Wednesday, May 10 2023
surprise redis finding; leo editor;
Created:
Installing Crossplatform GUI (Qt specifically) on MacOS is still a
pain. After hearing
about leo editor, I tried to
install it using pip and it failed
on compiling pyqt. A quick try at doing it on nixos on orbstack also failed.
Found out newer versions of redis-cli (6.0.16) have
command completion hints. First I thought somehow my remote shell had
acquired copilot features!
found utm that can run Linux on MacOS M1 chips after a futile exercise with orbstack and virtualbox.
TODO: install one of the open source GPT models and play with the “hello world”.
TODO: what is the correct way to use nixos.
- home manager?
- dev environments, specifically for python
- persisting system wide installations?
/etc/nixos/configuration... - what are
nix flakes? - what is
niv