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• Dagger Shell: Unix Pipeline Pattern for Typed API Objects

  Is the objective to get inside a container to do dev stuff? Reminds me of https://www.jetify.com/devbox and https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years

  I think it's a bad addition since it pushes people towards a worse solution to a common problem. Using "go tool" forces you to have a bunch of dependencies in your go.mod that can conflict with your software's real dependency requirements, when there's zero reason those matter. You shouldn't have to care if one of your developer tools depends on a different version of a library than you. It makes it so the tools... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

  I think that's a bit reductive, but I get the intent. A lot of people see systemic problems in their development and turn to tools to reduce the cognitive load, busywork, or just otherwise automate a solution. For example "we always argue over formatting" -> use an automated formatter. That makes total sense as long as managing/interacting with the tool is less work, not just different work. With Nix I still think... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• UV has a killer feature you should know about

  Try flox [0]. It's an imperative frontend for Nix that I've been using. I don't know how to use nix-shell/flakes or whatever it is they do now, but flox makes it easy to just install stuff. [0]: https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Developing Inside a Virtual Machine

  If you like NixOs and virtual development environments, perhaps try https://www.jetify.com/devbox or https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Developing with Docker

  Agreed. Packaging is different than deployment. Devs should return to the art of packaging, such that their software can be then deployed into containers, VMs, micro VMs, whatever. That is what packaging allows, re-use. This is the sort of behavior Nix encourages (disclaimer: I work at https://flox.dev , using Nix as our baseline tech). Docker as both a packaging and deployment format can carry a bit of weight,... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager

  Flox is the best thing I know of for articulating binary dependencies (language runtimes, etc.), which is probably the sweet spot for nix anyways at the moment. Flox uses nix for its backend, but has a simple TOML syntax and is properly humble about what it can do -- but killer at it -- as opposed to promising the world. https://flox.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

  Nix and NixOS are in something like the state git was in before GitHub: the fundamental idea is based on more serious computer science than the status quo (SVN, Docker), the plumbing still has some issues but isn’t worse, and the porcelain and docs are just not there for mainstream adoption. I think that might have changed with the release of flox: https://flox.dev, it’s basically seamless (and that’s not... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago