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Norfairon Garnix Is Joining Shopify

Garnix has as good as no vendor lock-in (awesome!) and NixCI (https://nix-ci.com) is almost a drop-in replacement so at least migrating is super easy.

Norfairon Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

Congrats to the team!

To all Garnix users: NixCI is very similar so I'd like to welcome you to try it out.

Demo: https://nix-ci.com/demo

Comparison: https://nix-ci.com/comparison/garnix

Norfairon Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down

Yes definitely. Get in touch so we can make it happen. I need an example use-case to get it working.

Norfairon Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down

Congrats to the team!

To all Garnix users: NixCI is very similar so I'd like to welcome you to try it out.

Demo: https://nix-ci.com/demo

Comparison: https://nix-ci.com/comparison/garnix

Norfairon Why I love NixOS

This is exactly why I made https://nix-ci.com/ And it supports Forgejo, GitHub, and GitLab.

Norfairon The purpose of continuous integration is to fail

Author here: NixCI (https://nix-ci.com) is not open-source. https://github.com/srid/nixci has been replaced by om ci: https://omnix.page/om/ci.html

Norfairon The purpose of continuous integration is to fail

Then the test is still flaky. If there's a bug you want the test to consistently fail, not just sometimes.

Norfairon The purpose of continuous integration is to fail

Hey, author here: I completely agree, that's why I also haven't used those strange colours for https://nix-ci.com. I just thought they would make for a cool visual representation of the point of the blog post.

Norfairon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://nix-ci.com

What if CI didn't have to involve any configuration, could run in 30sec instead of 30min, and would be reproducible locally?

Norfairon Using Radicle CI

nix-ci.com is built with this as one of the two central features. The other is that it figures out what to do by itself; you don't have to write any YAML.

Norfairon I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again

https://nix-ci.com does this by construction.

Norfairon Frustration Tolerance: An Essential for Surviving Large Orgs

Having an organisation of highly-frustration-tollerant people is a great way of getting an organisation where nothing ever gets fixed.

Norfairon Guide to Haskell strings

Finally someone who (correctly) argues that there aren't too many String types.

Norfairon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)

Location: Zürich Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Haskell, Nix Résumé/CV: https://cs-syd.eu/cv Email: https://cs-syd.eu/contact

Norfairon Libxo: Easy way to generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML

In Haskell we use autodocodec for this.

Norfairon Ask HN: Do you send emails to yourself?

No. I use intray.eu for this.

Norfairon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

I write https://cs-syd.eu They're: - Technical introductions to interediate/advanced topics (usually in Haskell) - Self-management/productivity tricks - Quote posts I have uploaded about two hundred posts over 6 years and still upload every two weeks consistently.

Norfairon My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file

This seems like a great place to plug smos: smos.cs-syd.eu

It's like emacs' org mode but without the emacs.

Norfairon Find stuff in org-mode anywhere (2017)

Smos had built-in querying^^

https://smos.cs-syd.eu

Norfairon Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

You may want to try out smos. It's org mode but without the emacs around it: smos.cs-syd.eu

Norfairon Ask HN: What tools do you use for note-taking, progress tracking and TODO lists?

And if you don't like emacs, there's https://smos.cs-syd.eu which is a separate editor for GTD

Norfairon Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”

Nope, this was a factual account of my experience

Norfairon Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”

Yes, in fact I used to do that when I worked at Google and people would call security on me. The same thing happened at Facebook

Norfairon How to compare two functions for equivalence, as in (λx.2*x) == (λx.x+x)?

Depending on the language, this is undecidable. See the function equality post on cs-syd.eu

Norfairon Bassel Khartabil: Missing Syrian-Palestinian 'executed'

That's a weird place to put quotation marks.

Norfairon Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next

How about sorting by deadline for submissions?

Norfairon Ask HN: Would you like to be interviewed about your life as a coder?

Yeah cool, contact cs-syd.eu/contact

Norfairon I'm not a Woman in Tech

'If something you say doesn't offend or piss someone off, you just haven't ran into the right person yet'

Can I quote you on that?