Sidhion
sidhion.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Sidhion is a programmer who writes about software design, NixOS, public companies and a personal experiment with 28-hour days.
What HN saysHN commenters link his NixOS server post as a good article on its issues and his 28-hour day posts when discussing sleep schedules.
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- 420 Years of Programming2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 528h Days: year 1 update1 people · 198 points · first shared 2025 · 128 comments on HN
- 6NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't1 people · 182 points · first shared 2024 · 168 comments on HN
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- 11Mountains of software: a romantic and a classical perspective1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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- 13Nixos server issues1 people · first shared 2026
What HN people wrote when they linked it
nylonstrung · 2026-06-21
https://sidhion.com/blog/nixos_server_issues/
Here's another good article on the topic
It's unfortunate that Perl and Python are core deps, as well as Bash
fastball · 2025-01-09
Yes, it is linked[1] in the first sentence of the article.
[1] https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/
MrsPeaches · 2025-01-09
All in the original post: https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/
This was just the 1 year update.
Idea is that you go to be when you feel tired.
timerol · 2025-01-09
It makes me happy that OP posted https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/ in October of 2023, and somehow lasted 4 months before learning about https://xkcd.com/320/. It's interesting that OP decided to try to align to a daytime schedule on the weekend, instead of during the workweek as in the comic.