GFX::Monk

This post summarises some recent experiments and learnings around concurrency & Koka.

It’s been a while since I’ve been excited about a new programming language.

I’ve long considered fluency in Nix to be a superpower that pays off way more than you might imagine, if you haven’t experienced it yourself.

Off-topic for this blog, but I have done a few indoor skydiving sessions over the past year at iFLY Melbourne.

I don’t blog much these days, apparently I just use it to announce roughly one new thing each year.

I think nix is fantastic.

chored is a utility for handling repetitive chores and files.

Update: Doing things my own way is too much effort, I just use niv these days :) My last post was more than a year ago, in which I described my long journey towards better package management with nix.

Update: Doing things my own way is too much effort, I just use niv these days :) This post is targeted at users of nix who write / maintain package derivations for software they contribute to.

Often you need to progressively build up a set of commandline arguments in bash, like so: FLAGS="" if [ -n "$LOGFILE" ]; then FLAGS="$FLAGS --log $LOGFILE" fi someprogram $FLAGS ...

(cross-posted on the Zendesk Engineering blog) We use Ruby a lot at Zendesk, and mostly it works pretty well.

or, “I’ve written a lot of software, and now I have regrets” As time goes on, people write more software.

For the past few months, Joe Duffy has been blogging about the most interesting aspects of the design and implementation of Midori, a now-abandoned research OS from Microsoft Research, which has been incredibly interesting to follow.

Well, it’s been a little while (something like 10 years) since I’ve done any 3d rendering.

TL;DR: install nix and Xephyr, then try this script.

Just a quick heads up, in case anyone comes here looking for verification: I’ve changed my twitter & github handle from @gfxmonk to @timbertson.

I’ve been aware of transducers for a little while, but haven’t actually used them, or even really felt like I fully grokked what they were good for.

I use fish-shell as my default shell on my own computer, because it’s a pretty nice shell.

It’s the new year, and it seems to be a vibrant time for novel Operating System technologies.

If I had my way, I would never deploy or administer a linux server that isn’t running NixOS.