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James Ross explains how LLM slop is causing projects to close their doors to outside contributors and migrate from GitHub to other code forges in Open Source as We Know It Is Dead.

Or, how to treat other humans as such, in an age of generated text. 0.

Testing is all about return on investment: how do we maintain an acceptable level of trust in the code with the least amount of effort?

Creating a Nix shell for Rust development is easy if you’re prepared to either use only stable Rust or use Rustup to manage your Rust toolchain.

Wherein a random nerd tries and fails to combine “Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models” code and data to reproduce research.

Desktop notifications are a nice way to be informed immediately about important changes on your system.

Or: Load balancing remote builders with pseudorandom numbers.

Remote builds are one of the biggest superpowers of Nix.

No code is perfect, so it’s useful to limit its potential for doing harm. systemd provides a system call filter which we can use to do just that, but it’s easy to limit it so much that it breaks the service.

nixf-tidy (introduction, docs) is a simple Nix linter CLI tool which takes Nix code on standard input and emits a JSON array of issues.

In Treadmill vs.