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> This is why Nix is really just a front for bash. For all of its faults, at least bash is Turing-complete. Nix is Turing-complete. This was even sometimes considered a problem bec…

I wrote a PR[1] for NixOS that adds a postage service. Just add the following to your configuration.nix to enable a postage web server: { services.postage = { enable = true; connec…

Haxl is a powerful abstraction with IMHO a beatifuly simple implementation. However for our use case at LumiGuide (reading and writing registers of modbus devices) it wasn't simple…

The nice thing about having many cyclists is that there's a high demand for cycle parking spaces which means you can run a good business guiding cyclists to available space. This i…

At LumiGuide we use NixOS on our development machines as well as on all our production servers. I used ansible before but NixOS is on a whole different level. See the following for…

That's me and my laptop :-) As I mentioned in the reddit comments we're using Haskell for most parts of the system (frontend via GHCJS, web application servers, protocol implementa…

(I'm the CTO of LumiGuide who developed this system). We're currently not using the system for video surveillance. Images from the cameras are only stored in memory for a short per…

Also see the slides of Simon's talk at ZuriHac 2014 last weekend: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ZuriHac2014#Talk_by_Simon...