NixOS is a Linux distribution configured using Nix. It is declarative, meaning that the entire system state can be defined in a single
.nixfile; and reproducible, meaning you can have multiple computers set up identically.
Source: NixOS for the Impatient, an article by Fernando Borretti.
Once you ship your software, most of your end users will be better served by replacing the stack trace with some actionable error message in case of a crash.
Choosing good test cases for our Go programs can be a bit hit-and-miss. Sometimes we get lucky and find an input that causes incorrect behaviour, or even a crash, but in general, picking inputs at random isn’t a good way to find bugs.
Or is it? What if we leaned into that idea a little and used a lot of different inputs? Say, a million, or even a billion. With that many inputs, our chances of finding the one weird value that triggers a problem start to look pretty good.
Source: Random testing in Go, an article by John Arundel.
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
In the evening Alice and I watched Grown Ups. I had seen the movie before. I liked it and give it a 7 out of 10.