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Mike Nikles
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Mike Nikles writes www.mikenikles.com, a personal blog at mootoday.com about programming and career. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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There's an interesting alternative to Homebrew: Devbox It abstracts Nix in a way you don't have to know or learn anything about the Nix language. I wrote a few words on how I use it instead of Homebrew [1]. [1] https://mootoday.com/blog/i-replaced-homebrew-with-devbox https://mootoday.com/blog/i-replaced-homebrew-with-devbox
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on “Our audit of Homebrew”Submitted I Replaced Homebrew with Devbox as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've worked with remote dev environments for many years, including some time with one of the providers of such a service. It became clear to me that cloud-only is not the way to go, but instead a local-first, cloud-optional approach. https://mootoday.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-...
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on “Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment”Submitted I vibe-coded a database GUI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAll I can say when I see Homebrew: "I replaced Homebrew with Devbox" [1] [1] https://mootoday.com/blog/i-replaced-homebrew-with-devbox
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on “Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error”Submitted Instead of paternity leave, they ended my contract as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWorth noting some are cloud-only whereas others like Jetify's Devbox work locally and in the cloud. I wrote about that years ago and the article is as valid today as it was back then, IMHO. https://mootoday.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-...
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on “GitHub Codespaces Alternatives”Submitted Dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating a Node.js CLI to Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First Rust Crate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond the Bottom Line: The ROI of Investing in Developer Experience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted `curl` your landing page as a story · 1 points
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