Nix
A package manager and build system built on reproducible, declarative package definitions, and the NixOS distribution built on it.
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- GR
Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Their wordsThe whole point of a CLI is to deliver intelligence with zero friction, and be unix-like.
- 3 weeks earlier
- RM
Ray Maker quoted
Reviews sports technology at DC Rainmaker — watches
Their wordsGiven this is almost certainly all the same codebase (like, literally, that's how it works now and is explicitly why the Fenix 8 is getting these features), that seems like the company is purposefully holding those features back to drive Fenix 9 sales.
↗Garmin Fenix 9 Series In-Depth Review: Worth the Upgrade?dcrainmaker.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
- AR
Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsA nix based Omarchy would be amazing. Want to see this!
- 2 days earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsMaybe Nix is like Rust: Amazing if you don't have to look at the code! I'm open to the idea that Omarchy Cinque could switch packaging system if I never have to look at nixlang, there are no ergonomic regressions, and we have full repo sovereignty.
- 7 weeks earlier
- BS
Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com
Their wordsAnother example is Bitcoin. It’s the Unix of money. You can send millions with a keystroke or rm your entire fortune. That’s more upside and more downside, by making people power users, and taking away the system administrator.
- 4 months earlier
- DP
Dylan Patel quoted
Founder and chief executive of SemiAnalysis
Their wordsUh, Micron bought a fab from a company in Taiwan that makes lagging edge chips, right? Um, Heinix and Samsung are doing, you know, some pretty crazy things to try and expand capacity at their existing fabs, uh, that also have like very large knock-on effects in the economy. And so, hey, why can't we build more capacity is like there's nowhere to put the tools, right?
↗Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI computeyoutube.com 19th of 28 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
- PS
Peter Steinberger quoted
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Their wordsI think the main beauty is, is that models are really good at calling Unix commands. So if you just add another CLI, that's just another Unix command in the end. And MCP is… That has to be added in training. That's not a very natural thing for the model. It requires a very specific syntax. And the biggest thing, it's not composable.
↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 19th of 30 in this recording
- 18 months earlier
- JE
Julia Evans quoted
Writes jvns.ca, a blog explaining networking
Our reading · no longer heldNix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.
No longer holdsI’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
SaidI’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
- 17 months earlier
- JE
Julia Evans quoted
Their wordsI’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.
- 3 years earlier
- AS
Arnold Schwarzenegger quoted
Austrian-born American bodybuilder
Their wordsNixon and Reagan understood the importance of California’s right to clean air, but some so-called Republicans today seem to only believe in states’ rights when it’s convenient, when the state voted for their party, or when the state is doing something really dumb.