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Break's Forge World

Personal blog · breakds.orgprogrammingsystems

Break's Forge World is a personal blog at breakds.org about programming and systems. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-08, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2021–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Break's Forge World for a guide to using Nix shell to set up specific Node.js versions instead of a version manager. The comments cite it as a worked example of customising a Node.js build.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Arkh4m · 2021-09-21
    There is no need to literally fork the nixpkgs repo. Most language derivations were written with the idea of supporting multiple versions at the same time. In this guide ( https://www.breakds.org/post/nix-shell-for-nodejs ), the key example is this one: let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {}; buildNodejs = pkgs.callPackage <nixpkgs/pkgs/development/web/nodejs/nodejs.nix> {}; nodejs-8 = buildNodejs { enableNpm = true; # We n…

    Comment linking /post/nix-shell-for-nodejs

    on “Ditch your version manager”
  2. ducktective · 2021-09-21

    Submitted Web Development Environment on Specified Version of Node.js, with Nix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Arkh4m · 2021-09-20
    Then you'd have to learn to read Nix expressions. The original expression that builds all ruby versions is here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/6120ac5cd201f6cb593d1b... Here's an example that shows how to build a customized version for NodeJS https://www.breakds.org/post/nix-shell-for-nodejs

    Comment linking /post/nix-shell-for-nodejs

    on “Ditch your version manager”
  4. alex_hirner · 2021-01-10

    Submitted Declarative Docker Container Service in NixOS (2020) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. alex_hirner · 2023-03-19

    Submitted VLAN Configuration by Examples as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. todsacerdoti · 2023-02-13

    Submitted Nix Based C++ Workflow From Scratch (2021) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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