Nix Flakes allow us not just to precisely specify TeX Live packages we need to build our document, but also to include external resources as additional dependencies. By pinning the versions of our inputs in
flake.lock, it guarantees us that the document can be reproducibly built anywhere.
Source: Exploring Nix Flakes: Build LaTeX Documents Reproducibly.
In this post I look at how you can split a repository in two, creating a "history" repository, and a current repository, while retaining the ability to temporarily merge them again when required. This is made possible by the git-replace tool.
Source: Reducing the size of a git repository with git-replace, an article by Andrew Lock.
This is a look back at the huge progress that has been made since Go 1 released and what I'd consider to be the headline features of Go 2. This is a whirlwind tour of the huge progress in improvement to the Go compiler, toolchain, and standard library, including what I'd consider to be the headline features of Go 2. I highly encourage you read this fairly large post in chunks because it will feel like a lot if you read it all at once.
Source: We Already Have Go 2, an article by Christine Dodrill.