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#ExplainVintageTechnology #music #retro Calling this "vintage" might hurt some people including myself. Sorry about that.By...

#ExplainVintageTechnology #music #retro

Calling this "vintage" might hurt some people including myself. Sorry about that.

By letting users create themes, Winamp and its community showcased the importance of cultural representation in cultural centric applications.

Their take on visuals also supports that extravagant UI does not have to imply poor usability.

(Image is the Headspace Overlay, probably from Windows Media Player, not Winamp. Thanks @tgpo for pointing that out)

I'm completely addicted to Focumon, to be honest.I mean, just look at it.

I'm completely addicted to Focumon, to be honest.

I mean, just look at it.

If you like pomodoro stuff, there's some cool projects I often use that are great and would like to share them:* Focumon: Social,...

If you like pomodoro stuff, there's some cool projects I often use that are great and would like to share them:

* Focumon: Social, community based pomodoro with gamified UX à la Pokémon. https://www.focumon.com

* Pomodoro Global: Globally synced pomodoro, featuring a simple chatroom. https://pomodorr.io/#/

* Skyrim pomodoro: A youtube video, so you can make it work offline as well. I like the vibes, the skyrim theme and ambience is pristine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7appRwdGxs

#pomodoro #adhd #routine

I'm fairly new to Mastodon and the Fediverse in general. So far, it's been a great, refreshing experience.I'd be looking for...

I'm fairly new to Mastodon and the Fediverse in general. So far, it's been a great, refreshing experience.

I'd be looking for recommendations on who to follow. Topics I'm interested in are:

* Systems programming
* OSS in general
* Nix
* Startups
* Videogame history / documentaries
* Language learning

If anyone has recommendations for any of the aforementioned topics, whether it's self-promoting or not, let me know!

#language #videogames #nix #startup #programming #opensource

The gzipped image. I plan to keep reducing its size, since some static media could be optimized and binaries are not...

The gzipped image. I plan to keep reducing its size, since some static media could be optimized and binaries are not stripped.

Static-Web-Server also supports serving brotli compressed content, which could help shrinking the image even more.

At some point in this adventure, I got the image size reduced to a fifth, just by changing two lines inside the flake.nix file. It felt...

At some point in this adventure, I got the image size reduced to a fifth, just by changing two lines inside the flake.nix file. It felt unbelievable.

#nix #docker

It's amazingly complex to get things up and running. It also happens that, while most resources provide practical examples for readers...

It's amazingly complex to get things up and running. It also happens that, while most resources provide practical examples for readers to learn from, those still end up being snippets and simpler examples covering first principles and fundamentals of Nix.

I've been thinking about releasing a small series of blog posts focused in a personal, pragmatic approach on how to get things done with Nix and flakes from my personal experience.

If anyone interested in such series, please let me know!

To achieve this, I had to walk a error prone, confusing and painfully slow progressing path, where jumping between docs, blog posts,...

To achieve this, I had to walk a error prone, confusing and painfully slow progressing path, where jumping between docs, blog posts, discourse topics and PR/Issues felt like looking for fabrics to stitch together just to get things working.

There's a lot of great Nix resources out there, but there's also a reason why devs prefer using tools like flox, devenv, devbox, etc. from straight up using the underlying technology.

Recently there's a lot of posts about writing minimal Docker images from Nix flakes, such...

Recently there's a lot of posts about writing minimal Docker images from Nix flakes, such as:

https://tmp.bearblog.dev/minimal-containers-using-nix/ (by Herman, from BearBlog)

and

https://xeiaso.net/talks/2024/nix-docker-build/ (by https://pony.social/@cadey)

These last two weeks I've been learning Nix from zero. Yesterday, I was able to finish a flake that outputs a 4.2MB (gzipped) Docker image for one of my projects, a static SPA which I bundled with Static-Web-Server.

It's awesome that we have the means to achieve this.

Trying out Mastodon 👍

Trying out Mastodon 👍