It has been awhile since I have written a tutorial. I have spent 2-3 hours
working on this post, but I think I need to spend another 2-3 hours before I
publish it.
I expect to be able to write these posts faster as I practice.
I would like to create a few resources that I can reuse in each article for
things like:
- "Let's Learn Nix" reproducibility: Where I list all of the tutorials'
dependencies: nix version, <nixpkgs> version, OS type and version, etc.
- Haskell type signature convention for Nix
- Ad hoc vs. declarative configuration for Nix
- Troubleshooting Nix: <nixpkgs> search, nix repl, searching the Nix codebase
- caffeine.md: an explanation of my theory that caffeine antagonizes
mindfulness.
- nix-and-hugo.md: a short tutorial explaining how I use Nix, the package
manager and Hugo, the static site generator, to host my blog.
- self-hosting.md: explain how I installed NixOS on my used Acer laptop.
Started working on my debut blog post about giving up my cell phone during
march.
I'd like to publish this post by the end of the month, once I conclude the
experiment. At that time, I'd like to change the voice of some the content to be
past test. For now, I'm dumping ideas here while they're fresh in my mind. I
will refine and prune the final post later.
Instead of creating my own static website generator, I'm trying Hugo. Huge is a
newer alternative to Jekyll. So far, I like what I see.
- Ignoring /blog/public since this is where `huge -D` generates the static
assets.
- Using a TailwindCSS theme.
- Creating a dumby post about Emacs to test deployments.
- Deleting all Common Lisp and Nix code that powered my previous, half-baked
blog.
