Daniel Barlow 🚴 @telent@mastodon.social

#top5distros

1. NixOS
2. Debian (used it for years before trying Nix)
3. Arch (never installed it, but their wiki helped me solve so many problems)
4. OpenWRT
5. MCC Interim, where it all began (for me)

Honorable mention also to Alpine

https://ww.telent.net/2018/9/19/re_frame_i_m_gonna_live_forever more clojure blogging, in which I attempt to explain why my re-frame ajax requests don't follow the usual pattern and challenge you to explain why they should

dumb #nix question: does anyone know if nix on macos requires xcode to have been installed or is it self-contained?

Experiments in a docker container suggest that installing Nix on top of Debian is straightforward enough that I might just punt on non-Nix installation instructions for Epsilon for now.

It does probably use about a zillion GB of extra disk, that is true. I don't think this is a decision I will avoid having to reconsider.

Perhaps I should just admit I'm old and embrace the perspective I get from having seen stuff before - https://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2018/026947.html vs https://ww.telent.net/2003/1/14/_updated_for_elisp_syntax_error_13_01_52_gmt

https://github.com/telent/epsilon/blob/master/README.md If you are using #Notmuch and #Nix, and you know how to #Clojure, and you have really good backups of your mail server and its data[*], you might like to look at the work-in-progress Epsilon, which aspires to be a mobile-friendly web interface to notmuch .

[*} I realise this may be quite a small group of people

although I do rather like the "behind the lyrics" thing, which is oddly reminiscent of watching the Chart Show (Amiga/Video Toaster FTW)

I gave in and signed up for spotify premium, mostly so I could stream to the radio in the kitchen. Android client UX is lacking, though, and frequently seems to lose sync with what the hardware (spotify connect) is playing.

Might just have to figure out how to talk to its DLNA and then go back to playing music I own

Upgrading my webmail ... from my phone

epsilon with http error checking. maybe not the prettiest but more informative when my ssh tunnel times out than sitting there silently

damnit, missed the image caption. it's a screenshot of the epsilon mua tag editor

up to my usual standards of "pretty", but can now create new tags and add them to messages in epsilon mua

#re-frame #reagent #clojurescript

Is there a mailing list or a forum or similar for re-frame? Where do its users usually hang out?

https://github.com/telent/epsilon/blob/master/src/epsilon/client.cljs#L249 really just looking for someone to tell me this is a stupid way to do it/won't work/doesn't work/is perfectly normal

#clojurescript #reagent

TFW you follow someone on mastodon and then two weeks later quite unrelatedly they turn out to be the author of a gem your colleagues are talking about (Hi @tom_dalling)

#android users - is there any android ssh client that supports port forwarding to unix sockets? @fdroidorg ? https://lwn.net/Articles/609321/
apk preferred, I guess, but a command line client would work too.