With Github recently having issues it was a nice time to see what other options folks recommend. I've run forgejo for a little bit but it always feels like a bit too much for solo projects.
Two new ones mentioned that I haven't seen before were tangled and Radicle. tangled seems like a nice integrated model but self hosting the knot is only one piece of the system. Radicle seems like a farther departure from usual forge systems.
I added a repo to each Radicle and tangled. The tangled story for CI seems nice with Nix based runner. The Radicle system is less developed.
Finally fixing my nix-based dev env on MacOS. I was getting error: tool 'git' not found when in a dev env.
sudo xcode-select --reset
sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
wound up fixing it
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist worked for me when I updated MacOS and needed to reboot. Thanks Dan!