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dankobgd··on Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck
Then human resource woman should be the only programmer
dankobgd··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
Americans only care about stealing oil and gas
dankobgd··on A Deep Dive into OpenAPI
So ai blog is now a "deep dive"
dankobgd··on How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
on github this was my config: https://github.com/dankobg/nixos-conf. I had that in home.nix. They both couldn't be listed in that apps array at same time, gearlever specifed and smile commented works and vice versa. But doing nix shell -p with both worked together. I didn't have patience to check what was the problem since maybe it's some of the other apps as well.
dankobgd··on How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
I forgot exactly what it said in error msg, but it was some conflict with like Meson build file apparently already existed or something
dankobgd··on How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
I gave it a go twice and i just couldn't stick to using it. So many annoying little problems in general that i gave up. I configured system in the end but it was still annoying. I even had conflicts with some pkgs like Smile emoji picker and Gearlever, ok you can say: why do you need that? but lets say i do. And i got a conflict and couldn't install them together. I thought the whole point of nix is to have independent pkgs but i get in practice a conflict which now i have to figure out how to solve and there is no info online. There are many bugs and bad abstractions. I can use nix for local dev (devshells) though.

With Ansible i get repeatable setup of my whole system. I can setup and install every program, configure it (dotfiles), setup services automatically and users and i have vault to easily encrypt secrets end embed them or template things out which is much nicer than using nix. I run a playbook and set everything up in 15 mins and the most "annoying" thing i have to do is basically log into few websites that i use daily.

dankobgd··on Postgres IDE in VS Code
Tried it, queries work but i can't even show the columns and other meta data. it says no connnection even though i have a connection to do queries.
dankobgd··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
I guess good that i never used it and it was the first thing to disable from policies.json
dankobgd··on Zod 4
i would use it if there was just 1 normal zod lib not like how it is now: zod and zod mini and who knows what. I rather use arktype or valibot if i am in browser only.
dankobgd··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
I installed logseq but i guess i am either too stupid to learn it or just lazy because there are so many things
dankobgd··on Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative
recaptcha is useless, only annoys actual users. I lost 15 minutes last week on miui site with their trash recaptcha. The point is to steal more data from you
dankobgd··on How I set up new MacBooks
Just use Ansible, it's the best for installing and configuring things
dankobgd··on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation
some trash that stupid people do
dankobgd··on Firebase Studio
Stopped reading after ai
dankobgd··on The "S" in MCP Stands for Security
if anyone cared about security, they wouldn't be pushing ai slop
dankobgd··on Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
no it doesn't
dankobgd··on Claude can now search the web
wow so cool and usefull, said nobody ever
dankobgd··on Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
he smart
dankobgd··on Goravel: A Go framework inspired by Laravel
looks horrible
dankobgd··on A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
There are many of these tools but i don't like to think of these things like dotfiles. What is a dotfile? A `.something` file in my home dir? is /etc/environment a dotfile? No, but i wan't to manage it still. What about Librewolf policies.json in /usr/lib64/librewolf/policies or similar. It's not a dotfile either. For some tools, i need some other tools to exist already in path. What about zsh where i want to sync 3 git repos for syntax highlighting and other scripts? Also what about secrets, maybe i want some encrypted stuff so i need a solution for that also.

Ansible is the best for these things, no symlinks needed, just configure what you want to exist and where and you can template configs or copy them or use some modules like `git_config` to then generate that ini file etc. Ansible vault also handles encryption easily so i can manage ssh keys, passwords...

dankobgd··on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
too long even this site cannot "watch" it
dankobgd··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
ai is boooring, they should fix the core features before they add useless ai
dankobgd··on Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years
Yeah you are right :) i mean i could use buf build but i think the problem is just more general.
dankobgd··on Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years
Since i started using nix devShells this is kind of useless. What if i have 1 tool that isn't go tool so what do i do with it? so i have that one "exception" and here we go again...
dankobgd··on Tailwind CSS v4.0
It's a horrible way to do what css can do but in a dumber way with added tooling. It is used by people that don't know css and this is where the problems start
dankobgd··on Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth
took them 16 years to fix night light bug in the driver but yeah robots are the future
dankobgd··on Orbit by Mozilla
Stopped reading after "AI you can trust"
dankobgd··on Don't Fuck with Scroll
because this is web and nothing makes sense.
dankobgd··on Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine
Why not make future pages better instead of old existing pages better? Why not improve the browsers or web assembly or dom or anything that hasn't changed in 20 years?
dankobgd··on I Like Makefiles
nobody likes makefile
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