Hey folks, for about 10 months or so been working on a hobby project just to get more practice in Linux application packaging, the Rust ecosystem/utilities, and software development on Nix and NixOS (as well as solve some personal pain points in using a HDMI TVs and projectors with PCs).
I'm posting here as while the project isn't still fully stable, it's daily drivable and fully documented, and I feel other Nix users aren't too shy of beta software. While the pedantic app code may not be much to write home about, I'd be curious here on feedback of my nix packing approach, use of flakes for development and distribution, dev shell setup, and systemd services & permissions.
The app itself follows more of a distributed pub/sub architecture (my background is in robotics and cyber-physical system design, not desktop software), so converging on IPC and middle-ware libraries I've been meaning to experiment while keeping the installable setup self contained was a balance.
I've also adopted Cachix into the release pipeline (sparing my poor laptop and RPi from building the arm binaries with every release), but would be interested in finding other (Rust?) projects making use of Nix in CI for development to learn from, as that remains a large gap in GitHub Actions setup that is still imperatively Ubuntu based.
Links to the rendered docs and source repo (NixOS install instruction included if you'd like to try it).
Cheers