Tech Posts

Here you can find all kinds of tech post of technologies I'm exploring. For now it's pretty empty, and mainly about Rust and Split-Keyboards, but in the future I plan on having more diverse topics and some small projects.

Aliases problems with `nix-shell`+ `direnv`

Wednesday 30 April 2025

886 words

5 min

When working in reproducible development environments, nix-shell and direnv form a powerful duo — more precisely nix-direnv. Combined, they allow per-project environments to be automatically loaded when entering a directory — no manual shenanigans needed. Nonetheless, one recurring pain point is the frustrating interaction between nix-shell, direnv, and Bash aliases. While developing this personal blog using Zola, I had some scripts that I wanted to run on the background in an easy way — namely …

TwoOfUs - My Custom Keyboard & Layout

Wednesday 23 April 2025

2157 words

11 min

Recently. I’ve been dabbling once again into the ergo-split keyboard development/building rabbit hole and it came to mind that I haven’t written about the keyboard+layout that I’ve been using. My current keyboard needs have changed, and I started looking for interesting new avenues to pursue, like the 5-way switches I discovered when I stumbled upon this keyboard named Fulcrum and the amazing one-hand 2x4 keyboard ARTSEY which is built on top of combos. It’s been over a year since I’ve had my ke…