Cedricgc
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Comment · 3 months ago
With stacking you can continue working on a longer change while creating reviewable diffs. Merged diffs can be rebased on your HEAD. For teams that support stacked diffs you don't usually even need to manage branches and work directly off trunk and rebase changes as they come in
Comment · 4 months ago
IIRC Go had to deal with a bunch of issue related to their initial source based package management system. The URL imports remain, but I believe fetches are served through the pkg.go.dev proxy now.
Andrew Nesbitt has a good write [0] up on why using Git as a database is a bad idea
[0] https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-gi...
Comment · 9 months ago
I should be specific. I think the technical analysis is reasonable and I actually enjoy someone staking on a big vision, which is why I saved these pieces.
An example:
"I’ve seen Grab’s hunger. I’ve felt it. I have it. This space is win or die. They will fight to the death, and I am with them. This company, with some 3000 employees I think, is more unified than I’ve seen with most 5-person companies. This is the kind of focused camaraderie, cooperation and discipline that you typically only see in the military, in times of war.
Which should hardly surprise you, because that’s exactly what this is. This is war.
I am giving everything I’ve got to help Grab win. I am all in. You’d be amazed at what you can accomplish when you’re all in."
This is the writing of someone planning to make a capstone career move instead of leaving in 18 months. It's not the worst thing to do (He says he left b/c the time difference to support a team in SE Asia was hard physically, and he's getting older) and I support taking big swings. I'm just saying Yegge's writing has a pattern.
Crypto and what Yegge is doing with $GAS is dangerous because if the token price crashes and people betting their life savings think he didn't deliver on his promises... I like Steve personally which is why I'm saying anything.
Comment · 9 months ago
I'm developing concern for Steve. He's been a well known developer and writer in the industry for years now (See his popular 'Google Platforms Rant' essay from years ago) [0].
Now, Yegge's writing tilts towards the grandoise... see his writing when joining Grab [1] and Sourcegraph [2] respectively versus how things actually played out.
I prefer optimism and I'm not anti AI by any means, but given his observed behavior and how AI can't exacerbate certain pathologies... not great. Adding the recent crypto activities on top and all that entails is the ingredients for a powder keg.
Hope someone is looking out for him.
[0] https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse452/23wi/papers...
[1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/why-i-left-google-to-join-gra...
Comment · 11 months ago
One nice thing if you work on the B2B software side - end of year is generally slow in terms of new deals. Definitely a good idea to schedule bug bashes, refactors, and general tech debt payments with greater buy in from the business
Comment · 1 year ago
The CUE configuration language uses OCI artifacts as the storage/distribution mechanism of its package manager
Comment · 1 year ago
Does this use the txtar format created for developing the go language?
I actually use txtar with a custom CLI to quickly copy multiple files to my clipboard and paste it into an LLM chat. I try not to get too far from the chat paradigm so I can stay flexible with which LLM provider I use
Comment · 2 years ago
Looking into this, could be very useful for working with personal Zotero archives of webpages
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm sure Meta will rename their project to accommodate the choo-choo train
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, derivations are the main primitive to target in an agnostic way
Main challenge is the value of the nixpkgs repo is enormous, and that looks tightly tied to Nix the language and its implicit constructs. I think instead of an FDI one would have to provide a true competitor that is more attractive on multiple dimensions like:
- reworking Nix as more a modular architecture (see Tvix: https://tvl.fyi/blog/rewriting-nix)
- Tackling a package repo and Nixos equivalent with day 1 reproducibility (not just repeatability) like https://reproducible-builds.org/
- Better UX experience on the "entrypoints" of Nix like home-manager and dev-shell flakes - I think CUE has some nicer language features for this and does not require figuring out derivation generation, just referencing the existing nixpkgs set
Comment · 4 years ago
Interested in hearing more about CUE+Nix
Considering the tight integration between Nix language v. Nixpkgs v. Nix program I mostly see CUE usable to generate data files but would eventually need to be consumed in a .nix config at some point
Comment · 4 years ago
Did you write nixery?
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