Nix is not there yet in terms of user friendliness. homebrew for linux is pretty awesome.

Only issue i have is that it creates a separate user and doesn’t support custom prefixes (their page says you are on your own if using custom prefixes). While their reasoning is sound, not having an easy way to know which programs will break if using custom prefix is a bummer for me at work.

And now in my late twenties, suckless terminal is the only one that would work reliably on a shitty old enterprise linux system at work. Yeah, we got xterm and konsole (the older one). I am seeing them in a whole different light now. I did not read the source code now and it is effectively a foreign language to me, but just being able to have modern features in it without too many dependencies is a different level of bliss. This time, I am glad I have the flexi patch to the rescue since, i passed on suckless terminal as a real alternative since I don’t want to patch it manually or solve merge conflicts!

Even though I don’t like the elitist attitude of the project, can’t deny they got a point. Why does a terminal emulator need to be so complicated!

https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch

If someone in this domain of web-design can help me clarify what do i call these single file static HTML webpages which are fully offline (after the first js/css query to the cdn) which can be hosted from a github pages website without doing a NPM install? Is PWA the correct term, since it seems PWA is superset of whatever this is.

I always liked these websites for air-gapped setups since they are portable and simonw seemed to have reignited the passion for people sharing them on hn and elsewhere. I also started liking pyscript since it seemed accessible than javascript for debugging compared to llm written js.

But in a my short two years in Analog IC design industry, i have been so divorced from the actual silicon that I rarely got a chance yet to go in lab and probe around the teeny tiny block I worked on in the complex labyrinth of the SoC. I don’t wish for it (I learnt the hard way, be careful what you wish for; and in this case, if I am in lab debugging something in silicon, means something terrible has happened to what I worked on and it might have cost the company about $200k or more), but someday soon i will get into the lab just to play around with the fancy ass oscilloscope.

In the meanwhile, I did realize the invaluable power of having a python frontend API for querying basic details of your devices. (Python and not SKILL/Lisp since it pretty much works with any AI, and is very well worked on) and AI has been okayish with it. I feel AI would be a good aid in actual circuit design if it understood the Topology of the circuit, which at this point I am tempted to say might require something akin to AST but for SPICE. However, AI has been awesome at regexes and scripting which is also the meh and boring part of the circuit design process.