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writing nix micro blog
<date>201020-1926</date>
<p>%title Amazed at the NixOS Community
:writing:nix:micro:blog:
%date 2020-10-20 19:26</p>
<p>Even by FOSS zealot standards, I run an esoteric combination of hardware and software. My interests go beyond just "getting things done"; I have a strange fascination with tools themselves. I specifically choose tools I can customize to fit my hand like glove, and the FOSS world has plenty of choices for those so inclined.
This obsession with obscurity means I end up playing with software that looks like an ASCII video game, but is actually a <a href="orca">music tracker</a>, emulates <a href="vcv-rack">modular synthesizers</a> or is a <a href="domain specific language">DSL</a> in an already <a href="haskell">esoteric programming language</a> for <a href="tidalcycles">livecoding</a>
Even when it comes to hardware, I use a <a href="fx tec pro 1">phone</a> you probably haven't heard of (it has a physical keyboard! in 2020!), and my <a href="pebble time round">smartwatch</a> is literally no longer available for purchase, that I revived through a battery transplant.</p>
<p>And yet, the NixOS community has packages for all of these. There's a derivation of the Pebble SDK, TidalCycles and VCV-Rack. It's <em>awesome</em>. Even though they don't natively package all the vim plugins I'm using, I've gotten the hang of updating nixpkgs to include these plugins, and I've even made a couple PRs so they are available to the wider community! I didn't think the intersection between FOSS zealots who use NixOS, like livecoding or are die-hard Pebble fans would be greater than 1, but here I am😊</p>
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