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Today, I upgraded my NixOS system to the latest version, v25.05. It went smoothly. I just want to report my experience here. In-Place Upgrades: NixOS vs Other Distributions I have been using GNU/Linux for well over two decades now. And I have never u...
Boring work is often the most effective work. It is the kind of work that might lead us to understand patterns and solve problems that we did not even know we had. Tolerance to boredom and tedium is a superpower, especially for programmers. Once we b...
I have mentioned a few times in my posts that Haskell is my go-to language. This is true even for small applications which go beyond a simple shell script. Hacking Haskell with Nix is an easy and fun way to quickly prototype. I want to share two tric...
This post explores how to hack an mdBook project with scripts. A few days back, I wrote a blog post about static site generators, in particular how I decided to migrate my blog from Zola to Hugo. One of my points was to be able to hack my own content...
Let's cross-post this blog post to Dev.to using its API. Getting Started We will use the Dev.to API (Version 1) to create a new article on Dev.to. The API requires an API key to authenticate the user. You can get the API key from the Dev.to settings ...
This is a second take for my previous blog post Abusing Haskell: Executable Blog Posts. This time, I am going to improve the solution with a Lua filter for pandoc. Background One week ago, I published a blog post, Abusing Haskell: Executable Blog Pos...
