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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 29/04/2025

In the meantime, Determinate Nix 3.4.1 helps you upgrade more successfully. Where it used to crash out on a ridiculous error, now it _tells you_ that you have to log in.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 29/01/2025

Hey @quinnypig.com, is it possible AWS support actually gets >500 cases per second? At that rate, is it better to send a thank you reply, or is it more polite to silently resolve closed tickets to avoid extra messages?

Two AWS support tickets opened in the same second, with their case ID being different by over 500.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 08/01/2025

It’s my favorite time of year: when the garage windex freezes solid.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 30/12/2024

I know, I know. Chili is traditionally vegan but sometimes I like to throw a little bit of ground meat in.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 27/12/2024

Evidently this is the holiday I learn Swift and SwiftUI. forums.swift.org/t/my-swiftui...

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 25/12/2024

Get you a partner who looks at you like my four year old looks at his vacuum.

A four year old absolutely in love with his new red dirt devil vibe 3-in-1 vacuum.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 25/12/2024

I’m pretty sure this thing evolved from some kind of flightless manicotti.

A toy for verynuou ch children with lots of dangly bits, looks a little like a Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 24/12/2024

macOS dev skeeters, why doesn’t my menu bar extra item appear? 😭

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 16/12/2024

Web friends, can you help me make Firefox do what I want? In Chrome, this text copies and pastes as "helloworld!" which I like. Any tips on getting Firefox to do the same thing? Right now Firefox pastes as: hello world! Codepen: codepen.io/gchristensen...

<pre><span>hello</span><br style="user-select: none"/><span>world!</span></pre>

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 12/12/2024

Crazy that Apple went from to

Just the cpu and cooler of a G5, with a huge heatsink

The current Mac Mini, much smaller than a hand

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 25/11/2024

The internet gremlins sure are out in spades. PostHog, Fly, even freaking Outlook.

Posthog: somewhat unavailable during a storage upgrade.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 25/11/2024

Determinate.pkg devlog #5: * Upgrade or migrate to Determinate. * Auto-migrate to Sequoia-compatible UIDs. * Solves all but one remaining, known failure. Help us out, make sure it works for you: install.determinate.systems/determinate-... Docs: docs.determinate.systems/getting-star...

The Determinate installer on macOS, showing a notice that Nix is already installed, and that they can migrate to Determinate.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 24/11/2024

Oh no: someone hit an error, but we explicitly check for that scenario. Meaning somehow our check is not sufficient. Lets go.

Apollo 13 scene where they’re dumping out everything on the table they can use to fit the square co2 scrubber in the round hole.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 24/11/2024

🙏 I’m so glad for that! I was just reminded of that issue (github.com/NixOS/nix/is...) and I’m like:

Walt from breaking bad, yelling from inside a car. Meme.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 21/11/2024

Today I'm remembering the 74 dead in the US, and 427 across the world. #TDoR

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 15/11/2024

Gotta say I'm sad to see Equinix Metal shutting down. I miss the energy of Packet, though.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 10/11/2024

That face when you’re all three levels of on call.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 22/10/2024

Now that I’m a YouTuber I should probably record some videos idk

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 22/11/2023

BlueSky, today's date is not a sane default for a birthday selector 🤣

"My Birthday" form, defaulting to today's date.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 24/08/2023

And the evidence is in the adoption, where the old ways are actively shrinking while flakes are growing.

New projects using Nix on GitHub, per day, with flakes growing significantly over the last year and "the old way" stagnant.

A chart over time of the repositories that sourcegraph indexes, showing default.nix/shell.nix is relatively flat or dropping, with flakes growing rather rapidly.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 01/08/2023

The last time the government tried to take something away from Texas, Texas said “come and take it!” so the US came and took it and Texas was cool with it.

Shows a map of Texas with the chunk it gave up to Oklahoma so Texas could keep doing slavery.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 25/07/2023

anyway he made an oscillating fan yesterday

Toddler with a water bottle and a bowl on top of it.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 06/07/2023

This is the ideal 20M radiating body, I assume.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 29/05/2023

This would be a funny way to quit Twitter.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 14/05/2023

What is a high T acct? Is it what I think it is? Because I’m pretty sure I’m middling T at most.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 13/05/2023

How about a blue sky skeet?

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 05/05/2023

The bsky team has decided: they are officially tweets.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 04/05/2023

NOW eat. Tada! It’s easy. Easier than frying eggs in cast iron.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 04/05/2023

Before you eat actually, dip the cloth in the hot water, dump out the pan, and wipe out the otherwise very annoyingly sticky egg protein.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 04/05/2023

Pick them up with your fingers, put it on your toast, pluck off ugly bits, season, and eat. It’s easy! You can’t fuck it up!

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 04/05/2023

When you think they’re done put them on a cloth, flip them over, and tuck them in to stay warm while your English muffin finishes toasting.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 04/05/2023

Periodically stir them a bit. Once they start to look like self contained balls lift them out and poke them with your finger. You’ll figure out when it feels right.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 04/05/2023

Give it a little stir and drop your next egg in. Agitate it, get them off the bottom once. It’ll look like shit but keep going.

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Graham Christensen @grahamc.com · 04/05/2023

Ok. Poaching eggs. The first rule is relax you can’t mess this up. Add some salt maybe a splash of vinegar and a 2-3 inches of water. Make it hot. Light simmer is good. Crack your eggs into little bowls/cups. Drop an egg in, no technique here.