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The postmodern build system (updated 2025). (c) 2025 jade // all rights reserved.
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The postmodern build system (updated 2025)
2025 Update This post has aged remarkably well from its original release on 2023-12-11. That being said, I have found myself working on build systems full-time in the year and a half since then and have gotten more familiar with the industrial state of af
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You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles
A pattern I've seen happen many times is where people (often new to Nix) overuse Nix in a manner that makes their lives harder, in order to make their systems ostensibly more reproducible and often get the bad side of the tradeoffs inherent in using it. T
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Misadventures in DTrace: how to debug the macOS kernel
Recently I had a very hard problem on my hands: Lix on macOS wasn't terminating daemons when the client vanished (e.g. if the client got CTRL-C'd or crashed). This is a rather .. weird symptom, since the mechanism for detecting that is very simple. Immedi
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Pinning NixOS with npins, or how to kill channels forever without flakes
Start of Meetup: "hmm, Kane is using nixos channels, that's not good, it's going to gaslight you" 6 hours later: Utterly bamboozled by channels 6.5 hours later: I am no longer using channels - @[email protected] Nix channels, which, just like Nix,
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Pinning packages in Nix
Although Nix supposedly makes pinning things easy, it really does not seem so from a perspective of looking at other software using pinning: it is not possible to simply write package = "5.0.1" in some file somewhere and get one package pinned at a specif
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