nikitonsky: I hope you are not in a hurry. Slow down and appreciate how slow and thorough our transitions are

Mount Kilimanjaro with Cape buffaloes in foreground, Amboseli Biosphere Reserve, Kenya (© RealityImages/Shutterstock)

nikitonsky: Useless tooltips that actively get in your way

The Hughes H-4 Hercules, aka the Spruce Goose, November 1947, Long Beach Harbor, California (© J R Eyerman/Shutterstock)

I have multiple times criticized tech on political grounds, but is that a valid reason for criticism or does that simply constitute ranting?

Intent is an abstract, high-level policy used to operate a network. An intent-based management system includes an interface for users to

This document provides an overview of operational networking and transport protocol issues that pertain to the quality of experience

I feel sorta conflicted about my posted notes on nixops because shortly after that I discovered nixos-rebuild had remote deploys. Now nixos-rebuild itself is just a bash script and taking a peek inside is well, you know.. enlightening. There’s even a NixOS deployment tool written in just nix. I use nixos-rebuild…

nixos-rebuild switch \
  --target-host "nix@remote.host" \
  --build-host "localhost" \
  --no-build-nix

nikitonsky: Maybe it’s time Twitter turns its spaceship of the UI into something more clean and organized? What do you think?

Ngl, most of the fastest web spas I’ve seen were using nuxt.js. Performant react web applications are rare… But honestly, the usability of the web overall is in the gutter. I’ve spent these last few days watching people frustrate themselves over broken web application forms (for banks especially).