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Julian Hofer
Personal blog · julianhofer.eu/blogprogrammingsystems
Julian Hofer's personal blog at julianhofer.eu covers programming and systems. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts about immutable Linux systems and running Nix on Silverblue. One points to a post on Nix on Silverblue as a way to keep the Nix configuration minimal. No comment judges the writing itself.
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.
What Hacker News says?
From my testing it seems to integrate well enough. Mind, I'm still only dipping my toes to Nix on Vanilla OS for now, but I could install `git` and I could run `git` directly without `flatpak run` and the likes. Optional dependencies seems to be an issue, though, as I needed to figure out what on my own I need to get thumbnails on Dolphin working correctly, but I might still be missing something that I'm supposed to…
Comment linking /blog/01-silverblue-nix/
on “Linux desktop leaders unite behind Flathub app store. Here's why”Submitted Scripting Is More Fun with Nushell as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHave you tried the nix package manager on silverblue? https://julianhofer.eu/blog/01-silverblue-nix/ This helps keep the (I agree, awful) configuration portion of nix minimal.
Comment linking /blog/01-silverblue-nix/
on “Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems”