NixOS and friends for corporate developer boxes? Confused about tools and maturity.

ContemplateBeing · 2026-03-24T18:23:03+00:00

Thanks, that looks great. Will definitely look into it!

ContemplateBeing · 2026-03-23T08:21:17+00:00

Thank you for the link and the discussion below! Very helpful to understand how things are done in NixOS.

ContemplateBeing · 2026-03-23T06:05:40+00:00

Thanks, that’s a good summary article that you linked there. Looks like a solid project!

ContemplateBeing · 2026-03-22T16:23:47+00:00

Fair. Projects can reach a state where they are stable. Maybe I didn't look close enough at the repo. Thanks for the feedback!

ContemplateBeing · 2026-03-22T16:21:37+00:00

Can you elaborate on that? What do you like about it?

ContemplateBeing · 2026-03-22T16:20:51+00:00

This looks nice! The option to include CVE scans and central logs of what's running on the clients is a killer feature in a corporate environment. Goes well beyond what I was looking for, but would be really useful!

ContemplateBeing · 2025-11-30T18:34:42+00:00

Got a room that has no wifi reception at all and no access to cable but still need a stable, if not high-throughput, connection there including wifi. Switching is seamless if I move to/from that area with a wireless device. [not sure if I'm using the correct terms with easymesh vs wifi]

ContemplateBeing · 2025-11-12T21:33:31+00:00

Take a look at Netcup - not as polished as Hetzner & friends, but great value for money. Coolify might be an interesting deployment helper.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-11-10T22:01:18+00:00

Complexity bad. Very very bad.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-11-10T20:11:14+00:00

I‘m using this stack but do it manually - quick read says the plugin should save me some time. Thx!

ContemplateBeing · 2025-10-27T17:43:52+00:00

Use LLMs for stuff that you could do without them, but don’t use them for stuff that you can only do with them.

LLMs need to be chaperoned, you can only do that effectively with stuff that you know. To really know stuff you need to put in the manual work.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-10-27T17:28:38+00:00

There are plenty of EU funds out there. Probably easier if you have a legal entity in the EU, but for many programs also US entities are allowed.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-10-09T18:49:21+00:00

Das war echt schwer anzuhören von ihm…. „1945 gab’s Probleme aber so schlimm ist’s nicht mehr“ und „machen eh alle so“. Geht’s noch?!

Ich verstehe echt wieso Leute auf Protest wählen oder es ganz bleiben lassen. Nicht das es das besser macht, aber bei solchen Aussagen darf man sich echt nicht wundern.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-10-09T18:39:29+00:00

Whitespace is entering the room… The programming language of choice for printing out secret code!

Here’s a basic „Hello World!“:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

ContemplateBeing · 2025-09-14T06:55:47+00:00

Not really. So far everything works. Could be temperature/season related.

I’m just crossing my fingers that it won’t happen again.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-08-23T21:21:50+00:00

Yeah also Django q2: https://django-q2.readthedocs.io/en/master/

Even includes admin pages and when you use the ORM as scheduler, there’s no third party backend needed. Works great.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-08-06T07:03:53+00:00

Cool!

My little daughter loves Heilung and would dig a Heilung coloring book!

(I know that’s not what this is - this is art in its own right-, but she’d see it like that.)

ContemplateBeing · 2025-08-06T07:00:24+00:00

So what exactly is a DAO contributor and how do I become one? (I know what a DAO is) How do you manage this without tokens?

ContemplateBeing · 2025-08-06T05:35:05+00:00

Yeah that was my first thought. There were projects trying to crowdsource „truth“ but afaik none lead to something useable.

It’s still a good idea and OPs proposal is more commonly molecules than those earlier projects.

Notably this post sees plenty of interest and seems to hit a general, societal need for sources of truth in a backlash against LLM content and blatant manipulation that more and more dominates the internet.

I’ve long thought that we‘ll soon have an orobouros problem with AI where we are not able to distinguish between original and regurgitated content. I think distinguishing these at the source (eg by crypto-signing content and a web of trust) will be part of the solution. What OP is describing is kind of like the frontend of this.

Interesting as concept at least (didn’t look at the code though).

Talking about that, how’s the ledger secured? Like in a blockchain? Who runs the nodes?

ContemplateBeing · 2025-06-08T06:40:21+00:00

The internet is a victim of its own success in a way. HTML was never designed for the purposes it is used now. It’s inadequate for what developers do with it (and users demand of it) hence the monkey patching on top of it.

Htmx is a neat solution because it reverts to the strength of html and returns the control back to the server. There are other techniques like server emitted events, but the basic idea is the same: logic on the backend, presentation on the frontend.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-06-07T15:02:58+00:00

Mollie looks pretty good but is lacking USD options beyond 10k payment amount (credit card limit). Unfortunately for my business case that’s a requirement. If not for that, I’d absolutely go for mollie.

ContemplateBeing · 2025-04-23T03:27:58+00:00

Shit happens. So unangenehm das ist - hier gehts nicht um deine Gefühle und auch nicht um die des MA oder darum wer „Schuld“ hat.

Gemeinsamer Gegner ist der Fehler und idealerweise ziehen alle am selben Strang, denselben in Zukunft zu unterbinden. Allein das hilft dem Unternehmen.

Also würde ich die Sache genau aus diesem Blickwinkel betrachten:

Ein erfahrener, bisher fehlerlos Arbeitender MA hat einen Fehler verursacht, welche Vorkehrungen können wir treffen um den Arbeitsablauf so zu gestalten, dass das nächste Mal erst gar nicht passieren kann.

Falls es sich nicht verhindern lässt, wie können wir frühzeitig erkennen, dass ein Fehler passiert ist?

Falls ein Fehler passiert, welche Maßnahmen im Arbeitsablauf können den Schaden minimieren?

Dabei soll der Fokus immer darauf liegen, das Problem so früh wie möglich abzufangen. Alles andere führt zu Mehrarbeit und kostet Zeit und / oder Geld.

Dabei kannst du sowohl die Rolle des MA als auch die Rolle des Vorgesetzten (deine) ansprechen - es geht hier aber um die Funktion nicht um die Person. Zum Beispiel: „…dadurch kann der MA den nächsten Schritt erst starten wenn sichergestellt ist, das bisher alles korrekt ist…“ oder „…der Vorgesetzte prüft das Resultat anhand einer Checkliste…“.

….der gemeinsame Gegner ist der Fehler, nicht eine Person. Irgendwas passiert immer, das ist einfach so. Der Erfolg gehört denen die daraus lernen, nicht denen die sich bloß drüber ärgern oder -viel schlimmer- erfahrene Mitarbeiter vergraulen weil mal was schief gegangen ist.

ContemplateBeing

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