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Davis Haupt
Personal blog · davi.sh/blog · on HN as davishprogrammingproductivity
Davis Haupt's personal blog at davi.sh covers programming and productivity. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Configuring VSCode with Nix on macOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on going immutable on macOS. The post covers using Nix-Darwin to manage a macOS setup. The one comment discusses Nix-Darwin and Homebrew and does not assess the post's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Davis Haupt's Website
Most-linked posts?
- Configuring VSCode with Nix on macOS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-24
- Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-25
- Thinking About Thinking with LLMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-02
What Hacker News says?
I moved from Emacs org-mode to Obsidian with the help of the obsidian-tasks plugin, which lets you write queries for tasks similarly to Dataview. I used a few of those queries to build up an Agenda view that matched my custom agenda buffer in org-mode. I put together a little write up here: https://davi.sh/blog/2022/01/obsidian-one/
Comment linking /blog/2022/01/obsidian-one/
on “Obsidian Dataview: Turn Obsidian Vault into a database you can query from”Submitted Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin as a story · 64 points
HN discussionDon't think of nix-darwin as an alternative to homebrew. Por que no los dos? You can run homebrew (declaratively!) via nix-darwin, and I think they complement each other quite well. I stick to nixpkgs for most of the foundational system tools, lsps, build tools - basically anything that works in the terminal and is fully open source. For everything else (zoom, slack, vscode, firefox, etc) I use homebrew packages. Th…
Comment linking /blog/2024/01/nix-darwin/
on “Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin”Submitted Hotwiring the Web: What Does Basecamp’s “New Magic” Bring to the Table? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://davi.sh/blog -- Mostly technical content, but every once in a while I write about something else that grabs my attention. I'm still trying to make writing regularly more of a habit. I don't have much of a backlog of topics, so trying to work on that a bit.
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Configuring VSCode as a Keyboard-Centric IDE as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking About Thinking with LLMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configuring VSCode with Nix on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Dotfiles on macOS with Nix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Like About Nix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ideas for an Agent-Oriented Programming Language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking About Thinking with LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configuring VSCode with Nix on macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honing Your Craft as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asking the Right Questions to ChatGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussion