zaps

Getting “Lost” vibes

Nix seems great for terminal-based development environments where starting a nix-shell sets up all the proper symlinks, env vars, etc. But how does this translate to IDEs like VSCode or IntelliJ? Like if you clone a repo with a shell.nix file, how does the IDE know to use that environment when you, say, use the File > Debug command, instead of executing whatever toolchain that happens to be on your path? Are there plugins available that enable this? I realize you could just open a terminal within the IDE, start a nix shell, and run the equivalent run/debug/etc commands, but I am curious if anything exists to make the experience seamless to the user.

DITA or GTFO

Switching to full-on Dirty Hippie mode here but, goddammit why why WHY can’t we just have nice things without profit motives or acquisitions or shareholders or growth hacking and just enjoy the ride and the gifts that these kinds of resources give to the world? Why is the default setting “always sell out”?

IUMA was the Bandcamp of the early aughts. It was THE place to go for discovering new exciting music that you never knew could exist, the equivalent of listening to pop radio all the time and then one day turning the knob left to the local college station. (“What is this?” “It’s NEW.”) This was what the internet was FOR—accessing the inaccessible. Then some corporation bought it and smashed it into ash.

I get it, really. I’m naive af. People need to eat. Infrastructure isn’t free. Licenses need to be licensed. But fuck, I’d rather these sites never existed in the first place than have my heart broken like some middle schooler seeing their crush dancing with the rich kid.

MS used their own AI to create a mashup of Andy Cohen and John Malkovich and called it Jeff Teper

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-bl...

So it’s tea without the blockchain part?

“…for two reasons: 1) NAR policies requiring a fee for the buyer’s agent on every listing 2) a pattern of alleged sexual harassment.”

That escalated quickly.

I could see myself taking a ride on my Motocompacto down to the Rancho Relaxo

Just use sqlite amirite

Correct. It’s not YAML’s fault that the parsers haven’t caught up to its fixes.

Instead of the food my 12 year old mind goes directly to “Open to eff you”

According to witnesses at the hearing he also “crossed his heart and hoped to die”

TIL PC Pro Magazine is too cheap to get a pro Slack subscription

snotty

This. Old fogey over here too, and I would have stopped listening to any new music 15 years ago had it not been for streaming and recommendation algorithms.

‘You don't have to be falling to feel the "fall"’ is the Zennest thing I’ve ever read

Super-naive take: why are people such jerks?

This is the best worst thing I’ve ever seen

Welp there goes my afternoon

The documentary “Command and Control” [1] about the 1980 Damascus, AR, incident is more terrifying than any horror movie you will ever see. [1] https://youtu.be/ZCPlm-mQ9Kk

> git, for all its issues, is not bundling the kitchen sink

In my experience, installing git on most Linux distros pulls in a bunch of perl dependencies

Comments confirmed—Python packaging is broken

Caption…

Or 90s hotornot.com

A new kind of new kind

S-s-s-somethin from the comments

Cliff was the music nerd of the group, James especially leaned on him to learn a lot of theory

Someone tell Sonatype about ‘.nexus’

In any other decade that sentence would make no sense