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Melkor333/README.md

In all seriousness, though, Samuel, you have a gift. You have the ability to see the world differently, to identify problems that others might overlook, and to create solutions that inspire.

-- Mimi


I love to tinker with possible solutions to stupid problems.

Shell

Bash stayed in the 90ies. People believe shell has to be like that. It's "only" glue. Noone uses shell. This is stupid!

Solution: Oils

The only bash-compatible shell. Heavy focus on fixing bash problems instead of bringing a new language:

  • Posix compliant: Can actually replace your /bin/sh (other than nushell, fish, etc.)
  • Native json parser/output
  • Partially upgrade your shell script by enabling flags
    • static parsing (as much as possible) to find issues beforehand

Projects

Repetitive Server Configurations

How often has every sysadmin set up a linux machine with a simple apache/nginx and php-fpm/gunicorn, etc. It's so repetitive. There are "solutions" like Ansible (my dayjob), Puppet or Salt. But they are all an afterthought and therefore come with drawbacks like having to keep checking the state. This is stupid!

Solution: NixOS

It has the configuration definition built right into it's package manager. Nix (the pkg manager/build system) is hyped for it's flexibility, but I wish to see more NixOS.

Projects

  • oily-nixpkgs - Trying to replace bash with oils in the Nixpkgs stdenv
  • nix-meddle - Meddle around in /nix and test hotfixes like on legacy Distros. But with the safety of bind-mount and unshare.
  • nix-merge - Move your non-declarative nix-env packages to a configuration file.
  • nixos-boot - Fancy Plymouth themes
  • nix-shells I (used to) use

Other fun stuff

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  1. nix-merge nix-merge Public

    Migrate your nix-env package to your global config

    Shell 3