Happy New Year man!
Have very similar goals, even JLPT 5, started a little pet project I've been building https://sharyphil.com/japanese/japanese.html , gym goals too, let's go for it!
From my experience, it's really hard to create an account and upgrade your account to PAYG. People saying you need that if you want to get the free tier VM because the free tier VM keep out of stock.
I need to email the customer support to make an account and even then to change my account to PAYG account, I need to register the credit card again, they keep rejecting my credit card even though that is the same credit card that I used for my account and the test payment go through.
After that I just give up and go with Hetzner (same you need to email CS) but I can start paying them immediately after the account created.
I had a different experience. I upgraded a free account last year without needing email anyone. And only did that to use some non-free feature. I had no problems creating free tier compute instances but maybe it depends on region, I'm in Ashburn.
Same I'm on a paid account, currently running a Kubernetes cluster for free is Phoenix. No issues converting from the free account and only once wasn't able to provision one of the ARM vms, and just provisioning in a different AZ worked.
For me, if it need to manually tracked then I will absolutely forget or stop using it because too lazy. Unless you need to track for getting paid or something important.
The website looks clean though, good work!
If you only want to track what are you doing in your laptop or PC, I recommend activitywatch [1], it can detect when AFK and what app or web we open. I only run and forget it and check it later when I want to know what I'm doing this week/month. It's open source and I'm not affiliated with it, just a happy user.
It reminds me of the thinking that a smart home is one that you can turn the lights on or off with a web app or smart assistant. In reality, the most pleasant implementations do something like use motion sensors or wifi/Bluetooth to avoid having to even open the app for the automations to kick in.
E.g.: detecting when no one is connected to the home wifi and locking the doors might be more useful than having the option to remotely do it since there is no need to remember.
Thank you very much for recommending Activitywatch; this seems like something that would be helpful to me. If it works, it will reduce the time I need for project reports etc.
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I guess in that case we can just use this as reference and calculate it by yourself
We see a few tools that do a similar built-on-top-of-Nix approach, so we released a Rust library that makes using the "command line API" in a more type-safe manner: https://github.com/flox/runix
It's exciting to see so much starting to be built with and on top of Nix. We've been working on enabling developers to go beyond the developer environment and into the later stages of the flow. Curious to get your thoughts on what you find the most compelling from the core Nix story/benefits.
Disclosure -> Ron here, co-founder at flox and NixOS Board Member
> It's exciting to see so much starting to be built with and on top of Nix.
It seems like the majority of names I recognize for their contributions from the Nix ecosystem from the past 8 or 9 years are working not just with, but on Nix/Nixpkgs in a professional capacity now, and the trend is continuing.
The list of companies with Nix people on staff has expanded well beyond just Nix consultancies, into cloud-centric SaaS providers, Enterprise software vendors, companies that make developer tools, etc., etc.
It's hard to imagine that with this new capacity for dedication in so many of the most long-standing, prolific, and passionate Nix contributors, that the Nix ecosystem is not poised to grow and mature by leaps and bounds!
Imo, the key will have to be in continuing to nurture an integral community in the face of all these companies now trying to grow Nix and build on top of it in their own, perhaps sometimes conflicting directions. It's a problem all collaborative projects face, and not one entirely new to Nix— there are just more resources in play now. If the Nix community can manage that during this phase, I think there can be no doubt that wonderful things are ahead.
I started from using asdf [1] for managing golang, python and node. My main language is golang but often I need to run project from other language and different version especially python with packages have different version needed from pip i.e python 3.6 and python 3.8
I found about nix and it looks a good fit for my usecase because it not messing with PATH and not spawning container like docker but when I try to use it, I feel overwhelmed by it.
I use devbox now because it's easy to use but definitely will try flox. I welcome any tools that can help reduce nix complexity.
We think the ability to hopscotch between projects and ecosystems without fear is a key value proposition of Nix-based technologies. Our approach is to address the entire user experience from installation and docs all the way to developing, building, publishing, orchestrating, and sharing your software. It is not all ready - we can't do all of it at once; we are laying down the framework.
Please give us a try and offer any feedback, we want to make it easy to adopt for even non-Nixers and enterprise.
Hope 2026 I can finish my todo list
- Got at least JLPT N5
- Work abroad
- Start working out again