There’s a monthly Nix meetup in my area, “Nix your bugs”. Never been there. I’m currently contemplating showing up there with my NixOS laptop and nix all the bugs (well, replacing them with others) by installing Guix. Given the recent developments, I don’t even think most of the people who are there will consider that a dick move.

Fittingly, just two days ago they did open up a Mastodon account — this one: https://hachyderm.io/@guix. I’d say be sure to boost their initial toot and possibly more.

From an email that just appeared on the devel list:

Hi,

As you will have seen GNU Guix is now on Mastodon - we have entered the social media age: https://hachyderm.io/@guix

The goal of being on Mastodon is it’s another communications method (like the blog an email lists) that we can tell people about GNU Guix, but also engage with people about Guix and related topics.

It would be great to have a few people who’d like to regularly post and engage. Anyone interested?

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The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

— Classic quote by Donald E. Knuth is classic.

But you speak of liking programming, and I emphatically agree with your assessment that that’s necessary to get good at it, and I like that you point out that obsession with efficiency quickly becomes an impediment to that.

I’ll also throw this in, “A Raku Manifesto” by Daniel Sockwell (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Especially Part 3 was really eye-opening for me with regard to the question of what kind of programming language is good for personal and libre software projects.

Cool :) I have most experience with openSUSE, so what I think I’ll do is dual-boot Guix and openSUSE on my laptop, perhaps with a shared home directory or at least shared data directories.

NixOS to Guix discussion thread :)

What distro do you prefer, Guix or something else?

Do you happen to be in the loop about qutebrowser? I’ve read good things about it (but from 2020).

Audrey Tang ist echt beeindruckend. Hatte damals für Perl 6 (das heute Raku heißt) die Enwicklung des Compilers Pugs geleitet und die Entwicklung der Sprache damit deutlich vorangebracht. Siehe hier warum Raku so spannend ist.