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My NixOS/Nix Journey

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:08:00 -0500

I operate computers and I enjoy it. However, I operate a lot of computers, both as an occupation and in my personal life. As I operate computers, I’m often thinking about ways to improve the process of how I operate computers. This fundamental drive in me often pushes me to learn new things, experiment or find different approaches to common problems. I always try to think that perhaps what I have now is a local maximum worth pushing past, especially since, if I play my cards right, I can always revert back to whatever setup I had previously - computers are neat that way.

Learn Flakes the Fun Way

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:34:00 -0500

This post is a Flake-based rewrite of Learn Nix the Fun Way on fzakaria.com. I really enjoyed the content of the post and wanted to write it as a Nix user who is just using and prefers Flakes. It does add a few extra steps and complexity, but I think it’s still valuable and perhaps reveals a bit more about Nix and why it’s pretty fantastic. I also include a few neat things that are more Flake-specific at the end.

But yes, it’s basically plagiarism.

Fetching Go Modules via `goproxy` Inside VPN

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I think I finally setup the holy grail of universally being able to fetch-by-proxy go modules through a firewall using https://github.com/goproxy/goproxy

Things I Use

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:32:00 -0500

I saw a post recently on ye ole fediverse that asked developers if they have a “uses” page and I was inspired to create mine. I wrote up just about everything I use on a weekly basis.

You can read about all the things I use here!

iex and dbg/1 without pry prompts

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I love iex -S mix ... but I usually don’t like when dbg asks me to pry. Just show me my data! Well, today I learned about iex --no-pry:

Teaching TypeScript to Help You with Events (Generically)

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:36:00 -0600

I wanted my custom event system to have all the nice typed goodness and it took me a lot of brain-twisting and a couple of meetings to finally rubber duck it out. Now, I will share my hard-won knowledge with you!

Using Ecto Reflection for Simple Admin CRUD Forms in Elixir's Phoenix

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:30:00 -0500

If you’re working on a Phoenix project, you probably realized the client might want to view (or even – gasp – edit!) their data in a pretty raw form. Frameworks like Django provide this out of the box. Phoenix, however, leaves this up to you!

Elm: Forms, Fields, and Abstractions

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:24:54 -0500

If you’re using Elm, you’re probably dealing with forms and fields. You’re also probably wanting to do functional programming “right” and compose smaller functions together. Hopefully this helps!

Mirroring Gitea to Other Repository Management Services (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:37:34 -0500

I have a Gitea instance I self-host at home. I keep most of my repositories there, but I recognize that most other developers and potential employers will want to see my work on GitHub.

Weechat & Matrix Encryption Guide

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:17:30 -0600

There’s a new-fangled Python WeeChat plugin that supports end-to-end encryption. This guide will walk you through what is currently a semi-annoying setup, as the entire project is still under heavy development.