Bas Nijholt

I have had this debate many times, so I am finally writing it down.

IonQ is the world’s leading vertically integrated, full-stack quantum platform company.

I open https://mealie.lab.nijho.lt on my phone to look up a recipe.

Two years ago I wrote about friend-to-friend backups with TrueNAS.

Last week, every AI newsletter I get was full of Jev, a new model from TypeSafe.

I have run coding agents in YOLO mode since I started using them in May 2025.

On a recent month-long trip visiting family in Europe, I did a lot of work from my phone, using my mobile coding workflow.

My GPU machine was the last machine in my fleet still running btrfs.

TrueNAS was the last non-NixOS machine in my home lab.

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I’ve gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus I have officially decommissioned my Proxmox cluster.

The CUDA compilation nightmare: how I solved 18-hour builds with NixOS I recently migrated my entire fleet to NixOS (read my full migration story).

Table of Contents The draft I never published The original trigger: broken models The catalyst: dual GPUs and control API compatibility and the “switch” My NixOS setup Compiler flags matter What I gained (and lost) Advantages of llama-swap + llama.cpp The…

I’m a huge fan of agentic coding.

I have hundreds of private journal entries stored locally, many with incorrect date formats.

Table of Contents Why I switched Split ergonomic keyboards: What makes them different?

I am dictating this post at ten kilometers altitude on a flight home from Mexico, Blink Shell open on my iPhone, while an agentic assistant on my NixOS machine writes an initial draft for this post.

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Introduction: The Dependency Dilemma 🤔 I just listened to a podcast “Build software that lasts!”

Over years of building software, from scientific simulation tools like Adaptive and pipefunc to package management packages like unidep, I’ve found myself preferring a certain coding style: using small, focused functions more than large classes with compl…

Introduction Many of us spend a significant amount of time in the terminal.

Combining Keychain and 1Password CLI for SSH Agent Management For about a decade, I’ve relied on two key tools in my development workflow: Funtoo Keychain for managing my ssh-agent and 1Password for securely storing secrets.

I tried “vibe coding” for 3 hours, my application worked, but then I spent 15 hours fixing it That’s not an exaggeration—it’s really what happened.

In my previous post about terminal productivity, I shared a setup combining tools like zsh, oh-my-zsh, zsh-z, and various plugins to create a highly efficient command-line environment.

How I Use LLMs in My Daily Workflow Over the past 1.5 years, I’ve developed a workflow for integrating Large Language Models into my daily life, particularly for open source software development.

Understanding GPL for Python Packaging Over the last 10 years–since I started working on and with open source projects–the GPL topic has frequently come up with friends and colleagues.

While trying to demonstrate my pipefunc package (a tool for automating computational pipelines), I hit a common presentation problem: how do you effectively walk through code without endless repetition?

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