Tired of wrestling with complex dependencies and environment setups on your virtual machines? Or perhaps you're constantly updating those Packer scripts? If so, this guide is for you! By combining Nix with unattended installation methods, you can save significant time and effort, making your VM provisioning process …

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A quick blog post on using nix with Firebase.

Getting Firebase to work with Nix just requires a few package to get going 😂 If you have worked with Firebase, you know setting up the environment can be royal pain. Never fear, Nix can help with getting you ready to start developing locally.

Firebase provides a fantastic …

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A quick blog post on using nix with Go.

Wait go isnt your jam 🤯, then swap out Go package with your favourite language 😂

Nix-Shell is my favourite part of Nix. Using Nix-Shell, you can temporarily install packages, but keep that new machine feel.

Go excels at building fast, efficient applications. Nix excels at …

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Overview

While revising for some Kubernetes exams, I realised I havent done a blog post on some useful commands.

The third blog post covers the patch command. For alot of situations patch can be a more straightforward approach to updating similar files. If you are not familiar with patch, it takes the ouput from a diff …

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Overview

While revising for some Kubernetes exams, I realised I havent done a blog post on some useful commands.

The second blog post covers the diff command.

The diff command in Linux is a powerful utility used to compare files line by line. It identifies the differences between two files and outputs these changes in …

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