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Salar Rahmanian
Personal blog · softinio.com/postprogrammingai
Salar Rahmanian's personal blog at softinio.com covers programming and ai. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Homebrew 3.0 thread for an article on package and configuration management with nixpkgs and home-manager across macOS and Linux, as an alternative to Homebrew.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software Engineer based in San Francisco Bay Area
What Hacker News says?
I use nixpkgs and home-manager for a consistent package management and configuration across MacOS and Linux (NixOS), which others also reported great success [1]. As noted in the article [1], home-manager has a steeper learning curve, but is much more powerful (e.g., supports providing development dependencies and environment, or even extend to Ops). For the interested, search for some variants of “homebrew home-man…
Comment linking /post/moving-from-homebrew-to-nix-package-manager/
on “Homebrew 3.0”Submitted Unicomp New Model M Keyboard as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Checking Relevance with Verdict4s as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Data Surrender Trap: How Enterprises Are Losing Control in the AI Gold Rush as a story · 1 points
HN discussion