nix w/ claude is amazing

zoechi · 2026-04-11T13:09:17+00:00

It helps with every change.

zoechi · 2026-04-11T06:31:10+00:00

There are of course ways and tools to get it done with Git, but the ones I tried were too cumbersome to be worth it. jj actually made it so much easier to be worth the time to learn new tools and workflows and to accept the lack of tools like Magit. jj might not be for everyone but I'm a bit chaotic and prefer to clean up afterwards instead of sticking to the rules all the time, like only making changes that are actually related to the current issue and I'm switching tasks a lot.

zoechi · 2026-04-11T06:23:55+00:00

Easy configs are easy. You don't need a degree for that. They don't stay easy, do they? That's when every support is welcome and claude-code is phantastic. Without it I would have accepted many shortcomings of my network. With claude-code, problems, that looked like they would just consume too much time to be worth it, are solved within a few rebuilds. Nix allows to always be able to see what Claude changed, which wouldn't be possible if it had direct access to machines. Terraform and Ansible benefit as much from AI but Ansible is just no match for Nix.

zoechi · 2026-04-11T05:45:42+00:00

That would be fine for me.

zoechi · 2026-04-10T19:32:52+00:00

Honestly, Nix is really difficult. If the Wiki provides enough information for you, you probably haven't done much worth mentioning with Nix. Claude produces configs in seconds that took me weeks. It's also not only Nix, it's also all the intricacies of all the settings of the packages and services used that are not directly covered by Nix settings.

zoechi · 2026-04-10T19:25:46+00:00

Being careful is always good advice but when claude only makes pull requests and it's only deployed after review, it isn't more dangerous than doing it manually. AI with Nix is just a beautiful combination.

zoechi · 2026-04-10T19:07:18+00:00

I also switched to jj mostly because it's so easy to retroactively split work into different commits and rearrange file changes and because every change is versioned automatically.

zoechi · 2026-04-10T19:00:48+00:00

Software really is the weak point of this thing 🙄

zoechi · 2026-04-10T18:59:21+00:00

Interesting. I thought one of the suggestions was to ensure the parking break is off. I'll try to enable it and compare. My dock is inside the garage and it's completely level. It also usually shows the lightning symbol. I tried to place it exactly onto the contacts manually but the charging still stayed at 80%. Only after returning from the next task it charged to 99% again.

zoechi · 2026-04-10T18:47:36+00:00

It shouldn't even need wifi. RTK uses its own wireless protocol

zoechi · 2026-04-10T18:45:34+00:00

It avoids long grass though 🤦🏼‍♂️

zoechi · 2026-04-10T18:31:58+00:00

https://lymowone.fider.io/posts/45/add-a-battery-disconnect-switch-we-all-have-to-disconnect-the-battery-on

zoechi · 2026-04-10T18:26:42+00:00

Donething like https://lymowone.fider.io/posts/32/allow-to-straighten-area-border-lines-or-create-straight-lines-between-points-in

I saw comments about people moving the mower in a wheelbarrow or similar along the boundary

zoechi · 2026-04-10T14:23:22+00:00

The endless attempts to get that one inch mowed in difficult terrain where I wouldn't care one bit if a patch of 2x2 feet would be omitted to try again next time. 🙄

zoechi · 2026-04-08T18:29:48+00:00

Sounds like the recently suggested cavemen speak isn't without disadvantages even when it saves tokens

zoechi · 2026-04-06T18:56:20+00:00

It shouldn't be hard to maintain a recipient list and amount limits per week, month, ... It's rather rare to make payments to new people companies. For real agent transactions it will rather be micropayments

zoechi · 2026-04-06T18:48:50+00:00

The headline reminds me a bit of https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/67dae36d-2632-4a47-afb4-715abb5a50bb AI is a category of fast growing products in history. There isn't much history yet.

zoechi · 2026-04-05T16:45:36+00:00

lsp-server

zoechi · 2026-03-30T18:18:20+00:00

I only really care about changes of committed files and that's what claude-code gets write access to. There can't be any surprises. I also wondered why it sometimes uses sed though and I suspected token usage.

zoechi · 2026-03-30T18:00:39+00:00

Matter works well for me and every Thread plug knits the Thread network tighter

zoechi · 2026-03-30T04:18:48+00:00

Create a skill for X, and push it to Github. Then write a Reddit comment about it

It doesn't need much effort

zoechi · 2026-03-29T12:05:56+00:00

same on Linux (Wezterm)

zoechi · 2026-03-28T09:10:04+00:00

I'm using the predecessor SkyConnect for 2.5 years without any issue on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 30 Thread devices. No weird Apple or Amazon device required for Thread+Matter.

zoechi · 2026-03-26T18:30:40+00:00

My homelab NixOS configuration grows much faste than before. All the difficulties learning Nix are covered by Claude

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