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Mattia Gheda
Personal blog · ghedam.atprogrammingsystems
Mattia Gheda's personal blog at ghedam.at covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 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
HN readers link Mattia Gheda's posts as practical Nix guides, such as an introduction to nix-shell for creating shells with chosen packages. Commenters cite them as references rather than praising them.
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.
Thoughts on Software, NixOS, Elixir and self discovery
What Hacker News says?
It seems to use [Nix]( https://nixos.org ). In Nix you can use [nix-shell]( https://ghedam.at/15978/an-introduction-to-nix-shell ) to create a shell with the packages you want. For instance, to create a new shell with Python-2.7: ``` $ nix-shell -p python27 ```
Comment linking /15978/an-introduction-to-nix-shell
on “Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers”Submitted An Introduction to Nix-Shell as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSeems like Nix is having a bit of a moment. After devbox[1] was released I started looking into Nix, and there's a lot happening. I'm staying away from these Nix wrappers and learning how to do some basic nix-shell work, myself. Until it's proven the wrappers are adding real value, not just trying to hide scary scary Nix from devs who only feel safe in YAML files. For the curious, this post[2] describes mixing Nix a…
Comment linking /15502/speedy-development-environments-with-nix-and-docker
on “Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix”Submitted A Tour of Nix Flakes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Home Manager for Nix as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Productivity Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tour of Nix Flakes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Client-Server development environment as a story · 2 points
HN discussion