The Maillard reaction is my favorite reaction

Let 'er rip

That's the advantage that I was referring to, easy to roll back or easy to get your system back to the same state if you have to reformat boot partitions or the like.

This seems like a good time to pitch NixOS for servers!

It's become critical infra for me! You can also split multiple web pages into a single tab. Glance is one of my favorite features: previewing a link in a pop up web view that can then be opened into a full tab.

Zen browser supremacy gang gang

It's about as good of an answer as anyone's gonna get right now, I suppose, and I appreciate you wading in. Past movements you drew comparison to had the benefit of privacy; experimental pursuits in colleges or labs. Maybe Gas Town is the same and the problem is that we're all reading it.

I can make any org into a non profit if I engineer hard enough

Why do so many people who ostensibly want AI to succeed talk so publicly about it in a way that seems designed to alienate? Gas Town is the latest in a lineage that started with "AI will take your job". No surprise that so many people are so against it.

The wild content aside, I think I've figured out why every vibe coder I meet went from never having opened the terminal to being a tmux fan in like a week

My brother went on a rant about how Apple got rid of USB-C and went back to MagSafe and now he has to carry multiple chargers. When I told him about USB-C charging he was genuinely kinda deflated. Took the heat right outta him.

I had a FW 16 preorder and decided to get a 13 because it wouldn't be out for almost a year. Pretty much immediately cancelled my 16 preorder, it's great. I think the perfect combo is a 13" and an external monitor!

I've also been doing a lot of customizing and "ricing" my main Linux machine this week and haven't been loving any of the common dev color palettes out there. Beth's article hit me like a sack of bricks later and a few late hours later I introduce....

Birren!!
merriman.industries/birren-indus...

This feels significant. After the feed algorithms have done so much cultural damage over the last decade the possibility that writing and deploying an algorithm is now so democratized could be important. Not sure if you dabble in tech blogs but I'd love a write up on this!