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Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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Re: Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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Post by tpoacher »

I have something somewhat similar here: https://git.sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/misc-updater

The main difference is I initially only needed a mechanism to check if my "Manually-Installed or Source -Compiled" (MISC) packages have updates, but now it also supports install/upgrading too.

In other words, things I am forced to do by hand outside of a package manager, I now only do by hand once, save it as an 'install' script, and then incorporate it into this system for future use and to check for updates. Pretty happy with it.

Re: Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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Post by ManuelKiessling »

bargainbin wrote: post #5

If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend Mise. It manages everything at the user level so it’s not as “all encompassing” as Nix and is readily compatible with immutable distros. https://mise.jdx.dev/ Your solution is akin to putting your dotfiles in the code repo, which is going to cause issues with languages with poor version compatibility (such as node and python) when switching between old projects. Also, bold…

These days, all dev tooling of my projects lives behind mise tasks, and the runtime for my projects is Docker.

This means that getting a project in shape for development on a new system looks like this:

- clone project

- `mise run setup`

I have zero dev tools on my host, projects are 100% self-contained.

Pure bliss.

See https://github.com/dx-tooling/sitebuilder-webapp for an example.

Re: Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

bargainbin wrote: post #5

If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend Mise. It manages everything at the user level so it’s not as “all encompassing” as Nix and is readily compatible with immutable distros. https://mise.jdx.dev/ Your solution is akin to putting your dotfiles in the code repo, which is going to cause issues with languages with poor version compatibility (such as node and python) when switching between old projects. Also, bold…

I use mise, but its conclusion that everybody needs to write an aqua plugin now is annoying. They need to make plugin-making a lot easier.

Re: Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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Post by Gigachad »

theowaway213456 wrote: post #3

Five years ago, I would've loved this. I love the simplicity and power of good old Make. And I obsess over my workstation's configuration. I used to have a massive bash script I would use to reprovision my workstation after every clean upgrade of Ubuntu. But these days, I just tell codex to install things for me. I basically use it as a universal package manager. It's more reliable honestly than trying to keep up to…

I feel like even iPad kids are more capable with a computer than HN users these days.

Re: Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

I codify all my AI install/setup/running junk (https://codeberg.org/mutablecc/ai-agent-coding) with Makefiles. You can make DRY Makefiles real easy, reuse them, override settings, without the fancy stuff in the author's post. The more you build up a reusable Makefile, the easier everything gets. But at the same time: don't be afraid to write a one-off, three-line, do-almost-nothing Makefile. If it's so simple it seems stupid, it's probably just right.

Re: Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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Post by dewey »

ika wrote: post #9
ekropotin wrote: post #2

I think you are re-inventing the wheel https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

I agree. I started with Nix flakes in my project and fell in love with them. Then I started using Home Manager, and now I feel complete. I even played with nix-darwin and NixOS. It's an amazing piece of software.

I’ve gotten used to it and with LLM it’s easier to set up the config without learning all the obscure syntax but on macOS it’s still a very un-native feeling compared to home brew. Having to sudo all the time feels weird for just updating user space apps and configs.

Re: Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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Post by saint_yossarian »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #15
bargainbin wrote: post #5

If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend Mise. It manages everything at the user level so it’s not as “all encompassing” as Nix and is readily compatible with immutable distros. https://mise.jdx.dev/ Your solution is akin to putting your dotfiles in the code repo, which is going to cause issues with languages with poor version compatibility (such as node and python) when switching between old projects. Also, bold…

I use mise, but its conclusion that everybody needs to write an aqua plugin now is annoying. They need to make plugin-making a lot easier.

What conclusion do you mean? Aqua is just one of the many backends it supports.

For example there's also the GitHub backend which lets you install binaries from releases, no plugin needed at all.

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