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Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best. One common way of doing that is to list the pros and cons of each option. For example, option A lists low latency as a pro, while option B lists high throughput as a pro. But do you know what throughput option A provides? Not being explicit makes it easy to make assumptions and ignore crucial comparisons.
a year ago

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Conquer dev environments with Nix

I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL, a couple of Raspberry PIs, and so on. I have a bunch of tools I like to have at my fingertips when I log into a machine, like fd and Neovim. Setting up and maintaining the same configuration across all of my machines using different package managers was painful enough that I just reverted using default tools with no customization in the past.

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