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Red Tomato's Blog

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Red Tomato's Blog is a personal blog at tech.aufomm.com about programming and systems. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link the author's post on using Nix with Ubuntu, shared as a resource for people encountering Nix for the first time. Comments only link it and do not judge the writing.

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.

This blog is about the things that I learnt randomly. The main focus would be on server deployment, network security etc.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nice, I didn't know nix could be used on any distro; I only knew about it from my friend who's a nixos enthusiast. Few links I found, for anyone else encountering this for the first time: https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos/ https://tech.aufomm.com/my-nix-journey-use-nix-with-ubuntu/ https://jeancharles.quillet.org/posts/2023-02-07-The-home-ma... https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/16tdugd/…

    Comment linking /my-nix-journey-use-nix-with-ubuntu/

    on “Ask HN: How do you sync or migrate KDE settings?”
  2. Submitted GitOps for Kubernetes with Nixidy and ArgoCD as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
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    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Favorite Little Corners of the Internet?”
  4. Submitted GitOps for Kubernetes with Nixidy and ArgoCD as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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