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Grid Parts and Relationships(redblobgames.com)
2 points by ryangibb 1y ago|0 comments
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by ryangibb 1y ago
This is a good argument for the Unix philosophy's "do one thing" to avoid the bloat the author describes. E.g. vi, sendmail, and some bash for Word's mail merge. Or Emacs and some lisp. But then the onus is on the user t
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The mechanics of software engineering teams(chrisloy.dev)
2 points by ryangibb 1y ago|0 comments
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by ryangibb 1y ago
I've got a small project that uses a Cap'N Proto capability to do the key exchange for a mosh session which might be interesting to some: https://github.com/RyanGibb/capability-shell/blob/619d26dbb1.
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Caledonia: Command-Line and Emacs Calendar Client(ryan.freumh.org)
3 points by ryangibb 1y ago|0 comments
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Expanding My Vocabulary to a Million Words(ryan.freumh.org)
3 points by ryangibb 1y ago|0 comments
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by ryangibb 1y ago
Ely (a few miles south of this project) used to be an island with a large eel fishing industry, from which it derives it's name. The Fens were drained in the 17th century with help from Dutch engineers, and I believe much of the area i
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by ryangibb 1y ago
> The second I stepped outside I was set upon by a flood of mosquitos like I have never experienced before. I have been to the jungles of Vietnam, the swamps of Florida and the Canadian countryside. This was beyond anything I've eve
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by ryangibb 1y ago
The difficulty with the GNS is getting the public keys that enable the decentralisation. Key signing parties seem to have their limits. There’s a bunch of alternative DNS roots out there, that are similarly hierarchical, but really interest
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by ryangibb 1y ago
Given the website, is worth noting that keyboards like this can avoid the infamous Emacs pinky. I've got the keys two rows below the homerow bound to the modifiers right alt, super, alt, control, and shift. And reversed on the other ha
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by ryangibb 1y ago
I built similar functionality into a DNS server so the device can be woken from beyond the local network: https://github.com/RyanGibb/eon/tree/main/bin/hibernia There's a bit of a writeup here:
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Building a Low-Powered NAS(ryan.freumh.org)
2 points by ryangibb 1y ago|0 comments
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Cresting the 0Caml Al Humps(anil.recoil.org)
2 points by ryangibb 1y ago|0 comments
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Steps Towards an Ecology for the Internet(arxiv.org)
1 points by ryangibb 1y ago|0 comments
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Re: What's so cool about Scheme?(people.csail.mit.edu)
4 points by ryangibb 1y ago|0 comments
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Nickel Modules(tweag.io)
57 points by ryangibb 2y ago|21 comments
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Meta Privacy Policy(facebook.com)
2 points by ryangibb 2y ago|0 comments
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7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen(mattgadient.com)
332 points by ryangibb 3y ago|183 comments
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DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2023(blog.briancmoses.com)
2 points by ryangibb 3y ago|0 comments
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Domains, Decentralisation, and DNS(dougbelshaw.com)
2 points by ryangibb 3y ago|0 comments
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by ryangibb 3y ago
It's very rough, and I haven't found much time to work on it recently, but I've started something with https://github.com/RyanGibb/eilean-nix
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Developing opam-based OCaml projects with Nix Flakes(ryan.freumh.org)
2 points by ryangibb 3y ago|0 comments
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Hillingar: MirageOS Unikernels on NixOS(ryan.freumh.org)
1 points by ryangibb 3y ago|0 comments
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ReUpNix: Reconfigurable and Updateable Embedded Systems [pdf](dl.acm.org)
2 points by ryangibb 3y ago|0 comments
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by ryangibb 3y ago
Vernor Vinge wrote about 'programmer archaeologists' digging through 1000-year-old software stacks in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interste...
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by ryangibb 3y ago
> When does the determinism happen? > When I specified packages to install, I didn’t specify an integrity hash, let alone a version number. If I ran the same Nix configuration a year from now, I assume I’d get a different system becau
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by ryangibb 3y ago
For full NixOS on an android device, something more like postmarketOS, see also https://mobile.nixos.org .
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by ryangibb 4y ago
While it might be possible, it's not very practical. The original Nix thesis [0] talks about using Nix as a low-level build system in Chapter 10.1. And the author of opam-nix* has made an attempt to use Nix as a build system [1]. Howev
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by ryangibb 4y ago
I self host a mailserver on a hetzner VPS running NixOS using nixos-mailserver [0] (dovecot and postfix under the hood). [0] https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver
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by ryangibb 4y ago
Feeder: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ One of the surprisingly few readers I could find that is local-only and doesn't require an account. I self host a lot of services but do

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