Back at the office for my weekly visit. Planning to ramp up to two or three times a week as we get further into spring and hopefully ebike commuting most of the time.

Still snowing and weirdly melting on our driveway but sticking everywhere else in our neighborhood.

Set up a couple more of our kids with their own Minecraft accounts yesterday. They’ve been playing on a shared iPad for a few years and they’ve been clamoring to level up to the computer version like their older siblings for a while now.

Looks like snow is hitting the Spokane area again this morning but my neighborhood is just getting barely visible flurries for the moment. I wouldn’t mind not having to shovel the driveway today, we’ll see how things shake out.

Ephemeral macOS builds with Buildkite, Nix, and Tailscale - Buildkite Blog
Speaking of Determinant Systems, their custom, rack-mounted in someone’s basement, Nix-backed macOS build system is pretty sweet! Being able to spin up freshly provisioned Macs quickly for automated builds and testing, then wipe and shutdown (awaiting next job) is super clever.

Started looking at Zero to Nix and learning more about Nix today. Cross platform package management (and more) is really appealing to me and the fact that Martin Wimpress (of Ubuntu MATE fame) recently joined Determinant Systems to specifically work on Nix is a pretty solid endorsement to me.