TIL - How to Escape Single Quotes in Nix Indented Strings
Recently I was moving my pi sessions to XDG directories and hit an issue putting a Bash script inside a Nix indented string. The script used read -r -d '' to …
Haseeb Majid / my personal corner of the web
Backend engineer.
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Backend software engineer 💻, Linux enthusiast 🐧 and village cricketer 🏏
My thoughts on Go, Nix, developer tools, and the things I learn while building software.
Latest from the notebook / 13 Nov 2026
TIL - How to Escape Single Quotes in Nix Indented Strings
Recently I was moving my pi sessions to XDG directories and hit an issue putting a Bash script inside a Nix indented string. The script used read -r -d '' to read file paths separated by a null character. The Bash was valid, but the '' ended the surrounding …
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TIL - How to Git Push to Multiple Repositories
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My Year in Review 2025
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TIL - How to Fix Tailscale Using Mullvad as Exit Nodes on NixOS
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TIL - How to Fix App Lounge Updates Getting Stuck (MurenaOS/eOS)
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TIL - How to Enable Video Thumbnails for SMB Share on Nixos and Nautilus
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Yak Shaving: Neotest Edition
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TIL - How to Change Emojis in nh
TIL - How to Change Emojis in nh Recently I have been trying to update the emojis when I run nh. Particularly the nom output. The old output was like so: To fix …
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