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Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

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Re: Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

I don't see what nix is doing for you? There's vim, absolutely, coreutils (though I don't immediately see anything GNU-specific), and a tiny wrapper script that happens to be written in flake.nix but could trivially be factored out. I don't see anything that I wouldn't expect to run on, say, OpenBSD if you installed vim.

(That said, yes, it's a nice journaling system)

Re: Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

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Post by bspammer »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #2

I don't see what nix is doing for you? There's vim, absolutely, coreutils (though I don't immediately see anything GNU-specific), and a tiny wrapper script that happens to be written in flake.nix but could trivially be factored out. I don't see anything that I wouldn't expect to run on, say, OpenBSD if you installed vim. (That said, yes, it's a nice journaling system)

This is a pretty poor example for a few reasons, but the idea is that anyone get can a shell with the tool fully installed along with all its dependencies, with a single command:

nix shell 'git+https://tangled.sh/@oppi.li/journal'

It's massive overkill for a shell alias, but for a more complex project it can be very nice.

Re: Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

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Post by atrus »

semiinfinitely wrote: post #4

what is this nix religion I keep hearing about

Nix is a form of computing that's simultaneously 20 years in the past and 20 years in the future. I love it.

Honest answer though, it's a deterministic way of building up a computer/environment. Think pip/uv/packages.lock but for everything.

Re: Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

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Post by rikafurude21 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #2

I don't see what nix is doing for you? There's vim, absolutely, coreutils (though I don't immediately see anything GNU-specific), and a tiny wrapper script that happens to be written in flake.nix but could trivially be factored out. I don't see anything that I wouldn't expect to run on, say, OpenBSD if you installed vim. (That said, yes, it's a nice journaling system)

author seems to be the type to follow tech trends and use them to signal "coolness" - people like that use these absurd stacks because its niche, not for any actual benefit

Re: Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

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Post by 0xCMP »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #2

I don't see what nix is doing for you? There's vim, absolutely, coreutils (though I don't immediately see anything GNU-specific), and a tiny wrapper script that happens to be written in flake.nix but could trivially be factored out. I don't see anything that I wouldn't expect to run on, say, OpenBSD if you installed vim. (That said, yes, it's a nice journaling system)

Yea I don't see Nix doing much here particularly, but for me I typically would do something like this to make the system as consistent as possible over a long period of time without being actively maintained.

I guess this does ensure the key `journal` command works exactly the same because the dateutils binary will stay locked to the version in the `flake.lock`.

I would have assumed that nvim would also be locked because that's where I would expect more possible breaking changes with the existing special config.

With little tools/projects like these I could easily see months-years before it would get any active attention from me again (or simply I wouldn't be using it; so it doesn't matter).

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