Full Time Nix | home-manager with Austin Horstman (khaneliman)

Pre-roll transcript:

Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. My name is Dawn. My job (self-appointed) is to empower the Nix user. If you're listening on the website, consider listening on a podcast app—they offer fancy features. To new listeners I would recommend starting with a recent episode ...which this might be. I hope you’ll find this episode informative and entertaining.

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Chapters (generated)

00:00 Introduction
02:18 Journey into Software Development
05:01 Exploring Open Source and Nix
06:59 Personal Use of Nix and Home Lab Projects
09:30 Transitioning to NixOS for Home Lab
12:05 Contributions to Nixpkgs
14:15 NixVim and Plugin Management
16:46 Yazi Plugin Set and Customization
28:24 Exploring Yazi Plugins and UI Enhancements
32:31 Diving into home-manager and Nix Configuration
34:18 Understanding home-manager's Role in User Configuration
38:06 The Evolution of home-manager and Community Contributions
41:10 Streamlining CI Processes with BuildBot
58:27 Caching Solutions and CI Infrastructure
59:46 home-manager Activation Gotchas
01:03:01 Contributions and Open Source Involvement
01:10:36 Future Plans

https://github.com/khaneliman
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/commits?author=khaneliman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)
https://angularjs.org/
https://react.dev/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerShell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjaro
https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/btrfs-assistant-1-0-is-nearly-here/18418
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EndeavourOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unraid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmox_Virtual_Environment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESXi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNAS

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBS_Studio
https://fulltimenix.com/people/randy-eckenrode
https://neovim.io/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua
https://nvchad.com/
https://www.lunarvim.org/
https://www.lazyvim.org/
https://github.com/doom-neovim/doom-nvim
https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs

https://matrix.to/#/%23community:nixos.org
https://discord.gg/7fmU7hutVb

https://nix-community.github.io/nixvim/
https://github.com/MattSturgeon
https://fulltimenix.com/people/gaetan-lepage
https://github.com/mrcjkb
https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/lz.n
https://github.com/mrcjkb/rustaceanvim
https://github.com/MrcJkb/haskell-tools.nvim
https://github.com/mason-org/mason.nvim
https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim
https://lazy.folke.io/
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/configuring-npm/package-lock-json
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/appendix/glossary.html#lock-file

https://github.com/Gerg-L
https://github.com/NotAShelf
https://github.com/NotAShelf/nvf

https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
https://www.raycast.com/
https://github.com/anyrun-org/anyrun
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Shell
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/tree/e8c19a3cec2814c754f031ab3ae7316b64da085b/modules/programs
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/tree/e8c19a3cec2814c754f031ab3ae7316b64da085b/modules/services

https://www.dropbox.com/
https://github.com/kubernetes/git-sync
https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock
https://github.com/mortie/swaylock-effects
https://brew.sh/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd
https://github.com/nix-community/nh
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/e8c19a3cec2814c754f031ab3ae7316b64da085b/modules/lib/maintainers.nix
https://www.buildbot.net/
https://github.com/zowoq
https://www.buildbot.net/
https://github.com/nix-community/buildbot-nix/
https://hedgedoc.org/

https://docs.github.com/en/actions
https://github.com/NixOS/ofborg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64

https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/4976
https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin
https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor
https://git.sr.ht/~khumba/nvd

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/home-manager-news-bot-now-on-bluesky-mastodon/66393?u=mightyiam

https://github.com/rycee
https://www.cachix.org/
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github

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Post-roll transcript:

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Creators and Guests

Host

Shahar "Dawn" Or

Author of the Full Time Nix podcast and open source contributor

Guest

Austin Horstman

Senior Software Engineer

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