Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way

• nixos-config

  35 976 9.9 Nix

  Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨ (by dustinlyons)

I tried to make Nix as easy to adopt as possible by creating Nix commands and a step by step guide: https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config

I love Nix. I use it every day to manage multiple local dev environments. And I use devenv instead of docker for sharing project-specific environments with others.

• devenv

  88 3,410 9.8 Nix

  Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments

  

Although Guix reads better than Nix (after all, it's Lisp), I found the support and resources available for learning severely lacking.

Plus, you have to jump through hoops to install non-free software, which goes against the ethos of Guix anyway.

IMHO, Nix is clearly "the winner" here and we'll see more and more adoption as it improves. Lots of folks are doing exciting work (see https://determinate.systems/, https://devenv.sh/, https://flakehub.com/). And the scale and organization around nixpkgs is damn impressive.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Jovian-NixOS

  10 397 9.6 Nix

  Discussions: https://matrix.to/#/#Jovian-Experiments:matrix.org

  

Same. Also recently added a steam deck to the fleet with https://jovian-experiments.github.io/Jovian-NixOS/

• homebrew-emacs-plus

  68 2,184 8.1 Ruby

  Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

I am intrigued by this line in the description:

"Super Fast Emacs: Bleeding edge Emacs that fixes itself, thanks to a community overlay"

Could you possibly tell me (or link to the explanation) what's special about that Emacs instance? (I'll update this comment if I find a link myself)

I use this homebrew cask and have been very happy with it thus far, but I'm always up for some new exploration. https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

• nixos-musings

  1 22 5.3 Nix

Could you tell me your secrets in achieving so many stars?

I have a similar albiet differently-structured guide at https://github.com/drakerossman/nixos-musings, but nowhere near the amount of stars you have.

• emacs-overlay

  34 459 10.0 Nix

  Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]

  

The project uses this overlay: https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay

What that means is if something is broken in Emacs, the community will fix it, and all I need to do is run `nix flake update` to grab the latest commit and then `nix run .#build-switch` to alter my system. Easy.

Thanks for the heads-up on the 404s! I've fixed those links.

In re: to org-agenda, I don't use that as much anymore. But I heavily, heavily using org-roam w/ org-roam-dailies everyday to build my own networked graph of notes. For tasks, nowadays I just use simple docs for projects and Asana to keep a catalog of everything.

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