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- Software engineer building reproducible software at Flox - 🥌 Curling enthusiast - D&D nerd - Former developer of femtosecond laser spectrometers - Rust and Nix/NixOS enjoyer
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submitted 19 hours ago • 775 comments

As an official #eink stan, there’s a strong urge to buy an E-ink monitor and develop a #hyprland theme that works well for grey scale displays. I’ve been on a real “reducing distractions” kick lately. I’ve been sick all week and decided to leave my Apple Watch off, and feel so much better.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

The Rust team is hiring a Program Manager: hackmd.io/VGauVVEyTN2M...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

There's still time to register for tomorrow's live event with Kelsey Hightower and Ron Efroni! Attend and hear how Nix can change the way you think about managing software.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Nix represents a different way of building reproducible software, but Nix has its own challenges, and in many ways Docker already won. So what hope is there for something like Nix in the long run? Come find out tomorrow at the @flox.dev virtual event.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

I have four plane flights coming up. Such a chore. Packing, checking in, scheduling a cab to the airport, and leaving instructions for my funeral.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Bullshit like this is why many #Autistic people feel like there’s no material benefit to getting a formal diagnosis.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Decided to try out Amazon’s AI thing today and asked it to find me products similar to an $8 USB-A reading light but with USB-C. Its recommendation was a $140 monitor light bar. Cool, good job.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I consider myself a pretty normal engineer. A benefit of making systems that allow normal engineers to succeed is that they are generally kinder towards and more supportive of our neurodivergent colleagues (like myself). #adhd #autism #audhd refactoring.fm/p/in-praise-...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Boston Dynamics Dog Unstoppable At Puppy Bowl theonion.com/super-b...

submitted 39 days ago • 156 comments

Hey, uhhh Okay bye

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 47 days ago • 786 comments

#caturday

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I have a new toy! I love #e-ink devices, and it’s incredibly timely that we also got the announcement that #Pebble watches are coming back!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Here in Boulder it was below zero with about 8 inches of snow this weekend, so I set up a calibre-web server (github.com/janeczku/cal...) on a Hetzner machine with #NixOS installed. #booksky

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

@chriskrycho.com @etorreborre.blog My LambdaConf talk was accepted. I'll be talking about the next generation of developer environments with @flox.dev

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

One of the most fun things you can do when you’re into #whiskey, #wine, #coffee etc is taste things blind. Without someone to pour for me I’ve made a bunch of blind samples and a few spreadsheets so that I can blind taste a bunch of stuff on my own.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Did a commute write this

submitted 65 days ago • 280 comments

Netlify gets the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering how to break causality

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

listen guys, we can't invade canada. we need canada. who are we going to pretend to be when when we travel in europe if not canadian?

submitted 69 days ago • 969 comments

Making some gifts for our excellent @flox.dev friends while watching some Wrath of Kahn like it’s 2025

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

@chriskrycho.com is there anything in the jj-verse that will show jj status in gutters in an editor, or do you use a colocated git repo if you want that?

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

New Years at a curling club in Wisconsin is a great way to spend New Years 1/2

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

As a recently diagnosed Autistic person, I’m constantly analyzing the things I struggle with. I think packing for trips is a big pain for me. Planning the trip? No problem. Predicting which situations/weather I’ll be in and how to dress for them? Brain in overdrive. #Autism #AuDHD

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like the U.S. already has a strategic Bitcoin reserve, the correct strategy being zero Bitcoins

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

Bit of a history lesson about who historically did the distilling. Spoiler but not a spoiler: it’s not (just) white dudes: youtu.be/jVsG84B3PEM?... #whiskey

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

It was a good year for #metal and I discovered a couple of kick ass bands (Parius, Nospun, Mur, etc)

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

`path_helper` on macOS is proof that the devil is real and is unhappy with us

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments