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programming

Declarative vs Procedural Programming

Understanding the fundamental difference between describing what you want versus how to get it

2024-12-18

nixos

The History of NixOS

From PhD thesis to production-ready OS: the evolution of purely functional system configuration

2024-12-18

nix

Adopting Nix Shells Before NixOS

A practical guide to incremental Nix adoption with direnv, dotenv, and process management

2024-12-23

Nix Dev Shell Concepts

Project-specific development environments that just work

2024-12-18

How Home Manager Replaces Homebrew and Dotfiles

Moving from Homebrew plus dotfiles to declarative user environment management on macOS

2024-12-18

storage

COW Block Storage and Why Keystone Prefers ZFS

Understanding copy-on-write filesystems and their role in reliable infrastructure

2024-12-18