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It’s been a bit since updating my progress on what I’ve been lately calling the “cryptic nebula” project. When I last left off I was working on building the mobile nebula using nix. For the moment I gave up on that dream, as flutter and nix just really don’t get along and I don’t…

I've been on a hunt to find a simple and declarative way to define VMs. I wanted something like NixOS Containers, but with a stronger security guarantee. I wanted to be able to use a Nix expression to define what the VM should look like, then reference that on my Server's express…

This post will describe a simple rule for writing error messages that I’ve been using for some time and have found to be worthwhile. Using this rule I can be sure that my errors are propagated upwards with everything needed to debug problems, while not containing tons of extraneo…

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I've made a backup system I can be proud of, and I'd like to share it with you today. It follows a philosophy I've been fleshing out called The Functional Infra. Concretely it aims to: Be pure. An output should only be a function of its inputs. Be declarative and reproducible. A…

After publishing the last post in the series I walked away from my computer feeling that I was very clever and had made a good post. This was incorrect. To summarize the previous post, it’s not obvious which is the best way to structure conditionals in a graphical programming lan…

In the last ginger post I covered a broad overview of how I envisioned ginger would work as a language, but there were two areas where I felt there was some uncertainty: conditionals and loops. In this post I will be focusing on conditionals, and going over a couple of options fo…

When I last left off with the nebula project I wanted to nix-ify the build process for Cryptic’s mobile_nebula fork. While I’ve made progress on the overall build, one particular bit of it really held me up, so I’m writing about that part here. I’ll finish the full build at a lat…

About 3 years ago I put a lot of effort into a set of golang packages called mediocre-go-lib. The idea was to create a framework around the ideas I had laid out in this blog post around the structure and composability of programs. What I found in using the framework was that it w…