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Luc Perkins
Personal blog · lucperkins.dev/blogprogrammingsystems
Luc Perkins's personal blog at lucperkins.dev covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a writeup of Materialize, a continuously updated database, in a funding thread, and cited as a source on home-manager's learning curve in a Homebrew discussion.
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.
Developer relations, Nix, Rust, databases, and more
What Hacker News says?
I use nixpkgs and home-manager for a consistent package management and configuration across MacOS and Linux (NixOS), which others also reported great success [1]. As noted in the article [1], home-manager has a steeper learning curve, but is much more powerful (e.g., supports providing development dependencies and environment, or even extend to Ops). For the interested, search for some variants of “homebrew home-man…
Comment linking /blog/home-manager/
on “Homebrew 3.0”Submitted Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing as a story · 473 points
HN discussionIt’s woefully out of date (including my current employer) but it was a fun project. https://lucperkins.dev Hugo for static site generation, Bulma CSS, hosted on Netlify.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Tract: A Hugo theme for ambitious documentation projects as a story · 179 points
HN discussionHere's a nice writeup of Materialize: https://lucperkins.dev/blog/new-db-tech-1/#materialize Not really mentioned here, but in standard postgres it might be quite expensive to update the view so you can only do it periodically. Materialize keeps that up-to-date continuously.
Comment linking /blog/new-db-tech-1/
on “Materialize Raises a $32M Series B”Submitted From Homebrew to Home Manager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Service Mesh Use Cases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new way forward for technical documentation? Pt. 1: the problematic status quo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tract: A Hugo theme for ambitious documentation projects (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Service Mesh Use Cases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The easiest way (I've found) to create your own Nix channel as a story · 1 points
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