I love Nix. I use it every day to manage multiple local dev environments. And I use devenv instead of docker for sharing project-specific environments with others.
Who wants to use docker on a Mac anyway?
"Super Fast Emacs: Bleeding edge Emacs that fixes itself, thanks to a community overlay"
Could you possibly tell me (or link to the explanation) what's special about that Emacs instance?
https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config/blob/main/module... -- This file appears to be part of it, but I'm not very experienced with Nix so I am unsure of how to find the file that says: "install Emacs by doing this, that, and the other".
I use this homebrew cask and have been very happy with it thus far, but I'm always up for some new exploration. https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus
EDIT2: oh lordy, this snippet:
(setq org-todo-keyword-faces
`(("TODO" . ,dl/green-color)
("STARTED" . ,dl/yellow-color)
("WAITING" . ,dl/light-grey-color)
("DELEGATED" . ,dl/teal-color)
("DEFERRED" . ,dl/dark-grey-color)
("SOMEDAY" . ,dl/purple-color)
("DONE" . ,dl/dark-grey-color)
("CANCELED" . ,dl/dark-grey-color)
("PROJECT" . ,dl/blue-color)
("APPT" . ,dl/green-color)))
oh and the links at the top of that file are 404s.
What that means is if something is broken in Emacs, the community will fix it, and all I need to do is run `nix flake update` to grab the latest commit and then `nix run .#build-switch` to alter my system. Easy.
Thanks for the heads-up on the 404s! I've fixed those links.
In re: to org-agenda, I don't use that as much anymore. But I heavily, heavily using org-roam w/ org-roam-dailies everyday to build my own networked graph of notes. For tasks, nowadays I just use simple docs for projects and Asana to keep a catalog of everything.
For a long time, before really doubling down on Nix, Docker Desktop was my go-to for getting a Linux runtime whenever MacOS wasn’t sufficient for what I needed. It was slow, but way more portable than having a Linux VM running all the time.
Fast forward to now (since I’ve really invested in Nix) and Nix+Nix-Darwin makes my Mac feel just as configurable and extensible as NixOS/any Linux distribution.
Nix makes me an extremely content MacOS user. :)
Keeping my NixOS machine on my desk and Macbook in sync seamlessly is also super cool.
I have a similar albiet differently-structured guide at https://github.com/drakerossman/nixos-musings, but nowhere near the amount of stars you have.
2. Use your README to grab the attention of the user. I have a list of features, videos, etc. at the top.
3. I regularly post on various subreddits, Hacker News, etc. trying to support new Nix users. Sometimes I link to my project as an example of code that may help them. I've done this over a couple of years, so there's now a collection of posts people are finding and driving traffic.
4. My experience was that in the beginning, I had to grind out each star one by one. The project never went "viral". But after a certain growth point, Github will pick it up and start recommending it to others.
5. Reddit and Github are now my biggest sources of traffic.
Hope this helps!
Last time I tried Nix on MacOS it did not end well. Maybe I’ll try this in a VM and see how it goes…