@ajhalili20062DAY 32 (2025-12-13):
• Prepping for GitLab for Open-source Program renewal: gitlab.com/recaptime-dev/squad/meta/-/issues/8
• Considering whether to stick with JetBrains YouTrack for centralized issue tracking or switch to Atlassian Jira + Confluence (todo: apply to respective open-source programs once decided)
• Configuring ntfy.hackclub.community via env vars at Doppler before actually running the thing on #C056WDR3MQR|.
• Weekly NixOS unstable system upgrades on both my docked laptop + homelab box later tonight
@tacy0day 28 of 50 days to 2026!!!
I got to do a long study sesh with a few friends focusing on Calc and C++ which was fun. One of my friends ended up writing out a hilarious short story prompt for a program that we wrote to test all of our concepts.
I also released bore today with a youtube video for it! It is a super fancy reverse proxy tunnel manager like ngrok but running entirely on my own infra! It is based around the open source frp software which is great on its own but a bit annoying to use in the oneshot command type way I was used to with ngrok. I wrapped the client cli in a nice gum interface and used nix to package it with a super fancy man page and shell completions!
Bore also has a really cool dashboard at bore.dunkirk.sh which shows active tunnels and how much data has been transferred along them as well as a few other stats. It also has a really fancy 404 page which I'm quite proud of.
Also working on my shell config I setup zmx which is a light weight tmux alternative that just keeps persistant sessions. It works quite well for my needs and I also set up ssh pooling so connections are next to instant now!
I also did a bit of work on crush adding support for refreshing api keys whenever encountering 401 errors. I also whipped up a quick nix flake for it as well and got that working!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztWxaYOL7E
@tacy0Day 16/17 of 50 days to 2026!
Wasn't able to make a post in time yesterday so rolling it into today. I've been working on getting some oracle cloud machines up and running again after loosing my main arm box about a year ago due to accidentally terminating the instance (that was a very sad day).
I didn't just want to run ubuntu on these vms though but rather be able to declaratively define everything in nix with nixos. It ended up taking a ton of trial and error but I finally did it! I now have one smaller amd box and a big powerful arm box with 4 cores and 24gb of ram!
I experimented with giving both vms ipv6 addresses at first but ended up running into some really weird issues where google's cdn would block go module downloads due to mis-geo locating the ip. Apparently bun also doesn't do well with ipv6 and takes forever to download packages so I ended up having to remove them sadly.
I moved cachet and hn-alerts onto the bigger box and set up an uptime kuma instance on the amd box with the plan for that to be a super stable box that just servers to monitor all of my other services. I'm considering installing wazuh on it as well and getting some interesting logs.
@ajhalili20062Days 7 of #C045S4393CY|: Too close to miss it, like what happened during the Slack outage, but I successfully rebuilt my nixos configuration with new packages and stuff
@nulladmin10Finally figured out how to set up secrets in a config file for Wakatime using sops-nix, even though it's atrocious. Sops-nix: 1, Me: 1
@nulladmin10Fought with sops-nix and systemd. Sops-nix:1, Me:0
@nulladmin10Might not seem like a lot, but i spent a lot of time configuring my nixos system and trying to find what causes it to sometimes blackout and my wifi to not autoconnect. Found out it was due to nvidia drivers (obvisouly) and KWallet.
@nulladmin10I created a nix flake template for flutter.
@nulladmin10I added a vimPlugins builder template to my nix-flake-templates repo, with documentation (which took me MORE TIME than the coding part 😭 )
@nulladmin10I started to work on a NixOS Home Manager module for Wakatime:
@Jupiter0Created a front-end for my WAS Map generator. The only steps remaining are to write a flake.nix and get it hosted on ta.rdis.dev.
@nulladmin10In my configuration for NixOS, I added declarative managing of secrets using Sops-nix and used it to set my brave sync code, ssh private key, and my user password. I'll add more stuff later, but this is it for now. Idk what to upload for a pic, so I'll upload a pic of my encrypted secrets.yaml file, which is public.
@GGORG0Hi everyone! This is my first project for High Seas, and also my first Yew.rs project - my new personal website! It's going great so far - I've already set it up, added a Nix flake, and got some basic (of course Catppuccin Mocha themed!) design going.
Nix integration with any sort of non-standard thing is an absolute pain though...
@nulladmin10I gave up on using a prebuilt neovim ide (called Lunarvim) and decided to configure my own using Nixvim. Today, I: Add Ruff, Rust-Analyzer, and Statix Linters; add lspBuf keymaps for hover, definition, and codeactions; add nvim-lint with popular lintersByFt for over 16 different languages using their own linters and using a nixpkgs instances to get their linting programs; add conform.nvim for formatting, with the same previous 16 different languages, again using a nixpkgs instance to get their formatting program; add formatonsave for conform.nvim; and add autocompletion and snippets through nvim-cmp, cmp-nvim-lsp, cmp-path, cmp_luasnip, cmd-cmdline, friendly-snippets, and luasnip. (Dang that was a lot to type out.) This is a screenshot of the formatting part, cuz idk what to show lmaoo. Repo:
@ABadlyDrawnWobbler0This shows 6 hours of work.
• 2 hours spent on trying to get Astal bindings to work (gir-rs is too WIP to use it properly)
• 2 hours setting up regular gtk and messing my way around with it + nix
• 2 hours setting up meson and blueprints to properly work
I can now actually work on trying to get this as a layer-shell
Work up @ github.com/Suyashtnt/commashell
@Neon0My nixos dotfiles :D
> github.com/NeonGamerBot-QK/nixos@Victorio0My nest configuration
Hello chat, this is my nest configuration/services ported to home-manager. this was a small project and very useful, it helps me be the real Nix user. It also includes a script that autodeploys my home-manager config on each push.
github.com/v1ctorio/nest@Ashton0I've created a fairly basic NixOS configuration for my laptop, using GNOME. It doesn't have many features right now, but it's fully functional with everything that is implemented, and I've been using it as a daily driver for quite a while.
Configuration is here, it's pretty simple, so hopefully, somebody might be able to use it as a starting point or for reference: github.com/UHDbits/nix-config
Screenshots of the basic setup are shown below
@yaanae0Are you a producer working on NixOS? Well, with Nix automatic Windows VSTs all your Windows VSTs can be easily managed through your configuration.nix! Moving or reinstalling a system? No problem! This should do it just alright!
@Noah0I continued working on my NixOS config, updating and testing the installer, fixing bugs and updating my walker app launcher config.
Config: github.com/Noah765/nixos-config
@ari0I decided to redo my laptop’s nix configuration (using nix-darwin and home-manager) and make it public! this also gave me a chance to remove a lot of unnecessary hacks/fixes and make the configuration a lot cleaner and structured.
github.com/ari-kl/darwin-nix-config@tacy0# REPOST
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I installed nix on my framework!!! I still need to finish up the list of tweaks i did but here's a rough list: hyprland with animations and pretty windows, waybar with a custom top bar and a really cool webcam module i made that detects whether an application is using your webcam, a super fast tofi dmenu launcher, vs code with a theme and go support (needs more expansion; currently its a very barebones install of vs code), spotify with spicetify configs, mako for notifications, fingerprint support that perfers password by default (really annoying nix behavior that its fingerprint first by default) this required a bunch of pam tweaks and was a pain, and best of all its all managed with flakes and my wifi passwords can be commited publicly because they are encrypted with agenix!
P.S. (Adendum?) i also did all of this while camping most of it over cellular on super bumpy Michigan roads while we were in the car for super long periods (~5 hours) i also discovered that the framework battery is almost perfectly 5 - 5.5 hours!P.P.S (doubular adendum??) i also attached a pic of my magnetic charging setup; i want to stick it into a framework module soon so it doesn't stick out but i'm pretty happy with it rngithub.com/kcoderhtml/dots@tacy0I installed nix on my framework!!! I still need to finish up the list of tweaks i did but here's a rough list: hyprland with animations and pretty windows, waybar with a custom top bar and a really cool webcam module i made that detects whether an application is using your webcam, a super fast tofi dmenu launcher, vs code with a theme and go support (needs more expansion; currently its a very barebones install of vs code), spotify with spicetify configs, mako for notifications, fingerprint support that perfers password by default (really annoying nix behavior that its fingerprint first by default) this required a bunch of pam tweaks and was a pain, and best of all its all managed with flakes and my wifi passwords can be commited publicly because they are encrypted with agenix!
P.S. (Adendum?) i also did all of this while camping most of it over cellular on super bumpy Michigan roads while we were in the car for super long periods (~5 hours) i also discovered that the framework battery is almost perfectly 5 - 5.5 hours!P.P.S (doubular adendum??) i also attached a pic of my magnetic charging setup; i want to stick it into a framework module soon so it doesn't stick out but i'm pretty happy with it rngithub.com/kcoderhtml/dots
@Noah0Today I basically finished my calculator plugin for the walker app launcher. I learned a lot about bash (e.g. about named pipes and heredocs), expect scripting and systemd services in the process.
Walker module in my config: github.com/Noah765/dots/blob/main/modules/walker.nix
@Noah0Today I continued working on my NixOS config. I am currently building a calculator plugin for the walker app launcher and learned a lot about named pipes (also known as FIFOs) and expect scripting.
Dots: github.com/Noah765/dots
@Noah0Today I continued to work on my NixOS config. I chose an app launcher, styled it and added some useful Nix tools.
Dots: github.com/Noah765/dots
@Noah0Today I continued to work on my NixOS config. I chose an app launcher, styled it and added some useful Nix tools.
Dots: github.com/Noah765/dots
@Caleb0Redid my entire Home Manager config in NixOS in order to simplify it and add all of it into my NixOS modules. This modularizes it more and makes it easier for other people to use!
github.com/techyporcupine/nixos-config
@Noah0Today I finished my fork of the Combined Manager project, a project that provides a new structure for NixOS configurations. My fork has some bug fixes, better error messages and additional features. This fork is part of my NixOS desktop setup project.
Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager
@Noah0I have more or less finished my fork of the combined manager project and migrated my nixos config to it.
Combined Manager Fork: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager
@Noah0I continued to work on my fork of the Combined Manager project, fighting some bugs in the nixos module system.
Post about the problem: discourse.nixos.org/t/problems-with-option-evaluation/48763
Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager@Noah0I continued working on my fork of the Combined Manager project, a project that provides a structure for NixOS configurations. My fork provides an even cleaner structure for NixOS configs, better error messages and some additional features. This fork is part of my NixOS desktop setup project.
Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager
@Noah0I continued working on my fork of the Combined Manager project, a project that provides a structure for NixOS configurations. My fork has a cleaner structure, better error messages and some additional features. This fork is part of my NixOS desktop setup project.
Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager
