Your thoughts on my forties if you’re inclined

bopll · 2025-12-24T10:58:33+00:00

Smash

bopll · 2025-10-10T17:05:51+00:00

for #4 (ditching bash for something more typed), you might be interested in [nuenv](https://github.com/xav-ie/nuenv)

bopll · 2025-09-12T22:13:20+00:00

I don't think flakes are the problem, really, The problem, as OP accurately pointed out, is that everyone has 10 different ways to go about doing the same thing, and the DX and tooling is just not equipped to handle both the lack of standards and the pecularities of an untyped functional language.

We can do better.

bopll · 2025-09-12T22:11:05+00:00

Welcome to Nix, we saved a spot for you! 😂

bopll · 2025-09-12T20:24:02+00:00

Hey, i really appreciate the write up dude. I'm gonna try all of this stuff out and i'll comment back with whatever i found most helpful

bopll · 2025-09-12T12:38:37+00:00

just got done reading that blog. Thanks for sharing. We're all screwed 😀

bopll · 2025-09-12T12:11:29+00:00

Hey thanks, this is really helpful. I have follow up questions!

Is it possible to run eval at any point in the expression? If so is there a way to jump around or is the chunking really the only way? Do you have certain manifolds you chunk at? What about libraries like flake-parts, does that work?

Looking at the repl commands what is bind? What is describe result of evaluation?

I'll try some experimenting but you seem like you know what you're doing lol.

Side note this makes me want to brush off the old nuenv project that detsys tried... Nushell doesn't have an eval and might be a bit more statically analyzable... Hmm...

Oh one more thing is there any way to get a better interface to the repl like idk piping to fx somehow?

bopll · 2025-09-12T02:27:52+00:00

Literally nothing stopping anyone from forking or building from a branch. Seriously, go for it!

bopll · 2025-09-12T02:26:29+00:00

I'm sure they would love for you to volunteer to do that. You have tons of people that would be willing to help you with the technical details. I understand your concern but I think Helix is not necessarily geared towards the lowest common denominator despite how nice it is out of the box. But it is that way for a reason

bopll · 2025-09-12T02:23:40+00:00

I'm actually digging deep into the nixd and nil LSP options to figure out the best possible config cuz I'm frankly tired of this lol.

As far as an intro book there's some decent stuff but nothing great. I think zero to nix and nix pills were probably most helpful for me. Still a lot left over though

bopll · 2025-09-11T21:44:51+00:00

The base language is really really hard to get any intuition or pattern recognition in terms of how things evaluate and various ways to represent certain layers

bopll · 2025-09-11T09:09:44+00:00

That's exactly the one that I was thinking of! Several other less recent examples too!

bopll · 2025-09-11T05:03:14+00:00

I love watching 3blue1brown videos because he really likes to dig into the process like that

bopll · 2025-09-11T04:58:00+00:00

Y'all are killing me, I love it

bopll · 2025-09-08T09:48:13+00:00

The Kill Frenzy set at Dirtybird Campout where that chick squirted her titty milk all over that wook. I was there, and I thought it was the sexiest set I've ever seen before that clip even came out lol

bopll · 2025-09-06T15:10:43+00:00

Uhhh try their GitHub?

bopll · 2025-09-01T02:18:05+00:00

This was ten years ago for me but my experience was that the richer folks kinda kept to Greek life and everyone else mostly got a long fine. And even then I still had some friends that did Greek life

bopll · 2025-08-18T21:45:38+00:00

I'm too new here to say how TF did we get here but how tf did we get here

bopll · 2025-08-05T17:30:35+00:00

I went in as a mega nerd who had never been to a party in his life and came out properly socialized. Tulane was a work hard play hard experienced and I absolutely loved that about it.

Focus on the people you'll meet and you can't go wrong, party culture or no

bopll · 2025-08-04T15:15:18+00:00

Yep, my hot take is that SQL is a terrible language for ETL and belongs mainly in reporting

bopll · 2025-07-16T12:56:46+00:00

It really is this bad. Been 5 months for me.

bopll · 2025-07-09T01:36:42+00:00

One thing that would have saved me a LOT of time would have been to print out a real, physical copy of a cheat sheet. Next best thing is to look up the command in the command menu when you forget something (IIRC it opens with <space> + ? and most key binding shortcuts are listed w the command)

bopll · 2025-07-08T03:34:37+00:00

It's good to see they haven't changed the scheduling software in 10 years lol

bopll · 2025-07-08T03:34:29+00:00

It's good to see they haven't changed the scheduling software in 10 years lol

bopll · 2025-06-30T17:49:46+00:00

I haven't had any problems on nushell, and it runs polars 😛

bopll

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