{
  config,
  pkgs,
  lib,
  ...
}: {
  home.username = "synchronous";
  home.homeDirectory = "/home/synchronous";
  home.stateVersion = "25.11"; 
  imports = [
    ./programs/programs.nix
  ];

  home.sessionVariables = {
    EDITOR = "nvim";
    SHELL = "/etc/profiles/per-user/synchronous/bin/zsh"; # just zsh no longer works?
    HOME = "/home/synchronous";
    # XDG_CACHE_HOME = "$HOME/.cache";
    DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS = "unix:path=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus";
  };

  programs.home-manager.enable = true;

  home.packages = with pkgs;
  [
    netcat
    git
    # neovim
    firefox
  ]
      ++ (
      with lib; let
        # this function extracts the base file name from a path.
        basename = path: lib.lists.last (lib.strings.splitString "/" (toString path));

        files = lib.filesystem.listFilesRecursive ./scripts;
      in
        # for each script found, create a derivation installed in $PATH
        lib.lists.forEach files (
          file: let
            scriptName = strings.removeSuffix ".sh" (basename file);
          in
            pkgs.writeScriptBin
            # (basename file) # the new package's name
            scriptName
            (builtins.readFile file)
        )
    );


}