Programming

TL;DR htmx can be quite useful, especially for python devs with not enough time to learn javascript frameworks but who needs an alternative to tools like streamlit. The “hypermedia systems” book quite a good read, I recommend reading it. My code discussed in this blog post very closely resembles the code in the “hypermedia systems” book, but is built up progressively, to make it easier to follow along the book when stepping through the chapters. I only cover parts I found essential though. But maybe my template is helpful to follow if you want to add components important to you. ...

This is for you if … You have some spare time and want to dive into nix and or try another way to configure your machine environment. And let me tell you, nix is a great way of remedying the problem of never having had all software admin problems at the same time! Jokes aside, there actually is a decent way of managing your home setup, i.e. aliases and command line tools using home-manager. ...

In a previous post I shared how I set up the nix home-manager on linux. Now I had the problem that I wanted to make the rust-analyzer work properly in VSCode. Yes, for some reason, just adding the packages to home.nix packages like { lib, pkgs, ... }: { ... nix = { package = pkgs.nix; settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ]; }; home = { packages = with pkgs; [ cargo rustc rustfmt ]; }; } as one may think reading the NixOS rust wiki page does not actually work. I mean, not that they have a home-manager flakes example, but that was my best guess based on what I’ve read there. So using this guess, you can successfully run home-manager switch ... and develop rust code, but then VSCode’s rust extension with rust-analyzer gives you a lovely ...