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Braxton Fair
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hello world from new pds on my nix infra :)
January 23, 2026 at 2:48 AM
aight time to move to my new pds
January 23, 2026 at 2:41 AM
life is so much better with a good nixos config
January 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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Good morning.

This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
so how we feel about impermanence w nixos? getting sniped into rewriting my config into modules and considering embracing impermanence
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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sad to announce I have become the person who configures their development environment instead of developing
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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September 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
i got nixos on a server, what's the best way to run docker containers? and how can I have caddy reverse proxy those containers?

spent a lot of good time with nginx and nginx proxy manager but after getting ssl + redirects going for a couple sites with just a few lines of nix, idk if i can go back
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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im convinced the domain industry is single-handedly propped up by atproto devs at this point.
@porkbun.com would crumble without our addiction
September 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
finally deactivated my x account, no need for that shit anymore
September 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
it was so unbelievably easy getting NixOS on an OVH VPS, almost have nix everywhere 🤩
September 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Atproto is more of an everything app than x ever was
August 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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you fools!!! this wasn't a semantics post this was an imposter syndrome post!!!
maybe i should stop calling myself a programmer
August 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Me telling the PM, "You're absolutely right. It should be easy to add this to the next sprint," followed by "I am a failure. The code is cursed. The project is cursed. I am ending my employment."
August 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
uh oh getting the urge again to install nixos on everything just to get frustrated a week later and go back to arch
August 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this one hurt

I scored 13/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Email is Easy
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?
e-mail.wtf
August 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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the internet belongs to you.
August 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
getting 2 yubikeys tomorrow, just found github.com/drduh/YubiKe... as well, so excited.
GitHub - drduh/YubiKey-Guide: Community guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH - protect secrets with hardware crypto.
Community guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH - protect secrets with hardware crypto. - drduh/YubiKey-Guide
github.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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yeah well, they’re cooked. come to tangled!
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team
www.theverge.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
damn this spam is kinda crazy
August 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
feels super nice having a self-hosted forgejo instance running ci to deploy a couple of static astro websites. ~40 second build + deploy, but definitely feel like I can work that down.

... now to setup a @tangled.sh mirror? migrate?
August 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
*This* is the vibe-coding I can get behind
August 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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marx rotating in his grave like a rotisserie chicken upon the utterance of the phrase "marxist pope"
May 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM