| 13 Mar 2026 |
 flokli | In reply to @raitobezarius:matrix.org
i think the biggest annoyance about gRPC is that it mandates HTTP2 on the wire and it's so annoying Hey, it could be worse. Like varlink over the network. | 15:17:42 |
 raitobezarius | let's not talk about varlink | 15:17:54 |
| flokli | Oh wait | 15:18:02 |
| raitobezarius | also varlink is more like a channel for control planes than data planes | 15:18:25 |
| raitobezarius | but i want off the gRPC wild ride, the Nix daemon bespoke protocol wild ride, the SSH as a high performance data plane wild ride and the Varlink wild ride please | 15:18:55 |
| raitobezarius | (and cap'n'proto is not even perfect, i know) | 15:19:17 |
 piegames | I understand. The RPC migration is getting paid for by an NLNet grant, and I'm currently applying to NLNet for a bytecode/libexpr Rust migration grant | 15:23:56 |
| piegames | We might be able to do GSOC next year, but this year unfortunately there are not sufficient mentoring capacities | 15:24:24 |
| raitobezarius | I don't think Lisanna would need a GSoC student role as they're mentoring ;-) | 15:25:50 |
| raitobezarius | I don't know where you are based neither where you are aiming for a job, but the Lix community also has companies surrounding it in EU (mostly), not necessarily to work on Lix but to work with Lix on other topics; I knew in the past there were also US companies hiring in the Lix community as well | 15:27:24 |
| raitobezarius | But I understand the strategy | 15:27:33 |
 Lisanna | a lot of my background is low level C so honestly even just seeing stuff like conn << var is like "WOW that's so nice and convenient" for me a little bit still ^-^ | 15:27:55 |
| Lisanna | East coast US near DC, unable to move because of partner's in-person job (research reactor tech!), so unfortunately I'm mostly limited to remote. Doesn't have to be working directly on Nix or Lix, maintaining nix-based infra or build systems would also be killer | 15:30:37 |
| raitobezarius | i heard antithesis is hiring if that's your cup of tea | 15:32:45 |
| raitobezarius | i can throw in a referral | 15:32:52 |
| Lisanna | I'd be happy working at antithesis | 15:33:14 |
 Winter | ;-) | 15:33:15 |
| Lisanna | they already have a nix supergenius tho so what even are my chances lol | 15:35:04 |
| raitobezarius | winter would probably give a more direct referral ig | 15:35:10 |
| Winter | We are always strapped for people so the chances aren’t low!
IIRC you already applied in the past, right? (Let’s maybe move to DMs.)
| 15:36:56 |
| Winter | and ideally not on Matrix (you know how to reach me) bc i hate this platform too much | 15:38:57 |
 @rosssmyth:matrix.org | antithesis looks really cool but I do not want to move to VA | 18:46:07 |
| @rosssmyth:matrix.org | or sf | 18:46:54 |
| raitobezarius | Ah true they have a strong in person policy | 19:17:13 |
| raitobezarius | I forgot that | 19:17:15 |
| 15 Mar 2026 |
|  isabel changed their profile picture. | 20:54:47 |
| isabel changed their profile picture. | 20:55:03 |
| Lisanna | Tomorrow I think I will go through my merged nix PRs and port any applicable ones to Lix. Nothing too extravagant, just minor things. There are a few unmerged ones that are a bit more interesting, but I'll hold off on them for now in case they end up changing from review feedback. Later this week I'll probably join a Nix team meeting and bug them for reviews. | 23:11:13 |
| Lisanna | but feel free to comment on the unmerged ones in case there's anything applicable before I get them accepted and port them to Lix | 23:15:57 |
| 16 Mar 2026 |
|  draupnirchanged room power levels. | 10:16:20 |
