setheron

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by setheron 2mo ago
Stuck feeling it's so cool and also so complicated.
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Actually Queryable Executables(fzakaria.com)
2 points by setheron 3mo ago|0 comments
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by setheron 3mo ago
You might like https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executabl...
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by setheron 3mo ago
I like your phrasing; I think too often we get caught trying to optimize for everything. For my own edification I often let performance & size slip to see if I can re-imagine something simpler from the start from a complete new directio
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by setheron 3mo ago
I won't share any feedback specially but choosing low level primitives as research I found challenging due to the unfamiliarty in peer review circles. I enjoyed all the papers I read on my graduate classes that bordered on "art&qu
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by setheron 3mo ago
I might look at this next; with Nix it's easy to explore and rebuild seamlessly ;P
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by setheron 3mo ago
(author) I'm enjoying the comments. When I published a short-paper with this idea in academic circles, the feedback wasn't so kind
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by setheron 3mo ago
(author) In the post I say I did write sqlelf which is just that, sqlite + virtual tables prior to this.
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Executable Is a SQLite Database(fzakaria.com)
563 points by setheron 3mo ago|109 comments
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by setheron 3mo ago
That's an interesting idea as well. Daniel wrote https://github.com/danielfullmer/nkv which also was a pretty fun experiment on how to improve data access within Nix. I love these cursed ideas.
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by setheron 3mo ago
(author) If you have questions, happy to try and answer some.
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Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix(fzakaria.com)
2 points by setheron 3mo ago|0 comments
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by setheron 3mo ago
If you dynamically sold an SO are you still static even if you did it "custom" ? At that point it's a dynamic loader in another name?
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by setheron 3mo ago
(author) -- fun to see this here. I wrote this on the way (on the airplane) to DEFCON34 and Nix Vegas[1] I didn't even get a chance to cruise around and see anything of DEFCON proper since the Nix community had me captive the whole tim
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by setheron 3mo ago
I dunno about all this hullabaloo. I'm at https://nix.vegas/ having fun and using Nix. https://imgflip.com/i/aye90c
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by setheron 4mo ago
This also can be handled by binfmt_misc; I include a demo of it in a gist.
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by setheron 4mo ago
Feel free to email me! (author)
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by setheron 4mo ago
I would love to learn more about this; I'm deeply interested in replacing ELF with something either simpler or maybe leveraging sqlite for much of the functionality.
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by setheron 4mo ago
(author) YESSSSSSS
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by setheron 4mo ago
(author) You did a great job articulating the points!
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by setheron 4mo ago
I don't want to curate my own AGENTS file. I'd rather just copy someone else's verbatim similar to code formatting style. Fabien, care to share your whole file? I'll plug it into my NixOS machine.
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by setheron 4mo ago
https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/09/who-does-anubis-actually-sto... I wrote about this recently as well.
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by setheron 4mo ago
I'm confused -- does this compile it live when the server ships code? How do we resolve dependencies, toolset etc.. Is the idea to just pick an old enough platform toolchain you expect to be present?
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by setheron 4mo ago
We also wrote an academic-style trip report at https://fzakaria.com/assets/pdfs/Attention_Nix_and_Tacos_is_... (arxiv submission is pending!)
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A TacoSprint 2026 Retrospective(fzakaria.com)
1 points by setheron 4mo ago|1 comments
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Nix Needs Relocatable Binaries(fzakaria.com)
21 points by setheron 5mo ago|0 comments
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by setheron 5mo ago
You can still apply. People dropped out. Reach out to me if you want. My email is in my website (see profile). We leave Saturday to hack on Nix !
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by setheron 5mo ago
Come join us at https://tacosprint.org/ We have more availability! (Also sponsor maybe )
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by setheron 5mo ago
Big fan of exe.dev so the added Nix seems like a solid value add. exe.dev is great but lurking in my mind is: "how will I replicate this if I ever need to move to AWS etc.." for all the service composition. Site looks great too
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by setheron 5mo ago
The purpose is just to visualize scale. Similar to Jeff Dean's visualization of numbers every programmer should know, visualizing scale is helpful -+ or at least I find it so.

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