Wrap up of the second hackathon day after NixCon 2017.

A quick example about how to use the library function remove to adjust a package's dependencies based on a given condition.

Quick note about the needed bits to get remote building for Nix into a working state on OSX.

Wrap up of the first hackathon day after NixCon 2017.

Just got a plain SQL dump of a database and in this case pg_restore does not work. This post shows how to use psql to load such a dump into a database in the context of a local development environment.

Export of the slides from my talk at PyConWEB 2017 about using Nix the purely functional package manager to get reproducible development environments.

Slide content plus my notes from the talk "Deep Dive into NixOPS' Container Backend" which a gave at a NixOS Meetup in Munich.

Notes from first experiments using org-reveal to create presentations from Org files. The rendered presentations are based on reveal.js.

Notes about starting out with GPGSuite on OSX to get a working GnuPG integration with Apple's Mail application. Had to tweak things slightly to use the GnuPG installation from Nix.

Howto start a Redis service ad-hoc thanks to nix-shell.