Jake Hamilton

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JavaScript fanboy and expert in bug creation at Replit.

Be excellent to each other.

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2024-09-04 15:54:50

Thank goodness for vim macros...

2024-09-03 03:18:28

What are your absolute requirements for a #NixOS installer? Not just things you would like to have, but the things that absolutely must be there. I am trying to solve for the most foundational pieces that we can get away with.

2024-08-24 12:11:07

If I were to record a podcast, what questions would you like to be answered? What would you like to hear me talk about?
All suggestions welcome!

2024-08-15 08:15:26

I am a firm believer in the idea that I don't think most games should have contact damage. Allow me to, over the course of an unknown number of posts, persuade you...

2024-08-02 23:18:39

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@npub1g8e…qdqf every few weeks I consider making a matrix client... Element is just... not what I want.

2024-07-18 12:46:25

Kagi is a breath of fresh air

2024-07-15 19:13:56

Maybe the real nixpkgs was the friends we made along the way

2024-07-11 10:08:30

I'm considering contract work starting next month. Please shoot me an email if you think there is something I can help you / your company with! I do front end web development, know my way around containers and Kubernetes, and know far too much about Nix these days.
You can reach me via contact information on my website: https://jakehamilton.dev
Or directly via email: jake (dot) hamilton (at) hey (dot) com

2024-07-11 09:24:01

Thinking a lot about the importance of different software traits. Is it more important to have something fast than something easy to use? Is it better for it to be extraordinarily complex but extendable than simple and opinionated?
I have some thoughts, but I am curious to hear what others think.

2024-07-11 08:21:26

What a release!
Faster, more stable, easier to use, and some helpful features?! Awesome work to everyone who worked on #Lix, you've done a fantastic job!
#Nix #NixOS
https://lix.systems/blog/2024-07-10-lix-2.90-release/

2024-07-02 21:40:05

Why is it a bad thing to have a "no politics" policy? Well, because some people *existing* is considered political and therefore excluded. Here is a dev saying that the pronouns they/them are political and it's instead non-political to only use he/him: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24647#issuecomment-2203925118

2024-07-02 07:49:08

Btw if people are looking at making a #nixos fork feel free to get in touch.
Aux has been focused on building a bottom-up replacement for things. In particular I would point to the labs repo which has a replacement for nixpkgs lib, a binary bootstrap up to a modern cpp toolchain, and the beginning of a larger package set using the module system (though I am still working on that last one).
https://git.auxolotl.org/auxolotl/labs

2024-06-29 06:41:15

Think I may go back to gnome...

2024-06-29 02:04:31

babe wake up you've gotta listen to this song, it fucking slaps
https://youtu.be/By5kBezU_T0?si=TjO8VtVGbPqALHgO

2024-06-18 09:17:22

Went through the emacs tutorial the other day. Some of the functionality is pretty cool. The base movement feels less simple than vim bindings, but certain things like being able to move in a sentence-aware way is neat.
The introduction is also significantly better than vim. You actually get instructions on how to get help, open the tutorial, get info on available commands, and most importantly exit the damn thing.
Immediate impressions? Pretty good.

2024-06-11 17:01:02

The samurai champloo soundtrack is just so damn good
https://youtu.be/YeS3PDfUeqM?si=Eq02LHvRPqZyxF9O

2024-05-23 11:07:07

Okay, I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you write a story where your character experiences an absolutely insane, completely unprecedented event that radically changes the fundamental laws of the universe... they should stop to ask "what the hell just happened" at some point. If they don't, your character just looks like an oaf.

2024-05-12 05:21:12

I'm the idiot that waves when I end a phone call

2024-05-08 07:53:52

Posting this one again because I was thinking about it again
https://kilo.bytesize.xyz/the-tools-which-define-us

2024-04-29 18:05:58

I like #Nix, I do not like what has happened to it. #NixOS is an incredible technology and it deserves better. Nobody else has started the process so I guess I have to be the one to do it. We are forking. I would rather try and fail alongside all the people who love Nix but were pushed away from the project than give up.
https://aux.computer/

2024-04-27 21:44:52

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@npub1avr…pnem uh, yeah, so you're agreeing with me then?
> To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting the right to learn, and share what we learn with others.

2024-04-27 21:19:03

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@npub1avr…pnem you might want to do some more reading before weighing in here.
https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

2024-04-27 18:27:01

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@npub1avr…pnem my dude you joined an instance named "foss". The free software movement exists explicitly as a response to capitalism. The idea itself is a political stance.

2024-04-22 07:42:33

Award for the dumbest thing I've read on the internet this last week: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/https-save-nix-together-org/43858/8?u=jakehamilton

2024-04-07 20:04:09

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@npub166y…6dc6 oh, sorry, I'm not asking about what Sway may do, but rather what you would want from a desktop environment.

2024-04-07 17:08:52

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@npub166y…6dc6 should it have anything else by default?

2024-04-07 16:14:01

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@npub166y…6dc6 would you expect it to have a default mod key? And if so, should it then also have a key bind for launching a terminal with it?

2024-04-07 15:39:04

How much configuration should a desktop based on a window manager have? Some things are easier to lock down: theme, panels, etc. But what about keybindings? Does it make sense to include a full opinionated set? Just some fundamental ones? Or none at all (rendering the desktop unusable unless configured by the user)?

2024-03-25 02:49:11

The latest edition of #NixPkgsNews is out!
https://nixpkgs.news/
I've now included a separate security section, an about page, a link to the rss feed, and added a note above the auto-generated posts to explain how they were created. Please let me know if there is anything else that would be useful!
#Nix #NixOS #NixPkgs

2024-03-04 03:47:05

The latest recap is out! I've made some changes from last time, please let me know if there are things I can do to improve it!
https://nixpkgs.news/
#Nix #NixOS #NixPkgs #NixPkgsNews

2024-02-27 12:40:40

In case you missed last week's #Nix recap:
https://nixpkgs.news/archive/2024-02-25/
As well, what do you think about these generated recaps? Are they useful? Do you think they would benefit from changes? what would be good to add or do differently if I were to instead write them each week? Feedback welcome! This is an experiment I wanted to try and I'm feeling it out as I go.

2023-09-29 10:19:47

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@npub1hg2…k372 runtime isolation, orchestration, “process” management, etc. There are lots of problems that Nix doesn’t solve on its own.

2023-08-18 09:41:32

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@npub1dvd…h0ph You've heard of Highly Available, now here's Mostly Available

2023-08-03 02:59:27

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@npub1dvd…h0ph I have a friend who works remotely and makes 300k+. Big company with enormous profit (including now).

2023-07-22 22:53:15

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@npub1wx0…ce0l @npub1e2p…aqmc Yeah, did you mean to do `${pkgs.git}/bin/git` instead?
Checking the journal would probably give a message as well: `journalctl -xe - u system-check.service`

2023-07-07 02:23:29

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@npub1e2p…aqmc at some point I just started running `, some-new-command` and never looked back. It's just worked every time I've tried. Truly magic.