Random thoughts

This is the place where the posting happens. Expect a mixed bag of technical and social topics, sprinkled with some poems that happened to happen.

📌 Things you should read

I have read these, and maybe you should too

Globally applying overlays onto Nixpkgs

Normally, overlays are applied to individual Nixpkgs instances, but there are ways of applying them system-wide.

Pinning NixOS with npins, this time without flakes for real

How to have your Nixpkgs pinned and in sync with your NixOS configuration, and have <nixpkgs> always point to it.

A soul in an aquarium

Two autonomous units

Enablers of abuse in online communities

How established community members can cause huge damage by defending bad actors.

Ghost bus

Passive suicidality scale

It's exhausting to go alone. Take this!

Against leading commas

Leading commas are a bad idea and here's why

Nix ohne NixOS [DE]

In 2021 hat das ChaosInKl online eine "OpenTopicNight" zum Thema Nix veranstaltet. Dieser Vortrag über Nix auf nicht-NixOS-Systemen, mit Fokus auf nix-shell und Entwicklungsumgebungen, ist dafür entstanden.