tomberek

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by tomberek 3y ago
I understand that Nix solves many problems and indeed bet on its ability to do so. It is why I've put so much effort into Nix itself. However, Nix poses a relatively steep learning curve being built up from first principles making it v
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by tomberek 3y ago
It is to lower the barrier for people who care about geospatial software, but may not be (and don't have to be!) Nix experts.
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by tomberek 3y ago
Thanks for building trystero. Fun and easy p2p in browser.
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by tomberek 3y ago
That seems to be what the article is trying to avoid saying. I'm surprised there is no mention of Haskell; a place where much of this has been experimented and explored. It's fine to redesign the wheel, but take a look at older de
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by tomberek 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of the Nix shebang, and we now have a variant of it for the new CLI. Feedback on it would be appreciated.
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by tomberek 3y ago
Governance has been a difficult thing to make progress on. I can say that we did discuss recently cleaning up some of these old solutions and making official approaches clearly marked as such.
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by tomberek 3y ago
I work on Nix and think this paradigm has already impacted and will continue to influence software devopment in general. I want to make it easier for organizations/companies/groups to adopt it. Ideas and questions are welcome.
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by tomberek 3y ago
As a CEO of htmx, I second this appreciation. Well done!
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by tomberek 3y ago
There is a naming problem here where "Nix" is often easily confused with the state management pieces (home-manager, NixOS, etc). The underlying Store abstraction provides the concepts of various kinds of addressing. This is indepe
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by tomberek 3y ago
Nix (and by extension Guix) has had remote builds and signed build provenance for nearly 2 decades. It has also had a story to deal with both content-addrrssed and input-addressed (this is our term for the "stable identifier" for
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by tomberek 3y ago
Look at how much room you have for data! I wonder what we can fit in there. More seriously, a metacircular example to draw from would be: https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth
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by tomberek 3y ago
This was my first thought, but this connection was not made clear in the article - or if it was a naming coincidence.
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by tomberek 3y ago
Especially with the remote SSH features one needs a way to ensure everything needed for your process is on the target machine; Nix makes this easy. Nix + GDAL + GNUParallel + autoscaling groups === massive geospatial data processing pipelin
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by tomberek 3y ago
Generally what we see people do is: - build in CI - push to a cache (eg: S3-compatible/HTTPS/SSH) - use the cache elsewhere In that paradigm, the artifacts live in the binary cache (sometimes called substituter), much like contain
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Nix in the Wild: Looker (GCP)(floxdev.com)
3 points by tomberek 3y ago|2 comments
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by tomberek 3y ago
I never understood the concept of boarding from the front. I would never want to be the first on a plane; regardless of status. And this means that every single person passing them will bump, cough, shuffle, past those that boarded first. I
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by tomberek 3y ago
30 seconds: Can you build/test/run your organization's software from 5 days/months/years ago - across multiple platforms, systems, and ecosystems - reliably? Can you develop, build, manage, and maintain your softwar
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by tomberek 3y ago
There are some efforts underway to address the people problems in the Nix community; empowering the various teams, spreading out knowledge among more people, making it easier to participate. In fact, this is a current topic of discussion; t
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by tomberek 3y ago
I would donate a few beers and pizzas to such an effort.
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by tomberek 3y ago
Stabilization of flakes and certain other experimental features is a top priority for the Nix team at the moment (disclaimer: myself included). Please take a look at RFC136 for an outline of our plan for the way ahead…… and please comment.
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by tomberek 3y ago
At flox, we are specifically focusing on those people who are the advocates and bringing Nix into their organizations, teams, and companies. We call them the “Ambassadors”, and want to call out how important that role is in making Nix mains
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by tomberek 3y ago
It’s funny; I forgot to mention sandboxed builds because at this point I’ve forgotten that they are not ubiquitous. Oops. Thanks!
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by tomberek 3y ago
Is any of this available or would you be willing to share or discuss? I’ve done some HTMX/_hyperscript for prototypes and hobby projects and loved it; contributed a few of the cookbook examples. Overall it is a pleasant ecosystem. I’m
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by tomberek 3y ago
Other than the very explicit tracking of the packages, their dependencies, the full build instructions, the public history, cryptographic signatures for the pre-built binaries, and the trivial ability for anyone to re-build from source and
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Rust and Nix: Parallels in Complexity Management(floxdev.com)
7 points by tomberek 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomberek 4y ago
Translating from Nix to another packaging ecosystem usually entails removing specificity. This is why going in the opposite direction is harder. So I suspect we can provide escape hatches from Nix into Debian/RPM/Arch/Gentoo
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by tomberek 4y ago
Would you be interested in a session for me to better understand (and hopefully eventually fix) why Nix was not comfortable? Not looking to evangelize, but to learn about the experience from your perspective.
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by tomberek 4y ago
Excellent. Any custom modifications can go here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/tree/master/framewor... to make it easier to collaborate and distribute.
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by tomberek 4y ago
I’ve loved my Framework so far and the excellent customer service. Is there still enough attention put into ensuring Linux compat? I’m especially interested in providing NixOS support as the Framework has been popular in that community.
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by tomberek 4y ago
My biased suggestion and would benefit from your C++ understanding is the Nix community ( https://github.com/NixOS/nix ). More frankly, “best” is very subjective and you should find a passion or topic or task you are alr

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