Good reminders for all the devs out there trying to claw some time on the backlog for better resiliency focused projects!

Prod is in late "dark deployment" / early rollout stages, with a few dozen NixOS deployments supporting low hundreds of customers, ramping up to thousands by early next year.

There is a lot I *don't* know about Nix… but a few years deep in the weeds, I know a lot more than I am proud to admit 😅

To be clear, I'm focusing on servers or development environments; I don't have the fortitude to run Linux on the desktop!

Some more context: my team runs Nix for the dev systems of a half dozen people, working in Ruby, Rust, JS, Java, across a dozen different app, data, and API services.

This is the way

Also: ebikes? I think we’re going to need solar panels, a battery, an inverter, and a handful of bike chargers for various different brands. And while we’re at it, landscaping equipment also uses batteries. This sounds like a very multipurpose building to me, I’m not sure ‘vehicles’ really captures…

Okay I’ll bite: why do you want an OpenSearch on a raspberry pi!

Crucial Conversations

I mean, RUST_LOG, and clap env, but you know those 😎

Aw yiss

Recently dove in on a glove80 with Engram. Going from 115 to 15wpm is humbling.

Yeah if Bluesky counts!

Problem: searching across five different indexes.
Solution? Combine them into one!
New problem: searching across six different indexes…

Maybe if we're lucky we can get a bias checker in Rust 🤞

But how do you know if a programmer is a Rust pro-ohhh yeah that tracks

😂

Try your hand at @graze.social?