Nix:

• Farid Zakaria’s trynix lets you Review a pull request by booting it.
• Pierre Penninckx’s Ultimate dev environment for Playwright NixOS VM tests shows how to do complex web app testing while iterating fast.
• Leah Amelia Chen encourages the community to not feed the trolls in Don't Give Them the Time of Day.

LLMs:

• Bryan Cantrill encourages everyone, including anyone not comfortable with their writing level, to avoid handing the job to an LLM in Your intellectual fly is open.
• Terence Tao explains that “What is the answer to X?”, which LLMs can sometimes do, is not the same as “What can be learned from studying X?”, which is why we still need human mathematicians.

Misc:

• Dan Davies showcases a more useful metaphor than “technical debt” in heaps in the way.
• Dalia Sinclair explains some fundamentals clearly in You Need To Understand Environments and You Need To Understand Functions.
• Ryan Glover explains how the unique flexibility of software can drive developers to change things for really bad reasons in Software Drives People Insane.
• Abhishek Prakash reports that Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft [with Linux] on 3,000 Computers to promote digital sovereignty.