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nix-search-cli
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
- you may want to search from the command line
`nix search` is a cruel joke which doesn't allow searching by the name/program that would be installed, only package name, and requires a flake name every time. Absolutely terrible interface.
My tool is a single-install binary that performs fast and accurate search to help you find the right package name to install a given binary. I don't understand how after years of using other package managers anyone could want a search tool that does anything other than this by default.
For more details on why this exists, check out https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli#motivation
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Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
The nix package search website is OK, but it doesn't let you filter by the names of installed binaries. A lot of the time, you have a question like "what nixpkgs attribute do i install in order to get the `python3` command". I recently wrote a command line tool that allows you to do this. It uses the same elasticsearch index as the search website, but allows more powerful filtering. If anyone is thinking of getting into nix, please consider trying it out!
https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli
- Show HN: nix-search-cli: find Nix packages from the CLI
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TypeSpec: A New Language for API-Centric Development
If you are in a situation where you have a backend and you want to expose an API and then you would eventually want a client, you would need format specs as the starting point where server and clients are generated from that one source.
At the moment, OpenAPI with YAML is the only way to go but you can't easily split the spec into separate files as you would do any program with packages, modules and what not.
There are third party tools[0] which are archived and the libraries they depend upon are up for adoption.
In that space, either you can use something like cue language 1] or something like TypeSpec which is purpose built for this so yet, this seems like a great tool although I have not tried it yet myself.
[0]. https://github.com/APIDevTools/swagger-cli
[1]. https://cuelang.org/
EDIT: formating
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Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application
Where `kube.cue` sets reasonable defaults (e.g. image is /). The "cluster" runs on a mini PC in my basement, and I have a small Digital Ocean VM with a static IP acting as an ingress (networking via Tailscale). Backups to cloud storage with restic, alerting/monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, Caddy/Tailscale for local ingress.
[1] https://www.talos.dev/
[2] https://cuelang.org/
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Apple releases Pkl – onfiguration as code language
I've been somewhat surprised that CUE bills itself as "tooling friendly" and doesn't yet have a language server- the number one bit of tooling most devs use for a particular language.
I'm assuming it's becaus CUE is still unstable?
Anyway, if others are interested in CUE's LSP work, I think https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/issues/142 is the issue to subscribe to
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Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
This is where I usually pitch in with "Have your heard of CUELang, our lord and savior?": https://cuelang.org/
- Not turing complete
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10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
CUE: The core problem CUE solves is "type checking", which is mainly used in configuration constraint verification scenarios and simple cloud native configuration scenarios.
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Lua is a viable alternative for JSON
If you really want executable configurations please consider a newer language like https://dascript.org or https://cuelang.org which provide better type safety.
1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38030778
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Writerside – a new technical writing environment from JetBrains
Markdown and XML are nice, but what about more advanced documentation formats like OpenAPI? For one recent project, I set up automatic generation of the OpenAPI docs from (much more compact and flexible) CUE definitions (https://cuelang.org/) - which has the bonus of also being able to test the API against the definitions. JetBrains has a CUE plugin, but it's really barebones (doesn't even support jumping from the usage of a schema to its definition). Of course the possibilities when generating docs are endless (just think of the various syntaxes for doc comments, embedding examples/tests in source code etc.)...
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Show HN: Config-file-validator – CLI tool to validate all your config files
It doesn't include validators for TOML and INI, but if you're doing JSON and YAML, I would take a look at using or building upon CUE (https://cuelang.org/). It is a different take on schema definition (plus more), and is surprising terse and powerful model.
- That's a Lot of YAML
- An INI Critique of TOML
What are some alternatives?
nixbyexample - Learn nix by example
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
nixos-search - Search NixOS packages and options
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
buck2-nix - Do not taunt happy fun ball
terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
text - Haskell library for space- and time-efficient operations over Unicode text.
starlark-rust - A Rust implementation of the Starlark language
comma - Comma runs software without installing it. [maintainers=@Artturin,@burke,@DavHau]
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
dateilager - Shared and versioned filesystem manager
jsonnet-libs - Grafana Labs' Jsonnet libraries