There are forks of Nix. Perhaps you might like Lix.

I wish business “journalists” would stop calling these 10 year old companies “startups”.

It’s like calling that 10-12 year old kid who was still breastfeeding on Game of Thrones “my baby”.

They did this with Uber, AirBnb, & Spotify as well.

This comic reminds me of the edits people do on short form video like TikTok to make a video end on the same beat that began it.

Not quite the same though. Making a tight loop rather than actual recursion.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology 🙂

Bookshop.org also has a DRM-free search filter and shares profits with local bookstores.

I’ve seen semantic commits done with emojis which is cute but also annoying, because they’re not as easy to type or grep for.

Semantic commits can be nice, but they can also invite bikeshedding about what’s a “feature” and what’s a “bug fix”, etc.

Not saying they aren’t nice, and if folks are using them and liking them, keep going. But if you haven’t used them before on a team, then just be aware that’s a thing than can happen.

Love it.

While folks are thinking about git commit messages I will offer this.

https://cbea.ms/git-commit/

My only criticism of the essay is that the most important bit is listed at number 7.

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/114626836191477766

If we can copy/paste an image, surely we can also do so for a source link.

Ward Cunningham has written a federated wiki.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/

https://github.com/fedwiki

http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors

I recently learned to use my microwave’s “Reheat” feature and have been getting pretty good results. (I have not tested on bricks of frozen lasagna, though.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss

You may want to also consider a Redox, which is a smaller, more compact version of the ErgoDox.

https://github.com/mattdibi/redox-keyboard

FalbaTech sells parts and pre-builds. https://falbatech.click/

Glad I could help. 🙂

Borgmatic is an automation tool for Borg. It has hooks for database backups.

https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/backup-your-databases/

Also check out BazQux. Presents as a Fever API endpoint so it works with many RSS clients like Unread or NetNewsWire.

Self-hosters should know about FreshRSS.