Quick note about the attribute "defaults" in a NixOPS network description.

My personal review of NixCon 2017 in Munich. It's about topics I discussed, people I did meet, experiences I made and a few thoughts which I took with me.

When experimenting with NixOS containers, it is sometimes quite nice to just build the container derivation and inspect the result. Being able to use the remote building features makes this even more convenient.

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.