The ‘Circle of Sacred Smoke’ sculpture by Junkyu Muto frames Devils Tower in Wyoming (© Nagel Photography/Shutterstock)

nikitonsky: Google spam detection is gone so bad even Google can’t get through it

nikitonsky: Apple Books. Font preview in font settings is smaller than actual text (left), page color preview is dimmer than actual page (middle), actual text with those settings applied (right).

Phytoplankton blooming in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska (© Norman Kuring/Kathryn Hansen/U.S. Geological Survey/NASA)

I might not remember correctly but lxc came out around 2008. Docker in 2013. The lxc commands had the trend of dashes in their name — lxc-attach, lxc-snapshot, lxc-copy and so forth. It had lots of boilerplate and a steep learning curve.

Then lxd arrived (in 2015?) to make everything user friendly. lxd is preferred. I still mostly use lxc out of habit.

Glass octopus in the Atlantic Ocean off Cabo Verde (© Solvin Zankl/Minden Pictures)

nikitonsky: Cursed. Nothing fits, everything moves

Designs projected on the Oberbaum Bridge during the yearly Festival of Lights in Berlin, Germany (© John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images)

After daily driving NixOS and the Nix pm for almost three years, it feels like it’ll be simplified by entities external to the project. It’s still in that academic phase (don’t do this/that) and needs software engineering asap.

That usually involves reducing boilerplate ruthlessly while generalizing/capturing fundamental uses cases (setting implicit best current practices). It’s reminiscent of lxc just before docker arrived for the masses.

btw this blog is served to you by NixOS :-)

nikitonsky: Just “Accept” button would be enough. But I’m glad I don’t have to buy new TV at least