TIL you can debug Nix builds interactively in the sandbox itself

A historical publication written during the early 1940s amid World War II, "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" serves as a unique historical artifact that illustrates grassroots resistance efforts and the belief in the collective power of ordinary people during wartime.

Very well written post explaining the reality of gaming in the Global South and how the US-based media knowingly and unknowingly participates in its erasure.

For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively.

Some clever tricks you can employ to salvage an essentially un-salvageable machine. I learned a lot of new things from this!

A retrospective post about how #Balatro came to be, straight from its creator. Very helpful knowledge for budding game devs to learn the process behind having their own indie hit!

Today I learned that Firefox started as an act of protest from Mozilla engineers who hated the bloated product they were being forced to create

Oracle provides some incredibly powerful hardware for free and this post explains a very straightforward and easy to follow way to get set up with NixOS on their servers.

Gradle will always parallelize tasks to the maximum possible degree, which might not always be desirable when tasks have extreme memory and/or CPU usage and end up starving the whole build out. Aurimas shares a great trick with Gradle BuildServices that lets tasks have a maximum parallelism.

Great read on the state of the AI industry post the release of DeepSeek R1, which has shattered the idea of AI training only being available to the biggest players in the field.

Fun dive into the history of Git's autocorrect feature

The creator of One Million Checkboxes is back with another fun experiment.

Timezones are insane

A somewhat dated but still quite useful list of things to look out for when diving into building distributed systems

Kinda wild to me that such a city could ever have existed outside the pages of Science Fiction.

Just beautifully written. I would recommend reading this even if you are in a good place mentally.