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A game engine and editor for little worlds. Very approachable, minimal, and limited in capability. Perfect for teaching, experimentation, and story telling.

Also on Itch.

A configuration language that is also a statically typed, Turing-incomplete programming language with guaranteed termination.

You can use it to write refactorable configuration files.

Can’t be worse than YAML.

A keyboard customization tool for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux.

Parses a subset of LaTeX into an AST and converts it into XML or any of a number of output formats (EPUB, MathML, etc.).

To be honest, I am a bit disappointed that it is necessary to use a separate tool to do this in the first place.

Say you want to write a book and publish it in both printed and ebook form and ideally also have a customizable, stylable web version of it with good navigation and accessibility, what format are you supposed to write it in if not LaTeX? DocBook? AsciiDoc? Scribble?

A CI server for Nix builds. Optimized to take advantage of Nix’s reproducible builds by integrating a Nix store as a build cache.

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I just finished migrating my Mailcow installation from a native Kubernetes port that I had made by hand and that was becoming impossible to update to a more streamlined (albeit wasteful with resources) deployment where I wrap docker-compose and a dedicated Docker instance in a Kata container that I run as a Kubernetes pod.

The container is built as a Nix expression and is available in my public Kubeia repository, which contains part of my Kubernetes deployment configuration and image build scripts. A README is available too, in case you would like to try running it yourself.

Do note that the Kubernetes deployment file is just provided as an example. It contains some pretty specific references to my particular deployment – view it as something like a template that you will have to copy and fill with your own data. Another idiosyncracy is that I really really dislike running multiple database servers on a single piece of hardware and so I kluged something in that makes Mailcow use my already provisioned MariaDB instance rather than its own. In other words, your mileage may very much vary.

A C library that you can use to build native binaries that are portable between Linux, macOS, various BSDs, and Windows. An impressive hack.

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