synoptik

It occurs to me that all of this hacking seems incredible because people who don't make software don't know how poorly it is made. People don't validate user input, or know the least of efficiency of data structures and how a "massive" request of 50 concurrent users can bring down their application.

NixOS is very much a toolkit for building operating systems. You in modules that set up parts of the system with overridable defaults, and you focus on the parts that matter. Sometimes that is the disk layout, other times it is the dot files, yet other times it is the services.

Adding a new domain to my NixOS webserver is a single line of code.

Project README.md Install instructions: List of software to install and what those packages are called on different distributions: Just kidding, it just works.

More exactly:

If your roommate attended a protest where someone got shot, and you transported their zines that indicate your roommate shares political ideology with the shooter, is anyone really under the impression this is not criminal in nature?

And yes, that’s not criminal.