After more than a year later, I've moved back to NixOS on bare-metal.
WSL is fine and all, but it has enough warts that get really annoying,
especially as a Java developer.
I disabled them on previous machine with spinning rust. This
machine (hermes) with SSD has proven capable of handling much higher
filesystem throughput, so I'm pushing it to see how far I can go without
impeding experience.
titan and lapetus are first of two new Raspberry Pi Zero Ws.
While quite anemic and decidedly incapable of running modern NixOS, they
still run Debian well enough, and are still full computers in their own
right.
So they get hostnames, the first of two moons in solar system, starting
from Saturn (should last a while :p), by ascending order of their year
of discovery. After Saturn, it'll be Jupyter, Uranus, Neptune, and then
back inwards starting from Mars. Luna will be last (if we ever manage to
get that far :p)
emacs29-pgtk is now available from NixOS-unstable directly.
the overlay still provides some updates, like more frequent ELPA/MELPA
package updates, but they are incompatible with how doom manages package
updates anyway. I might think about bringin back the overlay without
emacs itself in future, but for now, I'm getting off the bandwagon.
The plan was and still is to get off of overlay and emacs unstable
completely. While the run was pretty good, I consider Emacs to be part
of my digital infrastructure now, and having it broken means bad news.
Removing overlay and going back to stable branch just means reducing the
number of moving pieces, having more eyes on common friction points and
faster resolution. Hope this works as well as I'm expecting now.
..by Mickey Patterson, of Mastering Emacs fame.
The package is supposed to provide finer and nicer structural editing
experience, aided by new treesit(*-ts)-modes, but currently, I use none.
The only tree-sitter mode I currently use extensively is nix-mode, and
it integrates using external tree-sitter module, so as of this commit,
combobulate is fairly useless for me.
Now, doom's development has slowed down significantly, and I foresee
problems on the horizon with these new hodgpodge of tree-sitter modules,
so we'll see.
