/me waves to @escowles https://escowles.github.io/tw.txt

oops I forgot the url in my last message https://gist.github.com/edsu/855230f4754d6d11844d

maybe -q will do the trick? http://edsu.github.io/twtxt/config.txt

@ruebot did you add a post_tweet_hook like this? http://edsu.github.io/twtxt/config.txt

My twtxt is running on GitHub gists \o/

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Jekyll and Git
I have been using Jekyll for a while now, but all this time I have been generating it on the server, That is, I had had a directory on the server holding the Jekyll files, in which I would run jekyll build to generate the website. Not too streamlined.

Before hosting this weblog on Vultr, I had it on GitHub, and their Pages would do the publishing for … ⌘ Read more

Moved to a Droplet
Having wished for a while to run this little site on SSL —as well as having the freedom to do more things— which GitHub does not allow, I have finally decided to move to a virtual server of my own. At $5 a month per droplet, DigitalOcean was the provider of choice.

DigitalOcean droplets web interface is very clean, simple, responsive and functional. Spawning the server took 54 sec … ⌘ Read more

Stdenv updates branch merged into master
The stdenv-updates branch has\
 been merged into the master branch of Nixpkgs. The main
change are that brings is that Nixpkgs/NixOS are now based on
GCC 4.8 and Glibc 2.18, in addition to many smaller updates. ⌘ Read more

NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in
order to simplify development. The sources now live in the nixos\
 subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository on GitHub. See the
announcement
for more information. ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
Today Sander van\
 der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A\
 Reference Architecture for Distributed Software\
 Deployment! It describes (among other things) [Disnix](https://github.com/s … ⌘ Read more

Create files on GitHub
There is a new feautre on GitHub, and this one allows you to create files directly from the web interface. This is very handy, for those of us running Jekyll.

This is my first test of the feature, I had to try it right away. Only wishing now to have a friendlier Markdown/kramdown editor. But it’s a start. I like it! ⌘ Read more

Hydra talk at Inria
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk on Hydra at Inria (which has
its own Hydra instance for building Inria software) entitled “Hydra:\
 continuous integration for demanding people”. ⌘ Read more

Moving to GitHub
The NixOS project is (slowly) migrating from Subversion to Git!
The master repositories will be hosted in the NixOS organization on GitHub. For the moment, just a
few subprojects have been migrated, such as Hydra and Charon. Thanks to
Tianyi Cui for donating the NixOS GitHub organization. ⌘ Read more

ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
The paper “Automating System\
 Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines” (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the 21st IEEE International\
 Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
en … ⌘ Read more

Hydra
Nix
and NixOS
releases are now built in Hydra, the new Nix-based
continuous build system. Hydra replaces our old Nix-based\
 build farm, which will be phased out soon. There are
several advantages over the old build farm: the build tasks for
a project are scheduled and published separat … ⌘ Read more

DisNix paper accepted at HotSWUp
The paper “Atomic Upgrading of Distributed Systems” (by Sander
van der Burg, Eelco Dolstra and Merijn de Jonge) has been
accepted for presentation at the First ACM Workshop on Hot\
Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp). A draft\
of the paper is available. It describes Sander’s master’s
thesis research on DisNix, an extension … ⌘ Read more

LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal\
Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\
Functional DSLs” at 8th\
Workshop on Language\
Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). It’s about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h … ⌘ Read more

HotOS paper on NixOS
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper Purely\
Functional System\
Configuration Management at the 11th Workshop on\
Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI). It gives an
overview of the ideas behind NixOS. The
slides
are also available. ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis defended
Eelco Dolstra
defended his PhD\
 thesis on the purely functional deployment model. ⌘ Read more