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Blog posts

I write about my technical decisions, and things I learned.

• 2026-08-22 - Declarative GNOME Customizations with Stylix
• 2026-06-07 - Declarative Hetzner Cloud Servers with NixOS
• 2025-10-12 - NixOS on the Framework Desktop
• 2025-04-19 - esbuild's build API is pretty cool
• 2024-10-18 - Deploying Nix builds on Fly.io
• 2022-10-27 - Manage secrets in NixOS
• 2022-04-11 - Create Rust binaries, and Docker images with Nix
• 2022-04-11 - What I learned from building an emoji URL shortener in Rust
• 2022-03-06 - Packaging pre-built binaries with nix

Projects

Projects I had fun working on.

• TacoHiro - Build happier and grateful communities (with tacos!)
• RemoteHiro - A lightweight job aggregator with mandatory salary ranges.
• moneyman - A currency converter and ECB data fetcher for local forex rates access.
• puggle - An experimental static site generator with `jinja2` as the templating engine.

Videos

• 2026-07-20 - moving my neovim config out of NixOS cause rebuilds take too long
• 2022-04-12 - How Dangerous Is This Cave? (José Valim's Advent of Code: Day 9)
• 2021-12-13 - Day 8 is just ridiculous (José Valim's Advent of Code)
• 2021-12-11 - This may be the HARDEST one yet. (José Valim's Advent of Code Day 6: Lanternfish)
• 2021-12-09 - Safely Navigate The Submarine with Elixir (José Valim's Advent of Code Day 5: Hydrothermal Venture)
• 2021-12-08 - Is Functional Programming Better For This Bingo Problem? (José Valim's Advent of Code Day 4)
• 2021-12-05 - José Valim Solves the Hardest Day Yet with Elixir! (José Valim's Advent of Code Day 3)
• 2021-12-04 - José Valim Pilots a Submarine with Elixir (José Valim's Advent of Code Day 2: Dive!)
• 2021-12-04 - How José Valim Solved Advent of Code 2021 with Elixir and LiveBook (José Valim's Day 1: Sonar Sweep)