z-mitchell.bsky.social
- Software engineer building reproducible software at Flox
- 🥌 Curling enthusiast
- D&D nerd
- Former developer of femtosecond laser spectrometers
- Rust and Nix/NixOS enjoyer
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Fuck you
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FightinCowboy got me through my first Elden Ring playthrough. I love that guy!
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I think there is but it’s out of date or something like that. My memory is fuzzy. Redox has its own fork that it uses to build stuff these days.
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I stopped doing this because the job would be much easier if Redox support was upstreamed in both nixpkgs and rustc. That required juggling 3 different groups of maintainers, and all I really wanted to do was write Nix builds.
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Have I already sunk a bunch of time updating the metadata for all of my books? Yes, of course.
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I used this a bunch during my PhD. I had a handful of notes/scripts for common calculations I needed to do. It’s a nice mix between a program and a calculator.
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I keep threatening to *actually* learn something like Alloy for this. At one point I was working on a formal model of whiskey blends that included barrel provenance, mash bills (grain proportions), etc. I've never used it for anything real though.
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I did exactly this when trying to figure out error messages for the service manager built into @flox.dev
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That would explain this 😅 bsky.app/profile/z-mi...
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2/2
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This conference is also pretty close to me! I’m in Boulder so I might see if I can get the company to sponsor the ticket and lodging.
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This is how your post appears in my timeline 😂 I feel like you're staring into my soul
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Planning to take a look at this when I’m back from PTO after the new year :)
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I'm trying @flox.dev bsky.app/profile/kels...
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The bug I encountered in that video was all because I didn’t follow our own docs and left out some double quotes in my zshrc/bashrc 🤦♂️
Always happy to help if you have questions :)
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Want to hop over to Discourse and continue debugging there? No obligation, obviously, but the character limit is more convenient :) discourse.flox.dev
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Hi, I'm the Fish evangelist at Flox 😅 This doesn't look like a Fish issue specifically so much as your PATH is getting re-ordered somehow. Typically you want to put the "flox activate ... | source" line at the very end of your `config.fish`. 1/2
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I remember when Poetry and pipenv were first a thing, and if you were fluent in one but wanted to work on a project that used the other, it was a pain to go install it, learn it, etc. Flox is the general solution to this problem. n/n
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The benefit of Flox, especially in the Python world, is that you have one entry point for whatever tooling you need: "flox activate". 5/n
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Generally you would use Flox to install uv/cargo and use those to manage language dependencies. Flox handles everything else like native libraries, ensuring everyone gets the same tools, etc. 4/n
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uv/cargo provide project management e.g. "cargo run" and "uv run", but Flox doesn't do that for you automatically (though you can add shell aliases to an environment if you want). 3/n
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Flox can also install and manage Python dependencies directly, but our Catalog doesn't cover less well-known packages. You may want to stick with uv/poetry/etc for that depending on your needs. 2/n