Approaching nix flakes

June 30, 2021

5 Minutes

Nix flakes are (will be) an importing building block of the wider nix ecosystem. Yet, there is little information about how to provide existing software using flakes, or crucially using nix. This article tries to give some answers to those questions.

Building with Nix Flakes for, eh .. reasons!

January 1, 2021

26 Minutes

internal, technical, nix, haskell

Nix Flakes are the long awaited addition coming with the next major release of Nix. What are Flakes, what do they offer, how can you use them now and should you consider migrating?

The Rust Build System

April 30, 2021

13 Minutes

technical, rust, devops, kth

This essay aims to present a functional description of the Rust build system that exemplifies outstanding efforts of open source CI/CD

Building a reproducible blog with Nix

April 10, 2020

16 Minutes

internal, technical, nix, haskell

Nix is a purely functional package manger that allows isolated development environments and builds. This blog uses it to provide a development environment and to build the blog in a GitHub Action