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Digging into Nix

I've heard good things about Nix. It's time to take it for a spin. abramowi at marcs-mbp-3 in ~ $ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install info: downloading installer...
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Plone and Zope time

Doing my yearly ritual of looking at Plone & Zope and making sure I still don't grok them. Check. In this year's installment, I set up a little Plone site and actually got as far as creating a custom content type. I started down...
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Carbonite woes

I’ve been using Carbonite for a while and it’s worked well most of this time (though how do you know if a backup tool is working?), but recently I’ve started to notice a few issues with it and I may end up...