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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How to restore a Nix environment on MacOS 15 Sequoia.

In the blog post Getting started with Nix Package Manager we covered how to install Nix. A quick follow up on that post to discuss how to update a Mac post a system upgrade.

The upgrade will likely wipe out your Nix settings, so a reinstall is a quick way to get up …

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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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Overview

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

The first blog post covers the heredoc command.

Heredoc (Here Document) is a way to pass multiple lines of input to a command. It allows you to redirect input from a string literal within your script, …

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How to clean up a Nix environment on (Debian Bookworm).

In the blog post Getting started with Nix Package Manager we covered how to install Nix. A quick follow up on that post to discuss how to clean up the environment.

The more you use Nix, the more relevant this post will be. So I separated out the details for the …

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How to use Nix on (Debian Bookworm).

What is Nix Package Manager?

"Nix builds packages in isolation from each other. This ensures that they are reproducible and don’t have undeclared dependencies, so if a package works on one machine, it will also work on another."

It may surprise you but Nix also has over …

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Convert CSV to JSON with JQ.

jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

In a previous post I covered the task of converting JSON to CSV.

• Reference: Convert JSON to CSV.

Recently I …

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