I spend a lot of time behind a computer-- these are various tricks that I’ve put together to try and keep sane.
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Reproducible Builds Using Nix
Ported from the original Sphinx + ablog source onto mystmd. ablog’s
.. post:: block became frontmatter, and .. update:: (which used
free-form English dates) is now this directive with strict ISO-8601 dates.
Before I was a scientist, I worked for UnixOps supporting research computing — mainly building software. The fact that the University of Colorado, Boulder campus needed almost a dozen system admins to build and rebuild software tells you something about how much of a hassle it is; builds are often cryptic, requirements conflict, and things constantly break between versions.