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I'm currently using direnv + 1password + https://github.com/tmatilai/direnv-1password . `direnv` to load shell environment dynamically upon entering a directory. It can load static…

Most services are connected through SSO, so those won't have passwords and are automatically shut down when the user leaves the company. All employees also have a 1password account…

Completions need to do arbitrary computation. A command like `git switch` needs to find what branches are available in the repository.

For many phones it is possible to change the exposed protocol from mtp to mass storage. Mass storage does need an image file with fat filesystem to work on most devices. It nowaday…

I've worked on DriveDroid. There were indeed people who have done this. Best example of such a use-case was someone who wanted to make an old printing press fetch files its files f…

Personally, I think because its feature-set is currently very much "scattered". Nix is in the transition to use 'flakes': a new concept that gives a bit more structure and allows e…

It's Joel Haver: https://www.youtube.com/c/MakingShorts He has a hilarious video on how he animates the cartoon videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_KOmXyVDo

I have used the app variant. It's kind of fun to see progress by planting bigger and bigger trees in a forest. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.forestapp

There are efforts to get deterministic builds in NixOS, but it comes with downsides like very high build times.

I don't know how NetBSD handles this, but for any provider that doesn't allow you to use custom ISO's or ipxe, you can use [nixos-in-place]( https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place…

Nix itself does indeed work on the latest version of WSL. However, there are still issues with building most of the packages from nixpkgs. For instance, I'm still waiting for this …

Also, for convenience, nested objects/attrsets can be shortened. For instance: { a = { b = { c = 3; }; }; } can be shortened to: { a.b.c = 3; } This is used quite often in NixOS sy…

IMO, this is exactly right. Not only is the quality of APIs often a disaster, the recommendations/best practices that Google is broadcasting have been way off in the past. Remememb…

Wouldn't it be better to create serialization functionality at compile-time? In the Java space some libraries are moving to compile-time code generation instead of relying on refle…

This is what I do as well. One raspberry pi with all the required connections (Z-Wave USB controller, IR emitter and a wire to my PC) with an extremely simple node application that…

I was looking for the same thing and found this: http://www.falstad.com/circuit/ It shows blocks traveling across wires/circuits. You can create your own circuits and see what happ…

You can check the 2nd and 3rd groups when using /(^\/foo\/bar$)|(^\/foo\/bar\/\d+$)/: > /(^\/foo\/bar$)|(^\/foo\/bar\/\d+$)/.exec('/foo/bar') [ '/foo/bar', '/foo/bar', undefined, i…

> Of course there are exceptions {...} put it in a tarball in /opt, make some symlinks to /usr/local This becomes unmanageable once you need to do that for multiple applications. D…

This could have been solved on a different level. If the right architecture was in place Steam didn't need to solve it. You can have multiple shared libraries of the same name, but…

The current packaging systems has problems. You cannot install just any version of any application on your system, but a lot of people want that. A nice example is games. You want …

I totally agree. I was very surprised Nix wasn't mentioned once in the article. They seem to be solving the same problem, but in a way that should work across different setups (no …

Nice clean library. I guess the vector object is kept mutable because of performance reasons? When actually calculating with this I see a lot of copying (and thereby allocating) go…

I work on DriveDroid on and off. It's an Android app where you can 'host' ISO/IMG files as if they were real CD/USB drives. It makes it possible to, for example, boot your PC from …

I haven't been following the development of this package manager, but previous attempts at making a package manager for Rust have failed. Is this package manager supported official…