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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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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🚀

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

Great post from @fnichol.com!!

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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.