Interview with CTO of ListenField AgTech: Introducing NixOS to Organization
I had a fortune to interview the CTO of ListenField - David Hagege, who also happens to be a recent subscriber to my newsletter.
ListenField is a Japan-based Agricultural Technology Startup with the mission to help farmers increase their productivity and income while reducing their environmental impact.
I'm using NixOS on all my machines. This is I would say the biggest problem with NixOS - when you start to use it, you can hardly go back to anything else. Nix is replacing so many tools and solving so many headaches. Instead of having to remember a dozen of configuration file formats and tools, I learn Nix once and can configure my whole environment the same way on all my machines. Nix makes stuff like rvm, nvm, Ansible, Docker, and many others a thing from the past. Every single configuration of my system is present in my NixOS configuration, down to the scrolling behavior of my touchpad (i.e libinput.touchpad.naturalScrolling = false;). It also makes experimentation on your system a breeze. I know that any change I make, I can revert in a second.
The goal of our product is to assist farmers and agronomists in optimizing the use of their farmland. We are using satellite images, sensor data and other sources to predict at which date their crops will reach maturity, how much yield they will get, how sweet their crops will be, how they can reduce their fertilizer use, and numerous other farming-related insights.
