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This week I received a new 12th Gen Intel laptop from Framework. And like with any new piece of hardware I get these days, my first instinct was to put NixOS on it 😄.

But I wasn’t just content with firing up the NixOS installer and getting to work. Oh no no no. You see, I knew there was a better way. I didn’t now exactly what that better way looked like just yet, but I could feel in my bones that it existed.

So I did what I usually do when I suspect there’s a better way of doing something in Nix land and pinged Mic92. What you’ll read in the rest of this post is the result of our conversations.

Creating a custom linter can be a great way to enforce coding standards and detect code smells. In this tutorial, we'll use Sylver, a source code query engine to build a custom Javascript linter in just a few lines of code.

When I first started using Linux in 2006 I remember dreaming of a Linux Console. The idea maybe wasn't so far fetched at the time, the PlayStation 3 had just been released with OtherOS support which allowed users to install Linux (or BSD). Still, it seemed that a Linux-first console would only ever be a dream. Now in 2022, Valve's Steam Deck is a hackable Linux-first portable console.

Today, we'll be putting Nix on it, because what's Linux without Nix?