See https://github.com/hercules-ci/flake-parts.

https://github.com/danth/stylix/

With flake-parts, use this doc.

I'd like to find a way to easily search home-manager, nix-darwin and nixpkgs from a centralized place. Maybe I could use Spotlight or Alfred or Raycast for that. I'd like to be able to search the doc from a launcher locally.

I would like to modularize the configuration. It makes sense at the beginning to have a monolithic configuration but I think it would be better to decouple it in separate nix files to make it easier to maintain.

Tasks

• #30
  • alacritty
  • gh
  • git
  • lsd
  • vscode
  • zsh (or fish)

See nix-community/home-manager#2562 which tracks this issue. For now, I used this suggestion: nix-community/home-manager#2562 (comment).

https://github.com/francishamel/macbook-nix/blob/95d5d557a29910c99feb986bf9364d94b3e23de3/home-manager.nix#L169-L171

Fish seems like an interesting shell to use. I'd like to see if it works better than zsh for me. It integrates with starship so that's all good.

Resources

• home-manager definition
• official website

When running gh auth login to login to GitHub, I get the following error: failed to authenticate via web browser: open /Users/francis/.config/gh/config.yml: permission denied.

From the doc, I've seen that I could set GH_TOKEN or GITHUB_TOKEN env variables to authenticate. I would need to find a way handle this token securely.

See the following code snippet to see how to do:
https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/blob/2e4b816bd6702621417c6a2ede9be3a4d019e0aa/minimal/flake.nix#L20-L55

Possible candidates

• sops-nix
• agenix

Set programs.vscode.package to pkgs.vscodium.

tmux is an open-source terminal multiplexer. I could use it to manage multiple panes in my terminal.

$EDITOR is currently set to nano. Set it to VSCode.

This issue will be used to keep track of interesting packages to try and maybe add to my workflow. I should open a separate issue to track the work around setting the program if it's complicated enough.

Packages

• Try nix-index

From NixOS Wiki entry on Flakes:

Flakes allow you to specify your code's dependencies (e.g. remote Git repositories) in a declarative way, simply by listing them inside a flake.nix file.

Relevant links

• nix-darwin's documentation on Flakes
• home-manager's documentation on Flakes

Wordlists are commonly used by pentesting tools like john (password cracker) or gobuster (directory enumerator tool). It would be nice to have a way to setup commonly used wordlists so that they are available on my machine.

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I want to setup nix-direnv to handle my coding projects envs.

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Right now, when I remove a homebrew package from homebrew.casks, it is still on my system. I would like to find a way to make homebrew state conform with my declared configuration.

At first, I wasn't able to see GUI apps installed via nixpkgs in my launcher. I decided to switch from Spotlight to Raycast. I was able to add a custom path to Raycast's Applications indexing. To find the appropriate path, I installed code using nix instead of homebrew. Then I ran which code which gave me /etc/profiles/per-user/francis/bin/code. I did cd /etc/profiles/per-user/francis/bin/ and saw that every file in this folder was a symlink to a file under /nix/store/b7dm4lfyf3b39qa0pw6ws3cj9i5py5f9-home-manager-path/bin/. I followed the link and found /nix/store/b7dm4lfyf3b39qa0pw6ws3cj9i5py5f9-home-manager-path/bin/Applications which I was able to index.

Let's use nix for all the GUI apps that are compatible.

From the doc, Disko takes the NixOS module system and makes it work for disk partitioning as well.

Using https://github.com/lukebfox/nix-configs for inspiration.

I want to make sure that all my PRs are formatted appropriately using nixfmt.

Configure my T420 to use this repo to track its configuration.

I explored flakes in #8. This issue tracks the implementation of flakes.

From the doc, impermanence gives you access to modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage.

It's compatible with Nixos and home-manager. It doesn't seem to be compatible with nix-darwin.

I'd like to set it up for my T420.

References

• https://elis.nu/blog/2020/05/nixos-tmpfs-as-root/
• https://elis.nu/blog/2020/06/nixos-tmpfs-as-home/

I like to do CTFs once in a while. When I do CTFs, I often need to install a bunch of tools I don't typically use. For this reason, I think it would make sense to have a config file that I can import when I want to work on CTFs stuff. For now I'll put everything in this file but I think it would make sense to explore shell.nix for CTFs envs.

I'd like to use some cli tool to make it easier to manage git repositories locally. So far, I found gqh. I could also maybe use Github's cli tool for that?

Only add Github to the list for now.

Since Alacritty is a GUI app, I would need to install it using homebrew.casks. This is caused by a limitation of Mac OS and how Spotlight indexes links (it's not able to find apps installed by nix). I would still like to be able to maintain its config using home-manager tho.

Doc

I can't skip words when using Cmd + arrow or option + arrow. I want to be able to do so.

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• Set a config option for the default user and use it across the config
• Set a config option for the font to use across the config (vscode and alacritty)

I think I can use gh alias to accomplish that.

Basically, I'd like to automatically clone repos under $repos_dir/$gh_user/$repo.