Nixos-Config VS advanced

If you're using flakes, you could look at my config where I use different versions of nixpkgs. You set the other version as an input and a nixpkgs overlay, and then you're able to say unstable.package-name to install the unstable package. Downgrading from unstable to stable should just work by changing the nixpkgs version I believe.

Here's the commit where I switched my config to Flakes: https://github.com/K1aymore/Nixos-Config/commit/bdaa0ba54c8f64ecdd529ad6782863fadbc46aef.

Understanding how your config works in the first week is pretty good I'd say. Example configs that search engines find always seem to be pretty complicated, maybe the people who do lots of complicated stuff are more likely to post their configs. And when you look at other people's configs you don't know how they organized it or which config files are important and which aren't, which makes it a bit harder to understand. My config isn't anything special but if you want I'll post it here.

For the hardware config file, if you only have one device you could just leave it with your other configs I guess. Because I share my config between devices what I do is I store my configs in /nix/cfg, and in /etc/nixos/config.nix I import /nix/cfg/pc.nix or laptop.nix or whichever per device. Then, in order to have /etc/nixos stored with the rest of my config, in /nix/cfg/impermanence/system.nix I link /nix/cfg/persist/${config.networking.hostName} with /etc/nixos, so like on my pc it uses /nix/cfg/persist/pc/etc/nixos and on my laptop it uses /nix/cfg/persist/laptop/etc/nixos. Now that I think about it that's a little unnecesarry, but I have adjusted my hardware config a bit so I like having it in my git repo with the rest of my config.

GitHub advanced search

GitHub's advanced search. GitHub advanced search provides tons of filters to find repos and issues according to our preferences. You can filter by language, extension, issue labels, number of stars/forks, etc. 🔗 Link - github.com/search/advanced

See https://github.com/search/advanced there are various date options

You can try playing around with advanced search.

Usually when I as a user want to check if a technology exists or is legit I do a GitHub search like a GitHub advanced search or a Google Advanced Search, and for the Google Advanced Search if I want it to search for things in GitHub I will put https://github.com/ in the "site or domain:" field. Google puts more popular results closer to the top so usually I would just click the first result and then look at the number of stars on GitHub and if the number is low (like less than 1000) it's not a sufficiently popular project. You could write code that automates the process of doing a Google Advanced Search or searching GitHub by using Selenium or maybe just making an API call or HTTP request then using something like BeautifulSoup to scrape the site (BeautifulSoup converts the site into an object that you can query). GitHub just uses plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without using a framework like React or Angular so it shouldn't be too hard to scrape.

Next, find a project that takes contributions (many do). You said you know TypeScript and JavaScript, so search for repositories in those languages. You can use GitHub's advanced search to search by language, just set the language to JavaScript or TypeScript and click search, you don't have to fill out anything else. Alternatively, if there's a tool or website you like to use, see if it's hosted on GitHub and check the "Issues" tab in the repository's main page.

Are you being sarcastic?

If not, GitHub recently updated their search feature and it's pretty good.

https://github.com/search/advanced

I can do an advanced search on GitHub: https://github.com/search/advanced, but I find it hard to find open issues in specific repos, that are not assigned to any one.

GitHub advanced search

I don't know for sure, but it might be possible for you to make the jump from hobby to professional. There are a lot of technical books on Amazon, there are various coding and programming communities and groups on Reddit and Facebooks, and there are lots of potential codebases that you could try working on on GitHub (I personally used GitHub advanced search at https://github.com/search/advanced ). Sometimes on GitHub they label coding issues for beginners with the "easy" label which you can search for using GitHub advanced search. Oh, and there are coding bootcamps which take a percentage of your income after you're hired, plus there are programs in the US like Revature and SkillStorm that will put you into a shitty junior coding position for two years at $15-$20 an hour but then if you do okay or good at that and get good references you can move to a non-junior level position after that at much better pay. In my experience you usually don't know how well you will perform at a job until after you actually have to do that job.