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I tried playing around with NixOS. Unfortunately I broke Plasma messing around trying to turn on Wayland. Flakes are why I stopped and likely won't go back. I

I tried playing around with NixOS. Unfortunately I broke Plasma messing around trying to turn on Wayland. Flakes are why I stopped and likely won't go back. I tried to add a flake that contained PragmataPro (a paid for font). Having a git repo was easy I just wouldn't push it anywhere to avoid copyright issues. Figuring out the syntax to actually get the font files installed was maddening. It probably didn't help that I followed best practices and built some crazy cross compilation mechanism into my flake but it was almost impossible to figure out how to extract a zip file and then copy to the final destination. Well unless I downloaded the zip file then it was trivial... Avoiding flakes except as an isolation point likely would have allowed me to stay engaged with the project. Might have to check this out if I ever feel the need again. Yeah looks like callPackage is what I needed.

drakerossman 3y ago
You may want to try this: https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-conquest-triumph https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-con...
- bomewish 3y ago
  I checked your site. It’s great you have the energy to promote and explain nix. I think you could get a lot out of that google course teaching technical writing. There were some other HN posts on technical writing recently too. You’re a technical writer now, if you didn’t know already, so it would be worth learning how to apply that skill well. You’ll get a lot more leverage for every input.
  - drakerossman 3y ago
    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).
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    - bomewish 3y ago
      Hm. Let's think about what your goal is here. Isn't it to communicate with an imagined reader? What would be the point of cranking out the content if it's basically... borderline unreadable, and therefore not fulfilling the purpose you want it to? I would say that if you slow down, learn more about how to communicate technical content, and consciously practice those skills, then you'll achieve both your immediate goal and gain a really useful life skill. Just my take! Best wishes on the journey. Oh and GPT4 could massively help with this stuff now too, so you may be able to just keep cranking it out like you already do, but get the bot to rewrite and properly structure it all. Many options.

drakerossman 3y ago

You may want to try this: https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-conquest-triumph https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-con...

bomewish 3y ago
I checked your site. It’s great you have the energy to promote and explain nix. I think you could get a lot out of that google course teaching technical writing. There were some other HN posts on technical writing recently too. You’re a technical writer now, if you didn’t know already, so it would be worth learning how to apply that skill well. You’ll get a lot more leverage for every input.
- drakerossman 3y ago
  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).
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  - bomewish 3y ago
    Hm. Let's think about what your goal is here. Isn't it to communicate with an imagined reader? What would be the point of cranking out the content if it's basically... borderline unreadable, and therefore not fulfilling the purpose you want it to? I would say that if you slow down, learn more about how to communicate technical content, and consciously practice those skills, then you'll achieve both your immediate goal and gain a really useful life skill. Just my take! Best wishes on the journey. Oh and GPT4 could massively help with this stuff now too, so you may be able to just keep cranking it out like you already do, but get the bot to rewrite and properly structure it all. Many options.