Andrew Williams

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  1. macOS App Store, Apple Pay and the missing buttons

    For the past few weeks i’ve been frustrated by a minor issue I couldn’t track down. If I attempted to purchase an app on the Apple App Store, or buy anything via Apple Pay in Safari, I ended up with a box to pay that had no buttons to actually continue. At first I thought it was another glorious Apple failure in macOS, but instead its me who is causing the issue.

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  2. How to Break NixOS With microvm.nix and nix.gc

    I’ve started using NixOS heavily in my homelab in the last few months, inspired by some limited experience a year ago and my love of Terraform I decided to take the plunge with one system in the lab, eventually it finished with the decommissioning of my VMware ESXi host and my Kubernetes cluster. So now I run a NixOS hypervisor hosting several virtual machines via microvm.nix. The microvms are true virtual machines using Qemu and KVM, but share the host’s /nix/store via virtiofs, allowing the…

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