nix-prisma-example VS star-history

For the system, I like the devos template:

https://github.com/divnix/devos

The idea of flakes is how you define inputs, and you define the system (and packages, and shell etc.) in the outputs using the inputs. The inputs are git repos which point to other flakes. You can mix and match these as much as you want (see the devos repo for examples) and when you build the derivation, it generates a lockfile for exact commits in that point in time what were used in the given inputs.

You commit the lockfile and in the other systems where you pull your config from the repo, it uses exactly those commits and installs the same versions as you did in your other systems.

This was quite annoying and hard to do before flakes. Now it's easy.

The problem what people face with building their system as a flake is combining the packages so you can point to `jq` from the unstable nixos and firefox from the stable train. I think this aspect needs better documentation so it wouldn't be so damn hard to learn (believe me, I know). Luckily there are projects like devos that give a nice template for people to play with (with documentation!)

Another use for flakes is to create a development shell for your repo, an example what I did a while ago:

https://github.com/pimeys/nix-prisma-example

Either have `nix-direnv` installed, enter the directory and say `direnv allow`, or just `nix develop` and it will gather, compile and install the correct versions of packages to your shell. Updating the packages? Call `nix flake update` in the directory, commit the lockfile and everybody else gets the new versions to their shell.

I have some questions about the Github Star history, it's very unusual to see a ~1 year old with 20k+ stars.

It went from 6k to 15k+ stars in a few days around 2023 Christmas when global internet traffic is usually lowest, and I couldn't find any major social media posts or announcements around that time. If you're gonna buy stars don't buy 10k+ stars on one day, spread it out a bit!

https://star-history.com/#Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF&Date

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22stirling%22+%22PDF%22&sca...

That’s a great project you pulled off. From the time I starred it (10-12h ago I think), and upon re-checking this post, you gained 500+ stars lol.

Visualized in a chart with star-history: https://star-history.com/#nilsherzig/LLocalSearch

You can actively see a fresh "hype curve" in the transformer-debugger repo that was posted a couple days ago (https://github.com/openai/transformer-debugger) (star history https://star-history.com/#openai/transformer-debugger&Date).

Regardless of the repo's stars or how valuable it really is, at the time I saw it posted to HN, it had 1.6k stars/16 hours. What channel are people listening to to star it so quickly. I'm not implying any nefariousness, mind you, I'm only wondering where all the stargazers were referred from so fast and in such volume.

I’ve been releasing open-source projects for years now, and I’ve always wanted to see how fast my Github repo is growing compared to other successful repositories on https://star-history.com/. The problem is that on Star History, I’m unable to zoom into the graph, so a new repo that has 1,000 stars cannot be compared with a big repo that has 50,000 because you can’t see how the bigger repo does in its beginning. So, I asked GPT Pilot to build this functionality. It scrapes Github repos for stargazers, saves them into the database, plots them on a graph, and enables the graph to be zoomed in and out.

i'm a one man shop in montana, competing w/ Google, Vercel & Facebook for dev mindshare

if i did what everyone else does you never would have heard of htmx

https://star-history.com/#bigskysoftware/htmx&Date

also: https://star-history.com/#bigskysoftware/htmx&facebook/react...

Similar to http://star-history.com for GitHub repos, http://like-history.ai is a tool to help generate the like history of projects on HuggingFace.co

More details: https://twitter.com/Tim_Qian/status/1730245069259575485

yeah, he was the one that really started the madness:

https://star-history.com/#bigskysoftware/htmx&bigskysoftware...

his video posted on july 7th

Github star history graph of the batch:

https://star-history.com/#trpc/trpc&termux/termux-app&respon...