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Software Engineer. Building @systeminit.com. Previously at SUSE, Rancher Labs, and NetApp. nickgerace.dev | github.com/nickgerace
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We've started doing training sessions for System Initiative. From a standing start to a full application running on AWS, with ECS, best practice networking, load balancing, manual failover to an EC2 instance, and a tutorial on how to build your own custom templates from scratch: less than 4 hours.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Want to know why System Initiative is going to change your life if you're an infrastructure engineer? We've added full coverage for every AWS service, through using the Cloud Control API and CloudFormation for unsupported resources. It's been weeks, not months, from a standing start.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

#rustlang 2024 is here! blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/20/R...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Switched back to headless Arch Linux after a great ~8 month experience with headless NixOS for the dev server. My takeaway from this: immutable distros (maybe NixOS) are the future, but there’s some work to do in both speed and dev usability. NixOS is overall excellent though.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Been keeping an eye on CachyOS over the past year or so and it’s looking better and better. I’d be interested in running it headless at some point. Might be the most promising developer-oriented distro right now. wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basi...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Always great to hear what @jonhoo.eu is up to 🤘 youtube.com/watch?v=zw88...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

TIL using a match guard with duplicate enum variants is possible. This is cursed. play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone have a working code-lldb or lldb-dap working in NixOS?

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Rust friends that use debuggers! What’s your go-to setup?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Feels like most DIY PC cases should become flatpack shippable. Environmental win, economic win, easier to resell, etc.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

It was another amazing #CfgMgmtCamp 🧇🍻! It was great to seeing you all and having those great conversations leaving me with new ideas. Cheers @krisbuytaert.bsky.social and Tosh for organising and until next time 👋. Also excited to see next cool features @adamhjk.me and his team @systeminit.com ship🚀

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve seen the potential before I even joined SI, but seeing the flop on this most recent turn of the crank… I think we’ve finally done it. I’m biased but I wouldn’t use anything else at this point.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Are you coming to @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social ? I am. My talk Monday afternoon is going to be the deepest, most technical talk I’ve given in years. Come learn a new theory of automation with me. It’ll be dope, I promise. Then on Wednesday, come to our workshop and learn System Initiative!

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

I’m realizing I want a distro that gives me the OS-level and repository-level confidence of NixOS with the environmental-level confidence of Arch Linux.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Free startup idea folks. We love buck2 and it’s great to work with. Giving that power to everyone from a bespoke design would be incredible.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I need a guide on how to use this site for someone who prefers a mix of algorithmic and chronological/following posts 😅

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If you index all your work by PR and run CI by PR, then why not squash all of your commits? Yes, you can review commit-by-commit, but that’s opt-in (with GitHub at least). However, the behavioral change to the codebase will be atomically tied to the single PR.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Really excited to sit down and check this out. 575 W TDP handled by a 2 slot cooler… damn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p0M...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

My talk, "Skyrim Saved My Codebase And Can Save Yours Too" has been published! ⚔️ Huge thank you to the organizers and video editors of DevIgnition 2024! youtube.com/watch?v=lt0O...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Great post from @fnichol.com!!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw a zoom meeting called “let’s build a filesystem” pass by in the engineering Slack channel. I’m gonna pretend like I didn’t see anything

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

This is probably my favorite announcement from Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote. Mac Mini sized machine with a small Blackwell GPU, 128 GB unified memory and a Grace architecture Arm CPU 🤯 www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Happy new year to you all! We are starting the year building on the features we released in December! We are working on "Visual Templates" - a way to create templates from a diagram! Come read about it in the blog post www.systeminit.com/blog/opportu...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Experimenting with Bevy and I’m super impressed thus far. Still wrapping my head around Bevy ECS, but it ironically reminds me of old SI designs.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Who here has bought Berkeley Mono? Would you recommend it?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Starting to think more projects should be using CalVer than SemVer. If the semantic and human element part isn’t valuable or worth it, it feels like CalVer is an underrated default for non-libraries.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment