Preveli Gorge with river and palm tree forest, Crete, Greece (© borchee/Getty Images)

What’s funny about the NixOS/GNU Guix design is that it tricks developers into writing their own system packages. That would never happen on other Linux distributions. I’m slowly favoring Guix though, since the new nix flake interface couples too tightly with git.

Heceta Head Light, Florence, Oregon (© Tom Schwabel/Tandem Stills + Motion)

WordPress rants are a joy to read, but where’s the simpler, safer replacement? Never forget that software is highly corporatized and mostly crafted for corporations, not humans. WordPress sits among the few that mere mortals can work with and understand. The complete revival of static sites might save us, maybe.

Take the innocent PHP web server cli.

php -S 127.0.0.1:8080

Best not to use PHP’s web server cli (even for PHP) because routes with a dot (.) are assumed to be static files. Use a real web server or superior cli web servers with minor gotchas.

python -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1 8080
busybox httpd -f -p 127.0.0.1:8080
ruby -run -e httpd . -p 8080

nikitonsky: Don’t hide what’s useful

Atlantic puffin pair billing, Shetland Islands, Scotland (© Vince Burton/Minden Pictures)

This document specifies version 3 of the RFC Editor Model. The model defines two high-level tasks related to the RFC Series. First, policy

This document describes the individuals and organizations involved in the IETF standards process, as described in BCP 9. It includes brief

Fannette Island surrounded by Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California (© Rachid Dahnoun/Tandem Stills + Motion)