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First the commands and then we will discuss the why and how. # Usage: # nix-exec PKG CMD [ARG]... nix-exec() { local thepkg="$1" shift local thecmd="$1" shift nix-shell -p "$thepkg" --run "exit 0" if [ "$?"

Since June 2024 I’ve been operating a mirror for Zig releases at http://mirrors.nektro.net/zig/. https://github.com/mlugg/setup-zig was testflighting what would eventually become the https://ziglang.org/download/community-mirrors/ system and I wanted a br…

Lately I’ve been building some side projects using USWDS, or US Web Design System and it has been going great.

There have been quite a few number of times where the default layout algorithm of the <table> element has surprised me.

As an avid contriubtor to open source, I accrue a lot of branches in my local Git repos.

As an avid contriubtor to open source, both in my own repositories and others', I interact with Git a lot and need to submit changes to those projects.

As an avid contriubtor to open source, both in my own repositories and others', I interact with Git a lot and need to submit changes to those projects.

As an avid contriubtor to open source, both in my own repositories and others', I interact with Git a lot and need to submit changes to those projects.

Hey y’all, in our last installment I showed off the first “real application” coming out of Magnolia Desktop and today I wanted to show some screenshots for a new app aptly named ImageViewer.

https://mastodon.social/@nektro/110857823907433264 I’ve been working on a nice catalog of demos for Magnolia Desktop, but it now has reached a point where I made real app: Calculator This has been a long time coming since my first introductory post to Mag…

As the developer of a source package manager (for the reference point of this article) rather than one of a system package manager (eg apt, apk, pacman, nix) it is very easy for me to prioritize the users who only build their apps from source by running z…

One of the biggest factors in how intimidating something is is how little you know about it.

So what is “living at HEAD” ?

As of today I have moved the handful of articles I had published on https://nektro.mataroa.blog/ off and transferred them back here as well as updated my GitHub profile to point back to this site.

Originally published on https://nektro.mataroa.blog/ Well hello friends!

Originally published on https://nektro.mataroa.blog/ Hello all!

Originally published on https://nektro.mataroa.blog/ Send Inbox > Write Options > Delivery Format > Plain Text Only Compose From the main menubar, Edit > Account Settings Go to “Composition & Addressing” Un-check “Compose messages in HTML format”

Originally published on https://nektro.mataroa.blog/ This is a very nice site and pretty in line with what Ive been looking for lately. mlog.nektro.net will likely still have its uses but Hugo/git based blog feels like a lot of friction that I feel stops…

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The original creation date on this article is 17 Jan 2022 and I’ve been running NixOS 21.05 since then.

This post assumes you’ve already read Generating a PGP key.

This post assumes you’ve already read Generating a PGP key.

For this we’ll be using GnuPG, aka GPG, which is a common implementation of the PGP spec. $ gpg --full-generate-key As this will be your master key, make sure to pick RSA and RSA, 4096 bits, and does not expire for the generation options.

Vagrant is an application to enable you to programmatically control VM’s Hashicorp calls Vagrant Boxes.

First, services: analytics: image: milesmcc/shynet ports: - "8080" environment: DB_NAME: shynet_analytics DB_USER: postgres DB_PASSWORD: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} DB_HOST: postgres DB_PORT: "5432" ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION: none TIME_ZONE: America/Los_Angeles…

services: nginx-proxy: image: jwilder/nginx-proxy:alpine volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro - .

Run $ sudo dmesg | grep 'firmware load for' | grep 'failed with error' $ sudo dmesg | grep 'firmware: failed to load' This will search your diagnostic kernel logs for failed firmware loads and will produce lines that look similar to the following [ 53.168…