Switching between code variants using comments

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Linus Heckemann Today, I wanted to try out ListenBrainz in conjunction with my self-hosted Navidrome music server. I didn’t want to collect new data for several days before getting interesting suggestions from there, so I had to import some historical...

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Linus Heckemann So you find yourself in an awkward situation. You want to debug the startup of the PID1 of your initramfs. My first piece of advice is not to get into this situation. But should you find yourself there anyway, here’s how Julien Malka, Ryan...

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Linus Heckemann Nix is a powerful tool for making software builds repeatable. By specifying a build as a derivation, with all its inputs “locked” either through content hashes or as derivations themselves, we can easily achieve the same software build...

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Linus Heckemann If you’re taking your NixOS laptop offline for a bit for travel or similar, and you end up trying to reconfigure, you may run into issues because some build dependency of your system is missing – especially if you’ve garbage-collected since...

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Linus Heckemann This is my talk from NixCon 2022, converted with minimal changes into blog post format. What? NixOS is an operating system based on the Nix package manager and Linux. Linux is an operating system kernel, which means it runs on hardware and...