's hard to do this when you're frustrated. You have to give effort to get it back.

Is this available as a codepen?

They don’t need to convince you, they only need to convince each other

I've only learned about Nix this fall, but it solves some problems in the ecosystem I mostly work in that benefit from commit level pinning of app dependencies and system level pinned dependencies are a bonus. More of a composable pattern than Docker/ OCI.

The Linux package manager? I think this guys is responding to you saying something like "Memento is hard to follow" with "the Godfather is a better film". I've never used either one. I thought Cargo had a good rep, Nix is a new hotness but it has very good ideas about deterministic builds.