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Jonas Chevalier
Personal blog · zimbatm.comprogrammingsystems
Jonas Chevalier writes zimbatm, a personal blog at zimbatm.com about programming and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Nix Packaging, the Heretic Way”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jonas Chevalier's DarkMode page, a survey of which websites offer a dark theme. Commenters cite it in the Firefox 67 discussion of prefers-color-scheme support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jonas Chevalier - Software engineer, creator of direnv, building Numtide.
Most-linked posts?
- Nix Packaging, the Heretic Way2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-06
- /DarkMode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-21
What Hacker News says?
If you look here, it does show "manual toggle" sites too: https://zimbatm.com/DarkMode#websites
Comment linking /DarkMode
on “Firefox 67.0 Released”Submitted Nix Packaging, the Heretic Way as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> I did a small survey and only very few websites have developed a second dark theme: https://zimbatm.com/DarkMode Add YouTube to this list, it's got a pretty good dark theme that can be easily enabled now.
Comment linking /DarkMode
on “Firefox 67.0 Released”Submitted Thousand Instances of Nixpkgs (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFirefox 67 also the first browser that ships with `prefers-color-scheme` (aka dark mode) after Safari. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... And it does the right thing and disables the feature when enabling the resist fingerprinting option. I did a small survey and only very few websites have developed a second dark theme: https://zimbatm.com/DarkMode
Comment linking /DarkMode
on “Firefox 67.0 Released”Submitted The NixOS “settings” option: when and how to use it as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Systemd and Kubernetes are examples of things that do a lot of re-implementation but are mostly better than the previous. I feel the same way about systemd, and I'll take your word for it with respect to Kubernetes. :) > "this really hard problem will be solved once we just re-implement everything inside our new system" [...] rarely works Yes. 100%. And this is definitely characteristic of Nix's ambition in some w…
Comment linking /notes/nix-packaging-the-heretic-way
on “Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)”Submitted This is my work-flow for contributing on GitHub as a story · 1 points
HN discussion