home-manager with Austin Horstman (khaneliman)
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home-manager with Austin Horstman (khaneliman)

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Chapters (generated)

00:00 Introduction
02:18 Journey into Software Development
05:01 Exploring Open Source and Nix
06:59 Personal Use of Nix and Home Lab Projects
09:30 Transitioning to NixOS for Home Lab
12:05 Contributions to Nixpkgs
14:15 NixVim and Plugin Management
16:46 Yazi Plugin Set and Customization
28:24 Exploring Yazi Plugins and UI Enhancements
32:31 Diving into home-manager and Nix Configuration
34:18 Understanding home-manager's Role in User Configuration
38:06 The Evolution of home-manager and Community Contributions
41:10 Streamlining CI Processes with BuildBot
58:27 Caching Solutions and CI Infrastructure
59:46 home-manager Activation Gotchas
01:03:01 Contributions and Open Source Involvement
01:10:36 Future Plans

https://github.com/khaneliman
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/commits?author=khaneliman

https://github.com/ranger/ranger
https://github.com/jarun/nnn
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start
https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/59a03d77b227ba4d3e2975f2b07ae6de0fb0363a/pkgs/development/lua-modules
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/59a03d77b227ba4d3e2975f2b07ae6de0fb0363a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/59a03d77b227ba4d3e2975f2b07ae6de0fb0363a/pkgs/by-name/ya/yazi/plugins
https://alacritty.org/
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
http://wezterm.org/
https://ghostty.org/
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
https://github.com/ndtoan96/ouch.yazi
https://github.com/Reledia/Glow.yazi
https://github.com/wylie102/duckdb.yazi
https://zellij.dev/
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie
https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
https://github.com/Ape/smart-enter.yazi
https://github.com/imsi32/yatline.yazi
https://snowfall.org/


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Creators and Guests

Shahar
Host
Shahar "Dawn" Or
Author of the Full Time Nix podcast and The Molybdenum Software Show
Austin Horstman
Guest
Austin Horstman
Senior Software Engineer