First thoughts on using node2nix to mange a development environment which contains a mix of Python and Node dependencies. In this step I describe my use case and the first impressions of node2nix.

The package collection nixpkgs has a nice way to configure and tweak the package set based on the configuration file ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix.

Changing something in pythonPackages was not so obvious to me though. In my case I used dulwich on Darwin. It was pulled in as a dependency of …

Overview and insights into how development environments for Python can be reliably managed based on the Nix package manager.

Another piece in my technology puzzle to set up a simple blog based on a static site generator is Nix - The Purely Functional Package Manager.

A small snippet to get the version if the nixpkgs which are currently used. Useful when tracking down trouble and trying to reproduce things with the correct commit.