I am a New England-based dad and technology, photography and sports enthusiast. Rooting for Ohio State, the Bengals, Celtics, McLaren F1 and, of course, my kids' sports teams. Sideline photographer. Tinkering with programming and Linux administration.
Trying to learn #fsharp so be prepared for many beginner type posts!
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin, in "The Descent of Man", 1871
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Don't forget to occasionally take secure #backups of your passwords and other stored secrets. I've downloaded my #Vaultwarden vault to an encrypted json file that I can hopefully use to bootstrap a new account in case something happens to my main one.
Any tips or suggestions as to how others securely back theirs up?
@Edent the trap some people fall into with NixOS is that they think configuration.nix is a static configuration with a format that could be easily managed with a GUI; however, that file is just a single module in a full programming language, and in that fact lies a lot of the power that Nix and NixOS can offer. It's not just a fancy rc.conf.
But, and this is what I did, you can treat it as such when you start out, and then move your way up over time.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116267438444033652
This has been my experience as well. It took me at least 2 or 3 attempts (some of which were in a virtual machine) before I started settling in on a configuration. Also, there is NO need to rush into using flakes. You can get a long way before you have to start going down that path.
"Much like reading code is an acquired skill, so too is learning to read documentation." My take on trying to navigate the #fsharp documentation.
https://blog.samirparikh.com/2026/03/learning-to-read-fsharp-documentation.html
Reason #257 why I will never buy an HP printer
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/hp_deliberately_adds_15_minutes/
Ready to flush my bracket down the 🚽
I learn about the existence of so many colleges and universities I had never heard of this time of year.
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