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Spencer Balogh
@hyperparabolic.bsky.social
Software, Nix, Security, Identity

Cycling, Music, Tabletop games

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Chicago
I started building my toplevel NixOS derivations in hydra. There's so much common config and packages that it doesn't make sense to not build them centrally with a cache. I wanted autoUpgrade to be mindful of this, so I made a CLI that gets builds from hydra for upgrades:
github.com/hyperparabol...
GitHub - hyperparabolic/nixos-hydra-upgrade: nixos-rebuild wrapper that waits for hydra build validation and performs health checks.
nixos-rebuild wrapper that waits for hydra build validation and performs health checks. - hyperparabolic/nixos-hydra-upgrade
github.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New Cool Calm Pete album was absolutely not on my 2025 bingo card.
July 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mordenkainen's Arcane Seal, Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum, Mordekainen's Protection From Slime... What was this freak up to?
May 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Where do you talk about #nix / #nixos that isn't big social media? More interested in what people are building. Less interested in memes and diatribes.
March 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cooking something here...
January 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Why am I getting such strong King of the Hill vibes from this Avatar the Last Airbender concept art?
January 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
It’s that time
January 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Reposted by Spencer Balogh
github.com/laylavish/uB...

Massive Ai blocklist for Ublock Origin. So your image result on several browsers can be 90%, or so, Ai-free. (Block also tons of Ai generated crap blogs and "websites").
GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
github.com
December 16, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Latte art for ogres.
December 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Spencer Balogh
It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.
November 21, 2024 at 10:54 AM