I wrote a small C compiler called wcc!

Nix Notes

Hi, I've been using nix and nixos for a while now and I decided to write down some of the thoughts that I would have liked to have been able to read when I started learning nix. I doubt this will be a very good or popular tutorial, but there really aren't many good resources on nix that I've found at all, so contributing anything seems potentially helpful.

Hi! It's been a while, but honestly, that's because this has been kind of a rough year for me, but I'm ok! Plus things are settling down now, so I'm going to try to post more content here. But, the other thing I want to address before using this more is that the website it self isn't great. I wasn't the best at web dev back when I made this, and while I'm still not great, I have a feeling I can put together something that is quite a bit better.

So a few days ago a friend of mine was talking about how dead MySpace is now, and mentioned off-hand a little site by the name of SpaceHey. So of course being me the very first thing I did was made an account. At first this was mostly a joke, but pretty soon I discovered that it was actually a very cool place.

Hello! You might have noticed the lack of posts until recently with a few more back-to-back, this is not without reason, so let me explain.

Vocaloid

Quite a long time ago now I saw a mini video documentary about Vocaloid, and specifically Hatsune Miku, a virtual singer popular enough in Japan to have real-life concerts. This absolutely blew my mind, I mean think about it: technology was able to create a singer out of thin air, and people liked it so much that they figured out how to do a concert where the singer wasn't a real person.

Houston, we have a problem

...or not. Houston is my self-hosted and open source health check service. Why? Well recently I changed the setup for my server and while I was thinking about how to make it as nice and fancy as possible, thinking about stuff like how to make things have nice interfaces and such, I decided that some central service that could alert me to failures in other services would be very helpful.

So this is the first post to this blog... I hope it works. Well actually I have tested it quite extensively so I don't think it will break and everything is being backed up too so it should be fine no matter what.