Posts on vranix

Fixing my Linux sound issues

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:46:50 -0700

Every couple of days my audio and audio applications would stop working. Through some trial and error I found that restarting pipewire-pulse would temporarily work around the issue– music would play again, my volume keys would start working – for another couple of days..

systemctl restart --user pipewire-pulse

I eventually tired of this work-around and decided to look into it further. The messages coming from the pipewire-pulse server looked like this, one for each failed attempt to do something, like volume-up/down.

Introducing Geniveev: a CLI for boilerplate generation

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 06:47:09 -0700

I worked on a product with a microservice architecture for a while. As one does working in such an environment, I found myself creating a lot of little services. Each of these services was first described as a service in a protobuf file. The services were compiled into an interface which you would then implement. We also used a tool for injecting dependencies to make creating these services easier.

This is a long way for me to say that to start a new project, I would generally have to create three files in different (new) directories. Like any self-respecting developer, I would hunt down one such file, create the new directory, copy an existing file to the new directory, do some deletion and substitions and work my way to the next file until I was done. This process felt hokey because it was; the developer experience was lacking.

home-manager neovim setup: embedded lua highlighting

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 06:47:09 -0700

Problem

I use home-manager to manage my neovim configuration. When using a plugin, a typical configuration snippet might look like this:

{
 plugin = neogit;
 type = "lua";
 config = ''
 require('neogit').setup {
 disable_commit_confirmation = true,
 integrations = {
 diffview = true,
 }
 }
 '';
}

This works well enough for me. I like how I can specify the configuration for a plugin next to where I specify the plugin itself. The only problem is that by default the lua configuration is highlighted as nix code, i.e., as one large string.

Problems with self-hosting

Thu, 12 May 2022 09:10:16 -0700

Even nerds don’t want to run their own servers

This is a quote from Moxie Marlinspike’s post My first impressions of web3. This article is great critique of web3. He makes a number of good points, but what I found most interesting was his assertion that people do not want to run their own servers. And I cannot stop thinking about this and not b/c I think he’s wrong, but b/c I think these challenges can be overcome.

Nix dev shells from 10,000 feet

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:37:53 -0800

Setting the scene

After neglecting this small place on the internet for years, I cloned the repo with the hope of quickly updating my resume. This site is constructed with Hugo, which is a static site generator written in golang. Anyway, I needed to install that too, so I edited my home-manager configuration and switched, i.e., I installed it.

There was an attempt

First thing I tried was running “hugo serve” which starts a web server and serves the content of your hugo project so changes can be seen as you make them. But that failed. I don’t remember the errors; it’s not important, I knew what happened- years had passed, non-backward compatible changes had been made to hugo and something I was doing no longer worked. That’s one way of putting it. The more correct way of putting it is that I was using a much newer version of hugo for a website that was created using a previous version. This was my own mistake and this wasn’t going to happen again. This time I would fix the glitch.