Yup, the Ian Knot and the Secure Knot (https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm) have taken over my household. The latter is particularly good for kids, who often learn the "bunny ears" method, but then switch to double-knotting and all the attendant untangling hassle.

Yes, Nix is totally viable. Steep learning curve, but many benefits.

Presumably etags/gtags/hasktags etc., ie. having built a TAGS database for such a helper program, you can use it in an editor to jump from a field name to its definition. That wouldn't be the case with a lens accessor.

I wrote a simple solution for this which is used in production at several businesses now: https://github.com/purcell/postgresql-migrations/

You can control which categories of ads will be displayed in your Adsense account settings. It shouldn't be necessary in a civilised world, of course, but there you go.

Author here. I answered this and other questions in discussions on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/8ye1h0/explaining_...

Author here. The blog is for my personal brand, because I often work independently, but I was employed full-time as lead architect for this venture.

Author here - thanks very much. That was what I was going for.

Check to see if the battery is swollen -- that happened a lot with those machines, and typically interfered with the trackpad click.

Yup, had this with my 2006 MacBook, and a new battery fixed it.

(Incidentally, when I last went to buy a replacement battery from an Apple Store, they wouldn't let me install it myself even though the polycarbonate MacBooks had user replaceable batteries. They insisted I bring in my MacBook and leave it with them overnight to have a Genius install it. I ended up cancelling it and getting a NewerTech battery replacement, which is both cheaper & has better battery life than the Apple model.)

I had the Skerton. The Porlex Mini is better in every way.