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XMonad has been my main driver for years, and I still think it’s the best X11 window manager ever. However, the X11 windowing system is quite dated, …

What is Home Manager? Quoting the official description from their website: Home Manager "This project provides a basic system for managing a user environment …

Introduction The folks at Garnix have done it again! You can now deploy a NixOS server in minutes, just by defining your system on a flake.nix and git …

Flake schemas were introduced by Determinate Systems (written by Eelco Dolstra — creator of Nix) about half a year ago now (August 2023), which is quite a …

Introduction I blogged about Garnix before, and it’s the solution I’ve been using ever since for continuous integration. However, one thing I was …

Remote builds enable interesting use cases and experiments. Besides building for different architectures, another use case that comes to mind would be having a …

Garnix is a continuous integration (CI) service for Nix flakes that has been in Beta for a while. In their own words "With Nix-specific optimizations, Garnix …

I have recently migrated my entire NixOS and Home Manager (HM) configuration — including programs, services, dotfiles, etc — over to the new kid on …

What if I told you that you can save plenty of time and CPU-power by pre-building your entire NixOS configuration on Github actions? Fresh installations could …

I’ve been a Gnome user for a long time and I have never cared about using a Window Manager ever before but I recently switched to using XMonad full-time. …