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πŸ“πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ πŸ‘‰ McLaren F1 πŸ€“ NixOS πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Helix Editor github.com/leonlonsdale leonlonsdale.dev Bsky member #435,345 Don’t contact me trying to sell to me.

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... cli tools checking which shell is enabled.

Regardless, I think I've come a long way in a week, and its a marathon, not a sprint. More learning to come! One thing I've found is the Nix community is awesome and willing to help, thanks!

08.02.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
GitHub - leonlonsdale/dots-nixos: NixOS dotfiles NixOS dotfiles. Contribute to leonlonsdale/dots-nixos development by creating an account on GitHub.

... I have the nix skills to transfer them over. Specifically where some of my modules will check the status of another before implementing a setting, otherwise falling back to a default - if interested: github.com/leonlonsdale... - an example being terminals checking if I've enabled a font, or ...

08.02.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you. I actually now have it working, both with flake.nixosModules and flake.modules.

I will pause it here while I do further reading - there are some implementations in my current configuration that I'd like to mirror in a move to this pattern. As of yet I'm not sure ...

08.02.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Modules. In that approach I’ve left hardware-configuration in etc/nixos to keep it out of my repo which is in ~/nixconfig.

I’m playing with nix-files at the moment

08.02.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why thank you! I guess the biggest obstacle, as both a Linux and nix noob, is taking that default configuration.nix and hardware-configuration.nix and turning it into modules with flake-parts. I think,l my current config (which is working) is pretty close to the approach but only using regular nix…

08.02.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Are you aware of any more beginner friendly examples or guides going from fresh install to dendritic?

07.02.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@mightyiam.bsky.social I’m a recent convert. I left windows behind for NixOS a little over a week ago. Very interested in your dendritic pattern. Alas, all examples I can find are so abstracted they’re beyond my nix comprehension. I already implement flake-parts in my. Current configuration…

07.02.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I use NixOS btw

06.02.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why? When I was teaching myself, the discords were packed and active. Now though, I see new learners join and ask questions only to receive no response. Feeling supported is a great motivator to keep going!

21.01.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am interested in creating a Discord server for people teaching themselves to code to pop in and ask for support from experienced devs. Of course, the experienced devs would actually have be in there first. Would any on here be willing to chill and answer questions when you have spare time?

21.01.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@typecraft.dev lots of new features in neovim and breaking changes to plugins since your setup series. Is 2026 the year for a fresh setup tutorial?

05.01.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, not quite what I was looking for. More the ability to stick a config file in say ~/.config/biome to set default preferred settings.

28.12.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@biomejs.dev does Biome support a global configuration that it will look for if there’s no local project config, like Ruff does in Python? It would be cool to not have to create the same config for every project.

27.12.2025 22:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Your invite to Warpβ€”the agentic development platform Warp is an AI agent platform that lets you run multiple agents in parallel to complete any development task.

Giving @warp.dev another whirl. This has improved drastically since I last tried it. Looks as though it may have persistent session management like tmux/zellij, but I need to look into that a bit more. Give it a try (yes it's a referral - access directly if you prefer): app.warp.dev/referral/R93...

13.08.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any that you would add @axlefublr.bsky.social ?

08.07.2025 12:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I now live in the terminal.

Helix. Yazi. Lazygit. Atac. Eza. Fd. Fish. Gping. Jq. Ktop. Btop. Ctop. Lazydocker. Lazysql. Starship. Tldr. Tmux. Zoxide. Dive. Bat.

Ghostty btw.

Which tools do you use? Interested to see what else is out there!

07.07.2025 20:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@wagslane.bsky.social I’m seeing BST examples implemented using a single class and also using 2 classes (node and tree). Are there any reasons why you might choose one approach over the other?

06.03.2025 07:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I've been quiet but still coding. I've been focusing my attention on working through the Boot.dev curriculum by @wagslane.bsky.social. Recently finished building the static site generator project - what a brain melter that was! It's done, and I ranked up to Archsage.

13.02.2025 20:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

33/100 #100DaysofCode with #Python

πŸ‘‰ Built an automatic emailer whenever the ISS is overhead using smtplib, datetime, and requests packages.

34/100

πŸ‘‰ Updated the trivia game from day 17 to retrieve questions from an API, and added a UI with tkinter.

25.01.2025 19:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Could be a base JS framework install before you’ve even got started πŸ˜…

25.01.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

32/100

πŸ‘‰ Created auto birthday emailer using datetime, smtplib, dotenv, and pandas

#python #dev #learner #noob

23.01.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

28/100 #100DaysofCode

πŸ‘‰ Created a pomodoro timer using tkinter

29/100

πŸ‘‰ Created a password manager wit tkinter

30/100

πŸ‘‰ Learned error handling and updated password manager with error handling

31/100

πŸ‘‰ Created a flashcard tool using tkinter and pandas

23.01.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

27/100 #100DaysofCode

πŸ‘‰ Tkinter tinkering
πŸ‘‰ Labels, Entry, Buttons, Checkboxes, Window
πŸ‘‰ Mini-project: Miles to KM converter

#python #dev #noob

17.01.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

25/100 #100DaysofCode

πŸ‘‰ Pandas DataFrames
πŸ‘‰ Pandas Series
πŸ‘‰ Pandas and CSV Files

26/100

πŸ‘‰ List comprehension
πŸ‘‰ Dictionary comprehension
πŸ‘‰ Comprehensions with Pandas DataFrames

#Python #Dev #Junior #noob

16.01.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

24/100 #100DaysofCode with Python:

πŸ‘‰ Learned to open, read, and write with "with..as.." and open()
πŸ‘‰ Rabbit holed away from the course and learned os.path and pathlib Path()
πŸ‘‰ Built a basic mail merger
πŸ‘‰ Updated snake game to persist high scores

#Python #Dev #JuniorDev #availtohire πŸ™

14.01.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

23/100 or #100DaysofCode:

πŸ‘‰ Completed a "Turtle Crossing" game (basically frogger).

#BootDev

πŸ‘‰ Made a start on the Static Site Generator project.

#Python #Dev #GameDev #Backend

13.01.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

22/100 #100DaysofCode

πŸ‘‰ Built Pong, played Pong, lost Pong.
πŸ‘‰ used the built-in turtle graphics lib to build it.

12.01.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

21/100 #DaysofCode

πŸ‘‰ Completed the Snake Game πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

#BootDev

πŸ‘‰ Finally got around to finishing off the Functional Programming course. This one blew my my mind. Got it all done but the first thing I am going to do is... do it again.

11.01.2025 22:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

18/100 #100DaysofCode

πŸ‘‰ More OOP Practice
πŸ‘‰ Creating 'spot art' with the turtle package.

19/100

πŸ‘‰ More playing with the Turtle package
πŸ‘‰ Created a Turtle Race game

20/100

πŸ‘‰ Even more Turtle package tinkering
πŸ‘‰ Started on a snake game. Classic

10.01.2025 18:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Developers, what is your advice to new devs looking to enter the industry in 2025? Where would you start? How would you plan your roadmap?

07.01.2025 22:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0