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The Nihilist's Guide to Cross-Compiling Dioxus for Windows
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2025 Wrapped & 2026 Wishlist
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The Tradeoff Trap
notashelf.dev·40w
I am Not Convinced by Vibe Coding
notashelf.dev·41w·Hacker News
The Federation Fallacy
notashelf.dev·46w
On Mutation Testing
notashelf.dev·49w·Hacker News
The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything
notashelf.dev·54w·Lobsters, Hacker News, r/programming
Considerations
notashelf.dev·58w
NixOS Testing Framework I: On VM Tests
notashelf.dev·58w
My New Tech Stack
notashelf.dev·58w
What is nixConfig, Should You Trust It?
notashelf.dev·59w
Building Deterministic Typst Packages with Nix
notashelf.dev·61w
On Editors and Things
notashelf.dev·62w
NixOS Security I: Systemd
notashelf.dev·63w
Signing Git commits with SSH keys
notashelf.dev·64w
Nix Remote Builders
notashelf.dev·65w
Full Disk Encryption and Impermanence on NixOS
notashelf.dev·65w
When, Why and How to Extend Nixpkgs' Standard Library
notashelf.dev·67w
Lazy Evaluation in Nix: Where Your Conditionals Go to Die
notashelf.dev·67w
Stop Scraping my Git Forge!
notashelf.dev·71w

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