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oppi.li
Personal blog · peppe.rs/postsprogramming
oppi.li is a personal blog at peppe.rs about programming. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Programming on 34 Keys”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on Nix flake templates, which commenters cite as a way to create reusable project environment boilerplate for languages like Go and Rust.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Programming on 34 Keys2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-29
- Auto-Currying Rust Functions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-09
- Self-Hosting Git2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-17
- Gripes with Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-01
- /posts/novice_nix:_flake_templates/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-07
What Hacker News says?
Nix flakes have a template concept where you can create a boilerplate nix flakes environment including shells, etc. You can make your own for each language environment you need and then use them to create a flake config in a folder that's ready to go with the shells you need: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3... and https://peppe.rs/posts/novice_nix:_flake_templates/
Comment linking /posts/novice_nix:_flake_templates/
on “Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix”Submitted Programming on 34 Keys as a story · 82 points
HN discussionNowadays, every one of my projects starts with a flake.nix file. I even have templates ( https://peppe.rs/posts/novice_nix:_flake_templates/ ) fo archetypes of projects, like a Go, Rust, GTK project, etc... I love that flakes allow you to decouple a package from nixpkgs and place it in your repo, but in order to fully realize this dream, there needs to be a proper index of these packages, as well as non-experimental…
Comment linking /posts/novice_nix:_flake_templates/
on “Our Roadmap for Nix”Submitted Self-Hosting Git as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming on 34 Keys as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightweight Linting with Tree-Sitter as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gripes with Go as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plain Text Journaling in Vim as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Curing a Case of Git-UX as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lotus58 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-Currying Rust Functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snip Snap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Hosting Git with Cgit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gripes with Go as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Color Conundrum (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-Currying Rust Functions: A Guide to Rust's Procedural Macros as a story · 1 points
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