Jan 15, 2024 · Explore how to set up Nix on macOS effortlessly and boost your development workflow. Learn using nix-darwin for declarative package mgmt and sys configuration.

Feb 11, 2024 · Nix is a package manager that provides container-based development environments across platforms. Similar to container systems such as Docker and Kubernetes, Nix allows you to install...

Feb 23, 2024 · In my case, I started using the Nix package manager with the Nixpkgs repository to install stuff on my Mac. I had no intention to replace my operating system and didn’t need to write Nix expressions just yet. Here are some basic package management commands, you can use this as a cheat sheet.

Mar 21, 2025 · In this post, I'll be documenting my steps on getting Nix up and running on macOS, along with using nix-darwin to manage system-wide configurations and packages.

Feb 28, 2025 · Nix is a powerful package manager 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.

Mar 3, 2024 · In this blog post, I showed how to set up Nix on macOS using flakes, nix-darwin, and home-manager like I do. I hope that this blog post can help you set up your configuration and let you use Nix on your machine too.

Jul 9, 2024 · Nix is a powerful package manager 1 for Linux/Unix systems that offers a declarative approach to system configuration. With Nix, you define your system’s state in a configuration file (known as a flake), ensuring that your setup is reproducible across different machines.

Before following these instructions, you should follow the Zero to Nix guide or install Nix on your system in some other way. I’m going to lay out the basic steps that I followed below while sharing each configuration file.

Nov 4, 2024 · Here’s my full Nix config that got me from start to finish with this repo, the one for the website you’re reading. That means installing Neovim, Zellij, and Node.js, as well as Homebrew.

Jul 23, 2022 · In this post, I’m going to stick with running standard Nix binaries and not use any additional tools (although there are two shell scripts that run Nix tools that I find useful at the end of the post). Nix has a bunch of experimental features (including the nix binary itself and flakes 2).