Tony Cheneau @tcheneau@linuxrocks.online

I almost missed it: NixOS 21.05 is out! Again, a lot of work seems to have been placed in this release. For more information: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-21.05 #TimeToUpdate

Sexy looking hardware (raspberry pi zero + ultrawide screen + Vortex keyboard): https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/lbu4di/my_shiny_new_lisperati1000_lisp_programming/

New blog post on how to integrate a comment system based on Mastodon in a Hugo static blog (this is mostly the "detailed" steps that I followed to add @carl 's comment system on my blog: kudos to him!): https://amnesiak.org/post/2021/01/30/hugo-blog-with-mastodon-comments-extended/

Here is the derivation to anyone interested: https://github.com/tcheneau/mynixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/zed-free
Strace, ltrace and LD_DEBUG environment variable were my friends!

So, I wanted to open a Zed encrypt (secure) archive, but Zed encrypt was not packaged in Nixpkgs (and thus available on NixOS). I could have used a virtual machine to install the provided Debian package, but it would have been over in 30 minutes. Instead, I decided to write a derivation: library path overwrite, library preload, C code for overloading syscalls and change hardcoded path, wrapper scripts: in short, it just works! It took about ~9 hours of work. Totally worth it. #shavingtheyak