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Samuel Dionne-Riel

Personal blog · samuel.dionne-riel.com/blog · on HN as samueldrprogrammingsystems

Samuel Dionne-Riel's personal blog at samuel.dionne-riel.com covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Nix Flakes is an experiment that did too much at once”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

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samueldr · 131 karma · member since 2012

Site: https://samuel.dionne-riel.com/ Main projects: - https://mobile.nixos.org/ - https://tow-boot.org/

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  1. Nix Flakes is an experiment that did too much at once
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. > BTW, one thing I don't want to see happen to any of these distros is for PinePhone to be the only actually solid device. I share the same concern. I've been elevating the different platforms about equally. This is why there's so many "unfinished" ports. They are approximatively at equal support, but the crucial thing is that I helps me validate assumptions. I wrote a bit about that on my personal blog[0]. In fact,…

    Comment linking /blog/2020/04/24/mobile-nixos-breadth-first-development.html

    on “Mobile NixOS”
  2. Submitted Mobile NixOS: The Present and the Future as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted It's not about "Flakes vs. Channels" as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Nix Flakes is an experiment that did too much at once as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Nix Flakes is an experiment that did too much at once as a story · 1 points

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