pherlo

My nonGMO son was at a wholesome summer camp and came home with the sniffles. died. jk recovered same day. Two days after that, being two days ago, I developed a sore throat. Next day headache and worse sore throat, low fever. hard to swallow, so didn't want to eat. soreness mostly went away that evening. Was a bit harder to smell the homestead homemade garlic hummus we had this morning, but not impossible.

Today, i'm on the mend working and shit, but since we have a lifetime supply of covid rapid tests (aside: because my local martial arts gym was cool and let me flaunt the testing rules in Canada and just self-test before coming since enforcing the provincial sanctioned testing app would

So if i go to front page and click a self-post, everything scrolls really slowly and reddit feels like a turd (< 5fps). If I hit refresh, the page is suddenly ok (60fps locked scrolling). Perhaps related to not cleaning up the previous page when clicking to comments since the old page remains visible in the background when I click?

Anyway, I've gotten into the habit of just refreshing every time to fix this issue.

So I am investigating using Nix/NixOS to build/deploy a ruby application. (By the way I have no idea what the canonical way to do that is right now) but somewhere along the way a thought occurred to me, and wanted to run it by other people. I'll start with ruby but there is more below.

Why not build a parallel universe for ruby packages that actually abandons ruby gems, and just packages raw ruby code in some semi-standardized source tree? Then use nix to manage the dependencies between them, and have the nix expression place all dependencies into the $LOAD_PATH of the depending package automatically? One simply specifies dependencies for the app, and all of the relevant code appears on