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Drake Rossman
Personal blog · drakerossman.com/blog · on HN as drakerossmanprogrammingproductivity
Drake Rossman's personal blog at drakerossman.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Nix on macOS – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Articles and Essays from Drake Rossman
Most-linked posts?
- Nix on macOS – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-07-11
- Hybrid Teams Are the Worst2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-08-09
What Hacker News says?
Something like for 3 years. Absolutely fascinated by it. Writing a book about it too: https://drakerossman.com/blog/practical-nixos-the-book Also check the "nix" tag at blog.
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on “Hyprland Crash Course”Submitted Snippet-Driven Development as a story · 47 points
HN discussionIf you don't mind me replying in place of the orginal poster: Sway is just i3 for Wayland, which in turn means you have multiple workspaces (which are also potentially mapped to multiple monitors). You assign workspace a label (number, or text, or emoji), and you may also bind some application to always open on that workspace. Or you just get a habit of putting specific applications to only specific workspaces. Your…
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on “Hyprland Crash Course”Submitted How to Patch a Package Source on NixOS as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYou may want to try this: https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-con...
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on “Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way”Submitted How to Patch a Package Source on NixOS as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFor the non-initiated, who also have experience with the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora, I made an overview of NixOS in this article, which also provides a guidance on how to bootstrap a functional desktop system: https://drakerossman.com/blog/nixos-for-apt-yum-users-a-gift... Also discussing flakes in some other articles of mine.
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on “Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way”Submitted Hybrid Teams Are the Worst as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf you don't mind, a shameless plug: https://drakerossman.com/blog/nixos-for-apt-yum-users-a-gift... I am doing a similar series of NixOS-related stuff, currently got only a single article out, yet quite "meaty". You may want to check it out for a more streamlined approach in learning nix/NixOS which also compares it to familiar concepts from other Linux distributions. Will be releasing way more complete articles in…
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on “Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix”Submitted Interview with CTO of ListenField AgTech: Introducing NixOS to Organization as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFear not, these are configuration options for a project called Home Manager, which manages your user configuration and dotfiles with the help of Nix the package manager: https://drakerossman.com/blog/how-to-add-home-manager-to-nix...
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on “Nix Home Manager Option Search”Submitted Nix on macOS – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm writing a book about NixOS, you may track the progress here: https://drakerossman.com/blog/practical-nixos-the-book It's more NixOS oriented, but most of the knowledge is obviously transferable to a bare-bones (if one could say that) Nix installation on top of other OSes. With regards to all the Nix/NixOS documentation already out there, I'm trying to keep my stuff extremely straight-forward and rather simplisti…
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on “The Determinate Nix Installer”Submitted NixOS for Apt/Yum Users: A Gift That Keeps on Giving as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat I see as a barrier for entry to Nix/NixOS is not the UX, but the available documentation, or lack of thereof. One may consider the docs being part of UX though. I am in the process of writing a book about NixOS, you may track the progress here: https://drakerossman.com/blog/practical-nixos-the-book The emphasis is on how to make it as practical as possible, plus cover the topics which may apply to Linux in gene…
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on “20 Years of Nix”Submitted Hybrid Teams Are the Worst as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou may want to read my blog post [1] on that one. It explains exactly how to install Sway with Home Manager. And no, it is not a design error to have Home Manager separated from nixpkgs, and unlike a child reply suggests, there's no "schism", and the reasons for separation are rather prosaic, as explained in another blog post of mine [2]. [1] https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-con... [2] https…
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on “NixOS Impermanence”Submitted Nix on macOS – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://drakerossman.com Mostly Nix/NixOS, some Rust, some management, some architecture. But mostly NixOS, for which I am writing a book.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Wayland on NixOS, or: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've got a lot of drafts (counting in the low hundreds), but I am not quite for publishing unfinished stuff. So this year I'm going heavy on publishing that. In addition, I have several projects on my mind I'll be working on this year: - A browser extension for HN written in WASM (Rust) - A book about NixOS - Want to finally set a start up, hopefully, I'll have something to show within 2 months I also have a newslet…
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?”Submitted Nix on macOS – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hybrid Teams Are the Worst as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hybrid Teams Are the Worst as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix on macOS – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacker News Userscript Written in Rust WASM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Home Manager on NixOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Convert Default NixOS to NixOS with Flakes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snippet-Driven Development: My Snippets Are My Thinking Process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoid Learning Things That Do Not Compound as a story · 2 points
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