Luc Perkins
@lucperkins.dev
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Nix advocate
@determinate.systems
. Buenos Aires 🇦🇷.
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Luc Perkins
ParadeDB
2 days ago
We're excited to announce the release of v0.20.0. This release brings: - Official support for accelerated facets in ParadeDB - An order of magnitude improvement to our write throughput - A brand new SQL interface that's more SQL-native and ORM-friendly
www.paradedb.com/blog/paraded...
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Blog
Engineering deep dives, product and company announcements, and guides from the ParadeDB team.
https://www.paradedb.com/blog/paradedb-0-20-0
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God bless Argentina 🇦🇷 and its cheap over-the-counter albuterol
3 days ago
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Sonatype Nexus and Artifactory feel so cruft-y and last-gen. We need a refresh there.
4 days ago
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=93QC...
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Trump Is On The Epstein List
YouTube video by Maxx Starburst - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93QCH4Uu7jE&list=RD93QCH4Uu7jE
7 days ago
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This UK concert ticket policy is such a disaster lol
10 days ago
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Now here’s some legislation that people are going to HATE when the unintended consequences kick in
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/nov/17/reselling-tickets-for-profit-to-be-outlawed-in-uk-government-crackdown?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
11 days ago
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I'm now in my second Airbnb in a row in which I'll need to spend an entire month wearing noise-cancelling headphones every second I'm in my room, even when I'm asleep, due to gunshot-sounding door slams hundreds of times a day
12 days ago
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An unsatisfying but maybe correct perspective on why straight romance and dating are so fucked now is that men and women are very different and when you take away institutions and norms that cajole them into monogamous relationships they generally just nope out of the whole thing
21 days ago
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Status update: “love too” is still very funny
21 days ago
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Anyone want to buy the domain
katesbu.sh
? Bought it as an inside joke, will sell for cheap.
23 days ago
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“Sympathy is a knife” is pretty much the song of the decade 🔪
27 days ago
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I've decided to undergo Lacanian analysis
29 days ago
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Luc Perkins
Martin Concagh
about 1 month ago
Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust Finance? By Bernie Madoff, Jeff Skilling, Martin Schrkeli and Sam Bankman-Fried
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GitHub Markdown not supporting things like line numbers/highlighting in code samples is so budget
about 1 month ago
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I'm working on an MCP server for
@determinate.systems
. I got FlakeHub search working really well 🚀 Any other capabilities you'd want to see?
about 1 month ago
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This recent uptick in “it/its” pronouns seems… not good?
about 1 month ago
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“Love too” is still funny
about 1 month ago
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A fresh set of Tinder pics, courtesy of No Kings
about 1 month ago
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BIG DUMPER đź›»
about 1 month ago
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If any of you would be interested in a private
crates.io
that runs on
@cloudflare.social
Workers (plus D1 and R2) and has JWT-based auth, get in touch. A fun weekend project that could become more.
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crates.io: Rust Package Registry
https://crates.io
about 1 month ago
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Sure do hate inadvertently renting an Airbnb that fucking SUCKS and being stuck there for an entire month
about 1 month ago
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At
@determinate.systems
we have an internal website that uses Nix as an HTML templating engine. Based or cursed?
about 1 month ago
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The gringos are not sending their best people to MedellĂn
about 2 months ago
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builtins.justTrustMeBro
about 2 months ago
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You really have to wonder how much Nix drama could be avoided by people using their real names and pictures
about 2 months ago
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IST airport sure is one big thoroughfare of humanity
about 2 months ago
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IST airport sure is one big thoroughfare of humanity
about 2 months ago
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Nobody at the airport has ever been to the airport
about 2 months ago
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Café culture in Prague is 💯
2 months ago
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Guys out here hitting .250 with 55 bombs like God intended
2 months ago
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Something so utterly vacuous about Threads. Legitimately ghoulish place.
2 months ago
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reposted by
Luc Perkins
Determinate Systems
2 months ago
Determinate Nix has been quite the ride so far! In this new post, we recap recent additions like parallel eval, Linux builds on macOS, and lazy trees and tease upcoming features, like configurable flakes and flake schemas, that will open up bold horizons in Nix.
determinate.systems/blog/determi...
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Determinate Nix: the recent past and the shining future
Taking a step back to survey the many recent changes in Determinate Nix and to look ahead to much more on the way.
https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-recap/
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Next.js is pretty much just an appalling software project
2 months ago
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I need an away message for Instagram. “I am not taking forwarded memes at this time”
3 months ago
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In hindsight, I should’ve gotten mortgage forgiveness and taken most of 2020 off. Insane that I made myself be a Productive Citizen under such crushingly lonely conditions.
3 months ago
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Banksy is the most basic shit ever, sorry
3 months ago
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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NASA finds Titan’s alien lakes may be creating primitive cells
Saturn’s moon Titan may be more alive with possibilities than we thought. New NASA research suggests that in Titan’s freezing methane and ethane lakes, simple molecules could naturally arrange themsel...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250831112449.htm
3 months ago
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Thing I did not have on my life bingo card: Deftones being relevant for 30 years
3 months ago
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www.simonandschuster.com/books/107-Da...
So very embarrassing
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107 Days
For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presiden...
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/107-Days/Kamala-Harris/9781668211656
3 months ago
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Serbia has cigarette smoke everywhere and I kind of like it
3 months ago
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Muse is not a good band
3 months ago
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How long until all of these musical artists pulling their music from streaming services come crawling back? Weeks? Months?
3 months ago
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Thinking about doing a Netflix comedy special about how you can’t say anything anymore and no one can take a joke
4 months ago
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Portland is the place where the collapse of so-called third spaces feels the most dire
4 months ago
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I have now seen the world’s two most important Lord Byron statues
4 months ago
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The spelling of the word "capabilities" feels very wrong to me today
4 months ago
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I'm so excited to get this out into the world
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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Headlights are now so bright that I as a blue-eyed person have to wear sunglasses walking around cities at night
4 months ago
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As far as voyages go, I can’t say that Tbilisi to Chieti, Italy is one that I’d recommend in a single day
4 months ago
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I only let myself drink Coke about once a month and let me tell you, it is the highlight of my month
4 months ago
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