Niclas Overby Ⓝ

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Projects

• My Nix Flakes
• RadikalWiki

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Stack

• ✅: Good for now
• 🚧: Transitioning
• 🚫: Blocked
• ❓: Undecided
• 🆗: Not needed
• ⬅️: Backward compatible

Hardware

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Legacy
✅	Laptop		Framework 13	Dell XPS 13 Plus 9320
✅	Mobile		Google Pixel 7 Pro	Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus
✅	Watch		Fēnix 7 – Sapphire Solar Edition	PineTime
✅	AR Glasses		XReal Air 2 Pro	XReal Light
✅	Input		Tap XR	Tap Strap 2
✅	Earphones		Shokz Openfit	Shokz Openrun Pro
✅	E-book Reader		reMarkable 2	reMarkable 1

Standards

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Legacy
🚧	IoT Connectivity Standard	Matter
🚧	Wireless Media	Matter	ChromeCast	Miracast

Base

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Compat	Legacy
🚧	Config Language	Nickel	Nix	Organist
🚧	Package Manager	Tvix	Nix	⬅️
🚧	Web Runtime	Deno	Node.js	Node.js API
✅	Distro		NixOS	OCI, Distrobox	Fedora Silverblue
✅	Kernel		Linux
✅	Init System		Systemd
✅	IPC	Busd	Dbus
🚫	Container CLI			OCI	Docker
🚧	Container Runtime		Youki	OCI	Runc
✅	Typesetting		Typst	❓	LaTeX

Shell

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Compat	Legacy
✅	Shell		Nushell	❓	Bash
✅	Core Utilities		Nushell Builtins	uutils	Coreutils
✅	Directory Usage		Dust	uutils	Coreutils
✅	Superuser		Sudo-rs	⬅️	Sudo
✅	Fortune		Fortune-kind	⬅️	Fortune-mod
✅	Find Files		Fd	🆗	Findutils
✅	Find Patterns		Ripgrep	🆗	Grep
✅	Terminal Workspace		Zellij	🆗	Tmux
✅	Network Client		Xh	❓	Curl
🚫	Environment Loader	Envy	Direnv	❓

Dev

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Compat	Legacy
🚧	Compiler Framework	Mlir, Cranelift	LLVM	⬅️
🚧	System Language		Mojo, Rust	cxx, bindgen	Go
🚧	Scripting Language	Mojo	TypeScript	RustPython, WASI, Interface Types	Python
🚫	Version Control	Gitoxide	Git	⬅️ ️️️️
✅	Build Script		Just	❓	GNU Make
✅	Editor		Helix	🆗	Neovim, Vim
✅	IDE		Zed	LSP, DAP, BSP	VS Codium
✅	System Call Tracing		Lurk	🆗	Strace
✅	Optimize PNG		Oxipng	🆗	Optpng
🚫	Meta Database	Surrealdb	Hasura	GraphQL
🚫	Database	Tikv	Postgres	❓
🚫	Storage Engine	Sled		❓	RocksDB

Libraries

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Compat	Legacy
🚧	Compression	Zlib-rs	Zlib	⬅️
🚧	TLS Protocol	Rustls	Openssl	⬅️
🚧	HTTP Protocol	Hyper	Nghttp2, Nghttp3	⬅️
🚧	HTTP Client	Reqwest	Curl	⬅️
🚧	Font Rendering	Cosmic-text	HarfBuzz, FreeType	⬅️
🚧	Browser Engine	Servo	Gecko	⬅️

GUI

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Compat	Legacy
🚫	Web Toolkit		React	Web Component
✅	2D Toolkit		Iced	Cosmic Gtk Theme	GTK, Qt
🚧 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/259641	Desktop Environment	Cosmic Epoch	Cosmic	Gnome Shell
🚧	File Manager	Cosmic Files	GNOME Files
🚧	Web Browser	Verso	Firefox	Chrome Extension API
🚧	Media Player	Cosmic Player	Mpv	FFMPEG, GStreamer
✅	GUI Package Manager		Flatpak	🆗	Snap, AppImage
✅	App Browser		Cosmic Store	🆗	GNOME Software

Media

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Compat	Legacy
🚫	Image Editing		GIMP
🚫	Vector Graphics		Inkscape

Mobile

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Compat	Legacy
✅	OS	Murena	GrapheneOS
✅	Keyboard		Thumb-Key		OpenBoard

Services

Status	Component	R&D	Current	Compat	Legacy
✅	DNS		NextDNS		Rethink DNS
✅	Search Engine	Stract	Kagi	Search Shortcuts	StartPage, DuckDuckGo
✅	LLM		Claude		OpenAI o1
✅	Microblogging		Mastodon, Bluesky	❓	Twitter
✅	Messaging		Beeper, Matrix	Matrix Bridges	Telegram
✅	Media Sharing		Pixelfed		Instagram
🚫	Book Cataloging	Bookwyrm	Goodreads	OpenLibrary
🚫	Film Cataloging	❓	Letterboxd	OpenLibrary
🚫	Music Cataloging	❓	Spotify	OpenLibrary
🚫	Fitness Cataloging	❓	Strava
✅	Food Cataloging		HappyCow
✅	Online Encyclopedia	Ibis	Wikipedia

Watch List

Stack

Zed

• Helix Keymap
• Direnv

Helix

• Nushell Helix Mode
• VSCode Helix Keymap

Zig

• Divorce from LLVM
• Comptime Interfaces

Matrix

• Discord Forum Support

Nix

• Flamegraph Profiler
• Multithreaded Evaluator
• Meta Categories
• fromYAML Builtin
• Allow Derivations To Hardlink
• Pipe Operator
• Inherit As List
• Meson Port

Redox

• The Road to Nix

World

Mastodon

• View Remote Followers
• View Old Posts
• Make Financial Supporters Visible

Legacy

ECMAScript

• Pattern Matching:
  • Extractors
• Pipeline Operator:
  • Call This
• Type Annotations
• Record & Tuple
• ADT Enum
• Do Expressions
• Operator Overloading
• Array Grouping
• Signals

JS/TS Toolchain

• Ezno: Static JS Type Checker

React/JSX

• JSX Props Pruning
• React Native Promise