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Matthew Bauer
Personal blog · matthewbauer.us/blog · on HN as matthewbauerprogrammingsystems
Matthew Bauer's personal blog at matthewbauer.us covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Static Nix: a command line Swiss Army knife”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matthew Bauer's posts on Nix and NixOS, such as the NixIOSK kiosk project, Darwin stdenv updates and static Nix installs. Commenters cite them as references and do not judge them.
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.
Matthew Bauer's personal website and portfolio with projects utilizing Nix and Emacs
Most-linked posts?
- Static Nix: a command line Swiss Army knife2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-24
- Beginner’s guide to cross compilation in Nixpkgs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-28
- Nixiosk - NixOS kiosk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-24
What Hacker News says?
That's more a problem of docker than NFS though. You probably would be better if you just use it traditionally or use something like NixOS. There was a project that I read about a while ago: https://matthewbauer.us/blog/nixiosk.html
Comment linking /blog/nixiosk.html
on “Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB”Submitted Show HN: GameTime – JS emulator supporting SNES and GBA as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> But I believe libc is fundamentally a “hole” in the sandboxing of Nix, at least on OS X. Nix doesn't sandbox builds on macOS at all by default, and turning sandboxing on breaks some builds: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/1821 But the libc issue goes deeper. This blog post has some explanation: https://matthewbauer.us/blog/darwin-stdenv-update.html > Linux is unique among operating systems due to the fact that t…
Comment linking /blog/darwin-stdenv-update.html
on “Hacking anything with GNU Guix”Submitted Show HN: GameTime Player – a web based emulator supporting SNES and GBA roms as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is a good overview of NixOS however it's very limited and barely scratches the surface of what Nix can do. I consider it a complete replacement for the "reproducible environment" problem that some programming languages solve (e.g. Python's virtualenv, Haskell's cabal repl), among others. A simple example of this is when I want to run a Python script from the internet, I can execute nix-shell --run "python3 foo.…
Comment linking /blog/beginners-guide-to-cross.html
on “One Week of NixOS”Submitted Bauer: An Emacs+Nix IDE as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have to say that resume doesn’t look very good to me. Way too long lines and not enough white space. Maybe that’s part of the strategy though? This whole ATS thing annoys me because it seems like such a shallow way to hire. But maybe that’s what you need to get into Big 5 tech companies now? For anyone interested in what I’d consider cleaner: here is my Latex resume https://matthewbauer.us/resume.pdf I worry now i…
Comment linking /resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: Resumes that look good but professional too”Submitted Subjective ranking of build systems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAFAIK root access is only needed once for setting up the /nix directory during installation. It is however possible to install nix stuff on systems where you have no root access: https://matthewbauer.us/blog/static-nix.html (Requirement: namespaces for users)
Comment linking /blog/static-nix.html
on “Setting up a C++ project environment with nix”Submitted Static Nix: a command line Swiss Army knife as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://matthewbauer.us
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Nixiosk - NixOS kiosk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoid Subshells as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Nix: A Command-Line Swiss Army Knife as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beginner’s guide to cross compilation in Nixpkgs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Channel Changing with Nix as a story · 1 points
HN discussion