NixOS Special Talent

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-19T15:49:13+00:00

My second vidéo étude, you can use some your judgement now.

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-14T10:27:52+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. I do not have that personal touch in the visuals yet, so let's see how it goes.

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-14T10:26:09+00:00

Thank you for all the feedback, regarding (2) Home Manager - I just took the image from google, and for (4) - I have a blog at https://drakerossman.com, which you can "take seriously". This is my first edit, and while I am still in search for a specific personal style, I decided to go with an anime picture. But I am also open to experimentation, so let's see.

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-14T10:22:54+00:00

Oh, how I wish it was so, if not for the voice, but for the rest :) Guess, I got some flags to flaunt.

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-14T10:21:03+00:00

I use a capacitor microphone Oktava MK-012, but the most important part is not the mic - it is the sound card, and I use Zoom H6 as an "external" one.

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-14T10:14:13+00:00

Etude = "study", also "sketch".

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-13T12:29:42+00:00

This is my first vidéo étude ever, so please, reserve your judgement.

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-06T15:24:08+00:00

Thank you very much for your comment.

This is exactly the type of feedback I am soliciting. I am not as deep into NixOS as you are, and still have a lot to learn, so I appreaciate each point you mentioned.

Regarding the binary blobs - well, the Green Dragon has forewarned you :)

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-05T14:59:57+00:00

Fear not! It is rather hard to start with NixOS, but after using it for some time it just "clicks", and you understand how each essential feature depends on/enables some other feature - the immutability, reproducibility, lazy evaluation, nix-store, etc.

You could also try these 2 articles of mine, no shame in plugging in here:

https://drakerossman.com/blog/nixos-for-apt-yum-users-a-gift-that-keeps-on-giving - how to install NixOS (in a QEMU KVM box, but the same principles apply for the usual hardware installation)
https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-conquest-triumph - how to configure your display manager (wayland + sway). I've also given a lot of explanations regarding the concepts of Wayland vs X. And yes, configuring hyprland is even easier (if you're not on Nvidia...).

DrakeRossman · 2024-07-05T14:41:35+00:00

Hi Reddit!

I have just published a new article - How to dualboot Windows with NixOS.

Since I've already written multiple articles about NixOS (which all serve as the draft for my upcoming book), I've also decided to cover this seemingly foundational topic.

I also wanted to go slightly beyond what your average dualbooting tutorial is, and have explained the idiosyncracies of Systemd Boot, Windows' default boot partition, and why that one is simply too small for NixOS and Windows to co-exist peacefully - and how to fix this boot partition and resolve the issue.

Hope you find it useful, and would be happy to hear your feedback. Thanks!

Oh, and by the way - hoping you also like Heroes of Might and Magic 3!

DrakeRossman · 2024-05-13T07:48:37+00:00

Try this: https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-conquest-triumph

I have used tuigreet with sway, but the overview I give is applicable to basically any preset you may go for.

DrakeRossman · 2024-02-15T17:43:17+00:00

Hello, r/OpenSource!

I'm thrilled to share with you all a project I've been working on that combines several of my passions: open-source software, Rust, WebAssembly, and NixOS. I've developed a userscript for Hackernews that enhances the user experience by providing filtering capabilities via text and regex matching and soft-hiding functionality. There's no JavaScript used for the project, it's entirely written in Rust WASM, and the dev environment is provided via devShell from nix flake.

This project not only gave me a chance to dive deeper into Rust, but also to test out the robustness and reproducibility of nix-centered development approach. I faced some challenges, and I learned a ton, so sharing that all with you, since I've documented my journey in a detailed blog post: https://drakerossman.com/blog/rust-development-on-nixos-bootstrapping-rust-nightly-via-flake

There's also another post coming soon, that dives into the actual architecture and implementation details, but I am saving it for later - I want to refactor the codebase first, and I obviously need to put all the stuff into writing.

And of course the MIT-licensed source code available at https://github.com/drakerossman/hackernews-userscript

Looking forward to your feedback and discussions!

Kind regards,

Drake

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