colin arnott

oops, well this took to long; but nothing has really changed with the website in the last few years, and currently the only posts are triggered by technical changes. maybe we can change that. # flake.nix { description = "personal website"; inputs = { blueprint.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; blueprint.url = "github:numtide/blueprint"; nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable"; }; outputs = inputs: inputs.blueprint {inherit inputs;}; } now, blueprint, being an opinionated framework, insisted that all these files be pure, and specify all their inputs. [Read More]

I first looked at nix back in 2016 when snap forced me to use a macbook. At the time, I was just looking for a package manager, and it was a hard sell, much harder than the linux laptop that followed a few months later. As such, it was five years before I picked it back up, and I regret not giving it the time back then. I guess this is also a goodbye letter to archlinux, as I have moved my personal systems over to nixos earlier this year, but I mostly wanted to show off how I moved this blog over. [Read More]

I made an account back in 2018-11-16, and have really enjoyed watching this platform develop. The focus on easy to use, low level tooling, and no nonsense ui design always picqued my interest. However, because I forgot and pages is a somewhat new feature, I launched this site on GitLab. Time to fix that with you now with pages.sr.ht, git.sr.ht, and builds.sr.ht. My muttersprache is Go, so I started this whole endeavour with Hugo, and it seems pretty good so far. [Read More]