[ANN] A piece of flake nix repository
Haskell Community [Unofficial]
March 22, 2026
shinzui:
> this an open-source version
I wasn’t aware of that project, but I anticipated I wouldn’t be the first to explore this idea. It’s too obvious and straightforward to have remained untouched for the years that flakes have existed. I was primarily motivated by the opportunity to experiment with the STM library, which plays a key role on the server side. At the moment, I’m working on an alternative frontend built with Miso.
Miso seems production-ready: the compressed JS bundle is smaller than Bulma’s minified (but uncompressed) CSS file. I remember choosing Bulma about 10 years ago precisely because it was a tiny and simple library.
The open-source aspect of such a project is not particularly important, since it mainly addresses discoverability, and local instances provide limited value.
One difference I noticed at first glance is that the system requires login. I skipped it, since it feels unnecessary in this context—flakes are hosted on GitHub anyway.
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