Yeah, been looking into digital gardens and such! Seems so cool. I have a Zotero full of papers but really wondering if I should instead move to something like BibTex - I want to be able to add cross-references from my notes, and potentially publish them in future.
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I saw this goofy thing that I've been contemplating trying to resurrect or port to Rust, lol. Would be fun to have your papers/references loaded as a FUSE file system:
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I think there is an org-roam plugin for BibTeX though, if you are in emacs land. I am in VS Code land, alas.
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It's not too late to join us in Emacs land 😉 If only I could share all the research management modes I've starred...
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Haha maybe one day! Still find the keyboard shortcuts/navigation a bit to get my head around. Oh yeah silly me, I imagine there must be a ton out there lol. Currently my main project on my mind is getting my new mac set up with Nix! 😊
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Ooo, jealous! I have been meaning to look at replacing brew with nix- partially because everything breaks on update, partially because we use it at Canva, and partially because... because.
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Oh Canva uses Nix?
It's been nice on the whole, although there's a bit to get your head around at first. Although they are still technically experimental, Nix flakes and the nix command seem to make the experience much nicer than when I tried it in the past!
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Yep- used with bazel (large monorepo)
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Oh cool! Is the approach documented anywhere publicly? I have some silly ideas about maybe trying to build /package the thing we make at work (PrinceXML) with it.
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Hmm, doesn't look like we have anything external. could you write up "What is nix? What is bazel? What is nix AND bazel?"
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Ah no worries! I did at least find this from Tweag: tweag.io/blog/2018-03-1 – is from a while ago though, so not sure how up to date it is.
yeah we should definitely write about our approach. I don't have much to do with the nix/bazel intersection, but I have seen this post referenced a lot internally. cc
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take a look at this repo: github.com/digital-asset/. it's an example of a real world bazel/nix monorepo. I believe tweag were involved in some way
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