My NixOS/Nix Journey
Posted on Apr 15 2025

I operate computers and I enjoy it. However, I operate a lot of computers, both as an occupation and in my personal life. As I operate computers, I’m often thinking about ways to improve the process of how I operate computers. This fundamental drive in me often pushes me to learn new things, experiment or find different approaches to common problems. I always try to think that perhaps what I have now is a local maximum worth pushing past, especially since, if I play my cards right, I can always revert back to whatever setup I had previously - computers are neat that way.

Learn Flakes the Fun Way
Posted on Jul 8 2024

This post is a Flake-based rewrite of Learn Nix the Fun Way on fzakaria.com. I really enjoyed the content of the post and wanted to write it as a Nix user who is just using and prefers Flakes. It does add a few extra steps and complexity, but I think it’s still valuable and perhaps reveals a bit more about Nix and why it’s pretty fantastic. I also include a few neat things that are more Flake-specific at the end.

But yes, it’s basically plagiarism.

iex and dbg/1 without pry prompts
Posted on Jun 22 2023

I love iex -S mix ... but I usually don’t like when dbg asks me to pry. Just show me my data! Well, today I learned about iex --no-pry:

Teaching TypeScript to Help You with Events (Generically)
Posted on Jan 18 2022

I wanted my custom event system to have all the nice typed goodness and it took me a lot of brain-twisting and a couple of meetings to finally rubber duck it out. Now, I will share my hard-won knowledge with you!

Elm: Forms, Fields, and Abstractions
Posted on Mar 20 2019

If you’re using Elm, you’re probably dealing with forms and fields. You’re also probably wanting to do functional programming “right” and compose smaller functions together. Hopefully this helps!