Life was easy when you first started out on NixOS with a single machine. Then you decided you want to have your configs available for macOS as well. Then you wanted to support an arbitrary number of hosts. Then you wanted to group modules more naturally. After some trials and many errors, here is where I ended up to achieve all three.
Read more... 2026-03-20 2844 words 14 min technologyIn an effort to justify more use-cases for their chatbot, OpenAI introduces Prism: an online LaTeX editor tailored for professional researchers. There’s only one problem: everything.
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Read more... 2024-11-20 2492 words 12 min technologyAs I was messing about in my NixOS VM, tweaking my little flake experiment, I found myself wondering how I can improve my development experience. What started as a “Could I?”, turned into “Should I?”, and finally settled on “Eh, Why Not?”.
Read more... 2024-11-19 1353 words 7 min technologyDo you want to set up your machine with NixOS? Are you fond of using full-disk encryption as well? Do you want to be spoon-fed best practices first and learn from them later? Then this is the guide for you!
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