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Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix

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2 points·by jrmurray·3 mesi fa·0 comments

From Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (With Will Wilson) [video]

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3 points·by jrmurray·10 mesi fa·0 comments

Organizing System Configs with NixOS

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2 points·by jrmurray·3 anni fa·0 comments

Type Safe GroupBy in TypeScript

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1 points·by jrmurray·3 anni fa·0 comments

Building a Simple DB in Rust – Part 2 – Basic Execution

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3 points·by jrmurray·3 anni fa·0 comments

Building a Simple DB in Rust – Part 1

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1 points·by jrmurray·4 anni fa·0 comments

Garnet: The Generics Problem

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1 points·by jrmurray·4 anni fa·0 comments

Edge Case Poisoning (2020)

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142 points·by jrmurray·4 anni fa·47 comments

Building TypeScript Node Apps with Nix

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2 points·by jrmurray·4 anni fa·0 comments

Making a PR to Nixpkgs

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43 points·by jrmurray·4 anni fa·21 comments

Nix and Skaffold for painless developer environments

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2 points·by jrmurray·4 anni fa·0 comments

Rust Environment and Docker Build with Nix Flakes

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1 points·by jrmurray·4 anni fa·0 comments

The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy

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Intermediate TypeScript: Literals and Unions

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1 points·by jrmurray·4 anni fa·0 comments

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jrmurray
·3 anni fa·discuss
For an amazing fighting game guide/tutorial I can't recommend https://ki.infil.net enough. Its centered around Killer Instinct but describes general fighting game concepts really well. It has really great visuals/inline videos
jrmurray
·4 anni fa·discuss
While nix can be very intimidating to get going, I think for just getting developer environments spun up it can be somewhat simple. I highly reccomend trying to add a `flake.nix` to your projects. It makes on boaring new devs a breeze https://medium.com/immuta-engineering/nix-and-skaffold-for-p...
jrmurray
·4 anni fa·discuss
Yea I think the main issue holding nix back is lack of documentation/standards on how to do things.

Like the other commenter mentioned how npmlock2nix exists but it's hard to figure out that these tools exists.

Im hoping that flakes help solve alot of problems to make it easier for users to jump in. Then hopefully the documentation problem will naturally start going away as more people start using nix.
jrmurray
·4 anni fa·discuss
Not sure why I always forget amend exists. That is much cleaner
jrmurray
·4 anni fa·discuss
Yea I will agree it's daunting. I've been using nix os for 2 years and this was my first time making a pr back.

I think using nix for personal projects helps build your mental model a lot more. Once you take the time to build a package manually alot of it clicks.

As a user of nixos/nix if you're not building packages it's great. Nixos is quite declarative for most settings. The main issue is just figuring out what options exist...
jrmurray
·4 anni fa·discuss
Nix as a home brew replacement without using homemanger/nix Darwin is not a great sell to me imo.

Using flakes and using it for project dependencies though is amazing and quite easy to use imo.

We decided to use it at my job for a new project and it's been pretty amazing https://link.medium.com/DwIGVmRZ6rb