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Vivekanandan KS (vivek)
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Nix and NixOS Geek Love Linux, FOSS, Devops etc❤️🙌 Exploring, Learning and Implementations quench my curiosity than anything else A passionate Linux and Nix guy😁 Love to solve problems Bassist on Hiatus Love Music, Anime, Good stories etc Basically a being who admires and love to be creative #nix #nixos #linux #FOSS #tamil #devops #tech #computer #desktop #freelance #anime #opensource
Hi All Checkout my recent project, which gives u the performance of CachyOS settings to NixOS. Combine it with cachyos kernels and nice rules given by Chaotic-nyx your system will be responsive and performant like CachyOS without switching to a separate #OS and try all of it in ur NixOS with just few lines😁 Please read the README for the vision and the guide in docs/ for full detail #nix #nixos #CachyOS #Linuxkernel #LinuxGaming #Linux #linuxdesktop #chaoticnyx
Hi All Nix, Guix users I want a better term to address #nix, #guix, #lix etc Coz whenever I mention something about Nix's benefits etc , I also mean guix, lix too So I'm hunting for a better term to address things in common. Coz Nix(and it's family is), #Declarative, #idempotent, #bit2bit #reproducible, #Immutable, #hermetic, #provenant, pure #functional, #incremental, #Atomic etc etc The terms I came up with are #Congruent eng, #Invariant eng, Pure Functional Eng. 🧵 #nixos #guixos
Hi All Recently, just few weeks back, after reading about the #nixmultiverse blog. I got inspired and wanted to explore the possibilities. So I vibe coded a project to test and prototype the design. It's called super-comma-nix. It's inspired by comma-nix. It's to let users try nix #shell, nix run commands more easily with shorthand instead of long commands. I have added nix output monitor & also added a #sandbox feature so far. 🧵 #nix #nixpkgs #supercommanix #ksv236
Hi All Please check this out 😳😳😳 This is just more than awesome🔥 Nix users might go crazy but non nix users will go crazier after realising it's potential. The world got a new set of possibilities now. Nix is already revolutionizing enough and this is just crazy 🔥 The post have a TLDR section at top. So go ahead and read for yourself and start looking at stuffs in a different way. #nix #nixos #nixpkgs #nixmultiverse #multiverse #webassembly #vm #cli #browser #web
Hi developers, One of the biggest anti-pattern I ever see is projects giving out simple generic environment variables names like: STORAGE_CACHE , CONFIG_DIR . I request developers to give a little more verbose names like: MYPROJECT_STORAGE_CACHE or something like that, even then it's bound to collide in future when some other dev used the same name. So please be more creative on this part. 🧵 #env #idea #brainstorm
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vivekanandanks 2 months ago
#Sable client for matrix looks super cool with zen browser and some extension 😍 #matrix #zen #browser image
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vivekanandanks 2 months ago
I feel like I have achieved something not when people learn from me. Coz Learning is easy & accessible with internet etc and that's not the important part. But the greater satisfaction and achievement personally is when I made some people curious about something. IMO it's much more valuable than other stuffs as curiosity is the solid foundation for any innovation, solution etc etc. 🧵 #nix #nixos #learning #passion #linux image
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vivekanandanks 2 months ago
My NixOS system update is satisfying and also informative to stare at. Thanks to #nom (#nix-output-monitor). Btw, I use nh which have nom etc builtin The most useful flag I use for system update is `-a` which asks for confirmation after building and showing all changes, so I know if I have commented or forgot to enable a service by mistake etc etc. pretty useful TBH `nh clean all --optimize` is another one I use regularly #nix #nixos #systemupdate #nixhelper #nh #Linux #OS image
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vivekanandanks 2 months ago
Hi All, especially Nix users, The coolest upgrade the nix ecosystem ever got for nixpkgs What a game changer approach 🔥🔥🔥 Devenv adopted it already. The project is too good to ignore 🔥❤️🔥❤️ #nix #nixos #nixpkgs #nixecosystem #nixpkgsmultiverse #multiverse #devenv #devenvsh
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Words can't describe how much this(pic attached) motivates me to do more. 🔥 This is just yet another attempt of mine to make people look at #Nix and #NixOS. The biggest problem people feel with Nix is it's knowledge gap and assumed steep learning curve. But if someone like me diving this much in 2.5 years, it's not that hard. Just some open mind and more bigger view on how to solve problems in a portable, reusable, reliable way. Let me break it down as much as possible to make things easier image
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Hi All Just gave a talk yesterday on Nix ecosystem and it's overview. Nix is hard to explain to many coz there are certain underlying things u need to understand. 1) All those underlying fundamentals first need to be understandable by the audience like reroducibility, hermeticity, sandboxing, provenance etc etc etc 2) How much 1 is important and necessary. 3) And then How nix solves that 4) The beautiful outcome which revolutionizes the tech landscape #nix #nixos 🧵
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
codeberg is showing 503 error :crying_cat_2: :ablobabducted:
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Hi All All these #GitHub, #forjego , #codeberg's view when I open a code, I want the lines which help us distinguish the different indentations easily. Any #browser #extension or something which will let me read things in such a more readable way😭? Or an extension which will let us see things with all features like in an editor without cloning #editor
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Each time I was explaining nix to someone, it felt more closer and clearer to what it is. Now I have a clear picture and people understand what #Nix is when I explain. And I won't stop at here. This beautiful technology, I'll do as many attempts as it takes to explain what it is. Now I have a very clear picture, but one single explanation won't work with everyone. 🧵 #nixos
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Hi All Today @bupd@mastodon.social showed me what #bootc is. Honestly I find it cool, even though I'm yet to find it's use case. But I wanna try running bootc from my #NixOS. So far with quick online search, I couldn't find any. Also he mentioned some problems of making nixos based bootc images if I understand it correctly. Will ponder and explore these. I'm thinking of 2 ways: 1) adding bootc image to bootloader menu 2) using nixos specialisations to create bootc or bootc like environment #containers
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Hi All Did the nix #workshop today. It was really great to be honest. Audience were engaging, made some college students and professionals try Nix for first time in their machines. One of the most impactful tools in the history of tech and I just let them try some stuffs. That thing itself a big win and what's more is that many are curious and one person started using #NixOS from my previous workshops and talks. And another one started loving and want to switch from omarchy. #nix
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Hi @Mastodon@mastodon.social @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social Just got this idea, instead of making our bio as a separate thing, why don't we direct a toot(post) as our Bio🤔. This way people can comment on someone's bio , boost them, quote, like them , share report, content warning, codeblock support etc etc and if any new feature comes to a toot, then bio will also have that feature. We can also make our profile and banner pic this way for the same tons of benefits, alt text etc etc. #mastodon #Fediverse #innovation
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Hi #Fediverse people whoever uses multiple formats like #microblogging, #photos sharing etc. Do u use separate platforms for each purpose? Like #pixelfed for photos Let's say I'm interested to post pics and also do microblogging and also would like to do some #blogging too in future. Is it okay to post all that in a single account since we all consume via hashtags etc or u suggest any other way? #mastodon #help
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