Hey I’m Elise! I’m a bike nomad and I’m developing a libre platform called Blossom, à la Second Life. I’m currently studying Français and I enjoy making people laugh 😜

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Cake day: July 30th, 2023
  • Actually game dev is quite a social thing. You are constantly communicating with people, having meetings, and pair programming is a thing. In fact one of the reasons I went solo is because I wanted to save my social energy for my free time.

    Why I code? Well, it’s just a craft like any other, like drawing, gardening, or sewing. I used to work with wood actually as a child, but I never had enough material because it was expensive. On the computer I could create the same sort of stuff but for free. It’s fun to create.

  • Changes to a declarative operating system, such as NixOS, are atomic. This allows for easy experimentation and rolling back to older configurations.

    For example say you install gimp for editing photos. Normally you’d just install it using command line or a clickidity gui program. But say you don’t like it. Maybe it causes an issue. Then you have to uninstall it again. You are applying yet another action to the same system. That system is mutable, or modifiable, and that introduces some extra complexity.

    With NixOS you can simply roll back to the previous state you had before installing it. It also doesn’t have to support stuff like uninstalling. The downside is that it likely uses a bit more resources when changing configurations.

    This also applies to stuff like user management, services, e.g. a webserver.

    Any experts correct me if I am wrong, I haven’t tried any of these systems yet.