We're generally in agreement, and at the risk of exposing my biases... nevermind, my biases are already exposed -- I discovered that wrapping the aliases inside

We're generally in agreement, and at the risk of exposing my biases... nevermind, my biases are already exposed -- I discovered that wrapping the aliases inside a shell.nix expression to be activated by running `nix-shell` has the added benefit of locking down the execution environment down to the compiler version. The most illuminating experience for me was doing this for a Python 2.7 project, cloning the repo, running nix-shell, and it Just Worked. I was shocked (in a good way)