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1 year ago
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on: Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
It (obviously) leverages Nix, which in turn means the environment is declarative and fully reproducible (not "reproducible" as in docker). Now, you can use just Nix's devShells, but with devenv you have a middleground between just Nix package manager and a full fledged NixOS module system. Basically, write out one line of code - and you've got your Postgres, another one - full linter set up for whatever language you're using, etc.
drakerossman
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1 year ago
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on: Hyprland Crash Course
drakerossman
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1 year ago
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on: Hyprland Crash Course
If you don't mind me replying in place of the orginal poster:
Sway is just i3 for Wayland, which in turn means you have multiple workspaces (which are also potentially mapped to multiple monitors). You assign workspace a label (number, or text, or emoji), and you may also bind some application to always open on that workspace. Or you just get a habit of putting specific applications to only specific workspaces. Your entire navigation then sits in your muscle memory - finger on the mod key (win or alt or ctrl - whatever), another finger on the digits row for the workspace index - and you're there.
It's a tiling WM, so you don't spend time arranging windows - they already take the full desktop real estate evenly split between them, and you can also adjust size of each window separately. Again, this sits in your muscle memory.
Point is - no mouse is needed to navigate through workspaces and windows.
You may read my blog post about setting sway up (on NixOS) here:
https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-con...
drakerossman
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1 year ago
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on: Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to $60B market cap
Who's their competition? What's their moat, except for being 15-minutes drive away from Nvidia's HQ?
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs
It now supports AMD GPUs since 3 weeks ago, check the latest commit at the repo:
https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA
The article also mentions exactly this fact.
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
A somewhat-shameless plug here, since I've released this just yesterday:
Browser Extension for Hacker News written in Rust WASM:
https://github.com/drakerossman/hackernews-userscript
It has filtering capabilities (filter in title, link, text, or username via regex) and softhide (hide all the items on a page without pulling others from the next page).
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Nix Home Manager Option Search
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way
Thank you for the feedback and kind words, and you're absolutely right. I have also gotten this feedback on improving my written communication skills already in the past.
I unfortunately have very little time to edit the posts, and for the stuff not yet posted, I do not like to post the drafts. And I have tons (tons!!!) of such drafts. A promise to myself I made is that I am going to have a good cadence of posting for this year.
There are definitely more articles to come, till end of January for sure, and if you've found the stuff useful/intersting, you may would want to subscribe on some medium I use (say Twitter, or Mastodon, links on my website).
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way
For the non-initiated, who also have experience with the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora, I made an overview of NixOS in this article, which also provides a guidance on how to bootstrap a functional desktop system:
https://drakerossman.com/blog/nixos-for-apt-yum-users-a-gift...Also discussing flakes in some other articles of mine.
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Impermanence
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://drakerossman.com
Mostly Nix/NixOS, some Rust, some management, some architecture. But mostly NixOS, for which I am writing a book.
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph
Thank you for your comment velcrovan, but I don't agree with this sentiment. I've been using Ubuntu for personal laptop for a decade, and whatever for a given corporate laptop, and was reluctant to dig into NixOS, until it clicked - the point is to have it done once, and you won't have to do it ever again! NixOS is the only one that allows so.
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Why and how to add Home Manager to NixOS
Thank you for pointing that out!
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Why and how to add Home Manager to NixOS
>If only.
Could you please elaborate?
drakerossman
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How to run Language Models on your own?
https://stateofart.ai/Disclosure: I am the author of the website, and it's extremely light on content currently.
drakerossman
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3 years ago
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on: 20 years of Nix
Yes, and was, to be quite honest, not quite impressed. They lay a foundation stone, but don't actually go that much further.
drakerossman
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3 years ago
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on: 20 years of Nix
Thank you for pointing that out! I have a twitter with the same handle, if you would like to subscribe to that. If not - wouldn't you mind a follow-up email when I fix the subscription form?
drakerossman
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3 years ago
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on: 20 years of Nix
What I see as a barrier for entry to Nix/NixOS is not the UX, but the available documentation, or lack of thereof. One may consider the docs being part of UX though. I am in the process of writing a book about NixOS, you may track the progress here:
https://drakerossman.com/blog/practical-nixos-the-bookThe emphasis is on how to make it as practical as possible, plus cover the topics which may apply to Linux in general, and in great detail.
