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digital assembly lines:
  • gem
  • maven
  • npm
  • cargo
The best place to sabotage, just like in factories.
100 sats \ 6 replies \ @kr OP 8h
I don't know what any of those words mean
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 8h
Dependency managers for software development where you basically say "I want some software that does X" and then you call the package instead of implementing your own code for X.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 8h
I see, so sort of like the physical equivalent of getting someone else's factory to teleport into your own factory to provide a widget instead of making it yourself?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 8h
Yeah, like outsourcing / supply chain. Instead of manufacturing your own nuts and bolts, you buy 'em and assemble your product on the line where you mix in these with components you made yourself.
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 7h
lmao
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lol
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 4h
Exactly
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120 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lumor 7h
Never used Ansible, but it seems to be somewhat in this dimension, recipes for assembling a system.
NixOS takes it one step further through being more declarative/functional rather than imperative as I understand it.
Both of the above are text files describing the components of a system, described by humans and then fulfilled by the computer.

Though I think @kr may be looking for some kind of framing for the human in doing vaguely similar tasks. Ways of minimizing distraction. Feels like virtual desktops was trying to solve part of that problem, but I never use them.
We're still waiting for the industrial revolution to fully unfold in the digital world.. still wallowing about as romantic artisans.
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My first thought too, though it was pip, then docker that came to mind for me
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Oh! Dockerfile - yes, good one! Despite it not always being useful to me (in those cases I write packer/terraform hcl for lxc), it really is the nicest container building format out there.
Not sure why I forgot about pip - especially since with uv you get a nice lockfile too nowadays.
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