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Bottom Line: Filtering the macos logs for sandbox violations can help flesh out the root cause of sandbox-related crashes when building with nix.

Bottom Line: A little Python can help LLDB break on String contents in Rust.

Bottom Line: nix why-depends --derivation /run/current-system and nix derivation show --recursive /run/current-system are handy.

Bottom Line: Nix’s tooling for Rust compilation can target the ESP32.

Bottom Line: Nix makes cross-compiling Rust fairly straightforward.

Bottom Line: Failing to add MPS support to nixpkgs.python310Packages.torch.

Bottom Line: One can write a Firefox extension in (mostly) Python via Pyodide.

Bottom Line: Configure your VMs to start and run automatically on pfSense with vm-bhyve. 20251104 Update: Changed /boot/loader.conf to /boot/loader.conf.local thanks to @gmipf, based on https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/advanced-tunables.h…

Bottom Line: With some effort, I got VMs running on my pfSense router/firewall.

Bottom Line: I wrote a bash function to add packages directly from FreeBSD to pfSense.