Arkh4m

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by Arkh4m 5y ago
There is no need to literally fork the nixpkgs repo. Most language derivations were written with the idea of supporting multiple versions at the same time. In this guide ( https://www.breakds.org/post/nix-shell-for-nodej
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by Arkh4m 5y ago
That's the point: without using Nix, you'd have to do LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacking to have two programs use two different versions of glibc. When people say "oh nix looks so complicated I can do this using bash scripts" I rep
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by Arkh4m 5y ago
Then you'd have to learn to read Nix expressions. The original expression that builds all ruby versions is here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/6120ac5cd201f6cb593d1b... Here's an example tha
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by Arkh4m 5y ago
Here is an example of doing what you want https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5... I found the nixpkgs versions using this tool: https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?channel=n
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by Arkh4m 5y ago
Here is an example if you absolutely want to pin Ruby to 2.6.7 while pulling all other packages from a more recent set of packages https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5... I found the nixpkgs ver
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by Arkh4m 5y ago
Here's an example https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5... I used this tool to find the specific nixpkgs version https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?channel=nixpkgs-unst
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by Arkh4m 5y ago
Here is an example if you absolutely want to pin Ruby to 2.6.7 while pulling all other packages from a more recent set of packages https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5... I found the nixpkgs ver
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by Arkh4m 5y ago
First, dependency manager vs package manager. Potayto potatoh. Second. The reason I recommend direnv is because of ergonomics, so you don't have to remember to reload your shell. Most current version managers either do it themselves th
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Ditch your version manager(juliu.is)
167 points by Arkh4m 5y ago|153 comments
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Z-Index by Examples(juliu.is)
2 points by Arkh4m 6y ago|0 comments
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How to stop worrying and love your Postgres indexes(engineering-blog.alphasights.com)
4 points by Arkh4m 11y ago|0 comments
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Priscilla, a Ruby gem which frocks up your console messages(github.com)
3 points by Arkh4m 13y ago|0 comments
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by Arkh4m 13y ago
It looks great, very very polished. Congrats!
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ShowHN: LoveThisSong, insta-share your songs from iPhone to Facebook(lab.welaika.com)
2 points by Arkh4m 14y ago|1 comments
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by Arkh4m 14y ago
I've tried this and it looks interesting; probably there are too many tools to install to get it working though, i.e. todo.txt looks a bit like garbage to me.
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by Arkh4m 15y ago
This looks really like what I needed, it looks awesome!