Removing my nix flakes vs guix post

# im removing my nix flakes vs guix post Source: [https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/taking-down-nix-flakes-vs-guix](https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/taking-down-nix-flakes-vs-guix) if you're here looking for my "nix flakes and their guix equivalents" post, it's gone\. i deleted it\. this isn't a hate letter to andrew or anything like that\. i'm writing this because i want to make sure nobody thinks i deleted the post after getting "caught" for "using an llm"\. --- i wrote that post because i was curious about something and wanted to understand it better\. i researched it a lot — clearly not enough, but still\. i was proud of it\. i shared it with my friends because i thought it was cool and they might think so too\. just before eeping, i posted it in a few matrix chats\. i woke up, and it was apparently on the[front page of lobste\.rs](https://lobste.rs/s/fybei2/nix_flakes_their_guix_equivalents)\!\! i had never ever imagined any of my blog posts would get more than**three**interested users let alone the attention it had garnered now\. ludovic courtès — the literal founder of guix —[made a toot about it](https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/116739238432127929)that got twelve boosts\!\!\! i was so excited meoww\!\! and then it turned out a last\-minute javascript change i'd made had broken the site on mobile, and people couldn't even read it\. i fixed it as soon as it was brought to my attention\. but by then people were already frustrated, and i can't blame them\. the next day, i come back from work, and a friend shares a link: andrew tropin wrote a[review of my post](https://trop.in/blog/quick-review-of-nix-flakes-and-their-guix-equivalents)\. andrew tropin\. someone whose work i really respect\. i opened it so excited\. and three paragraphs in, he says he suspects i wrote it with an llm\. --- to be clear: i'm not upset about being critiqued\. i actually welcome that, especially from someone as knowledgeable as andrew\. what broke me was the accusation that i didn't write my own words\. and it's the very first thing he says — before any of the technical points, before any of the corrections, the very first thing i read is that i'm suspected of being fake\. if anyone is here expecting a response to the technical points of andrew's post, then i'm sorry but this isn't it\. i was too devastated to really process them\. i'm sure his criticisms are valid and correct, but i'm not really in the mood to engage right now\. what i can tell you is how that accusation made me feel\. i put a lot of effort into the infrastructure of this site\. i made[​`ox\-atom`​](https://codeberg.org/coopi/emacs-ox-atom)to power its feed\. i made[​`neocities\.el`​](https://codeberg.org/coopi/emacs-neocities)to talk to neocities\. i wrote the css and javascript by hand\. there's a cat in the background pattern\. the section headers have little sparkles\. the postamble says`~ meow ~`\. so after all that work, being told that arguably the most important part of my blog — the text, the part that's supposed to be*me*— sounds like it came from a fancier markov chain, was destroying\. i didn't use an llm\. but i cant prove a negative, and am anyways too tired to try\. --- so im taking the post down mraow :c