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A good list of nix anti-patterns: https://nix.dev/anti-patterns/language, I am not sure why I haven’t found this before.

Note to self: when writing scripts depending on more than a couple of other binaries, it’s better to use pkgs.writeShellApplication rather than pkgs.writeShellScriptBin.

This way you can safely use binary instead of ${pkgs.package}/bin/binary.

It seems today is the day when I’m going to have to write some JavaScript code again. The reason? I am working on some complex yew components (Rust + WebAssembly if you’re not familiar with it), and unfortunately yew doesn’t support component testing, so I’ll need to write e2e tests using cypress.

I was looking for a lightweight and simple monitoring solution for my VPS and Raspberry Pi for a while now. I just recently discovered #influxdb and #telegraf. It was fairly straighforward to configure them using #nixos, and then to build beautiful system dashboards.

I am exploring the #fediverse as part of my #indieweb journey and oh boy, it’s taking me down on memory lane. 90’s and even 2000’s were so different, I always had fond memories of its DIY aspect (self hosting FTW!) as at that time “big-tech” wasn’t a thing and it definitely wasn’t so intrusive and homogenising.