Something Else is a source-level mod that adds machine-generated text to OpenMW, an open-source reimplementation of the game engine from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. The name comes from a new button added to the dialogue window that allows you to enter a custom line of dialogue to speak to an NPC. The button To send me a comment about this project, send an e-mail to: somethingelse@danieltperry.me Info ...
I have a little experience with Nix, but not a whole lot. Recently a post popped up on Hacker News about Zero to Nix, which I decided to run through on my MacBook. After fixing a minor Mac-specific bug (specific to the Zero to Nix installer), I had a Nix installation ready to go! All I needed was something to do with it. I eventually managed to make a PR to nixpkgs (basically Nix’s package manager) for something I personally would find useful, so I thought I would stop and write about something small I struggled with along the way, being new to Nix. ...
I stumbled upon Nix recently and I thought it was a very interesting project. If you’ve managed to find this post, then I imagine you already have an idea of what Nix is. But if not, they’ve provided a handy page describing exactly what makes it so convenient for developers. One of the things you find out very quickly when you start learning Nix is that a lot of information teaching Nix is in the form of blog posts from random people sharing what they’re doing to learn Nix. All of the blog posts seem to be called “Learning Nix” or “Teaching Myself Nix”, and so on. I figured I might as well add to the noise here with my own story on learning Nix 😊. ...