Nix on Salar Rahmanian

Streamline Your Development Workflow: Harnessing the Power of NixOS and Nix Package

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In November 2023 I had the great privilege to do a talk at Scale By The Bay 2023 in San Francisco, California.

Recording of my talk

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Pre-Conference Introduction to talk

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Elevating Python Development with Nix Package Manager

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In October 2023 I had the great privilege to do a talk at PyBay 2023 in San Francisco, California.

Recording of my talk

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Slides

Slides for my talk can be found here.

Using Stable And Unstable Nix/NixOS Channels Together

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For one of my servers that is running NixOS I have been using the stable channel for all packages. However I wanted for one package to use the version of the package that the unstable channel had and had to learn how to do it.

I am using flakes and this is what I originally had as my input:

inputs = {
 nixpkgs = {
 url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-24.11";
 };
 };

I added the unstable channel as an input:

Moving from Homebrew to Nix Package Manager

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 18:30:40 -0700

As all my friends, colleagues and followers know I am very big on functional programming, so when I heard about nixOS and the nix package manager (A Purely Functional package manager) I really wanted to find out more about it.

Quote from Nix

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.