I came across dendritic nix a while ago. I didn’t know enough about flake-parts at the time to really get my head wrapped around it, but I definitely sympathized with the problems people thought it helped solve in the surrounding discussion.

I kept seeing it, and I kept poking at the composing parts, and eventually I got it. I’m currently almost finished migrating my dotfiles to the dendritic pattern. I mostly just need to re-write some of my docs, revise my bootstrap scripts for the new repo structure, and take care of a few flake level stragglers (overlays, templates), but my migration of internal nixos and home-manager modules is complete!

This blog post gives a high level overview flake parts, and the dendritic pattern. It gets into some of the ideas I find the most useful, and also gives an overview of my migration strategy and a retrospective on this change.

I’ve wanted comments here for a second, but this is a static site (GitHub pages) and I’ve always had some deal breaker turnoff with every embeddable option I’ve looked into. I saw giscus recently and thought it looks pretty nice.

What a beautiful melody… As I listened to the performance, I thought about all I’d seen…

A quick little tab. In the game Metaphor: ReFantazio, there’s a tavern bard named the Elegant Performer. If you talk to him he asks you about what city has left the largest impression on you, and if you answer Grand Trad, he plays a solo guitar variation of Grand Trad’s Night Theme.