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Posted on April 16, 2023 In the first part of this series, we learned how to package a small Go application into a Nix flake. In this second part, we will add a service definition and corresponding NixOS module to it, so that we can easily use it on our machines running NixOS! For reference, the entire Flake is available here . NixOS modules To make our service configurable, we will need to add a…
Posted on November 6, 2022 Even though Nix has the most and most up-to-date packages, there is always some software you use that is not included yet. You could of course just download a binary, but if you are reading this you probably would like a more declarative way of dealing with the software you use. Thankfully, Nix flakes make it quite easy and quick to package most software. You can even…
Posted on January 25, 2022 A while ago I got a testing account on rsync.net to try out the experience of using it with zrepl . The experience I has been quite wonderful, and I want to share what I learned with you. What is zrepl? If you use zfs on your NAS, you inevitably think about doing an offsite backup for your data. For this you might use off the shelf tools like Duplicati or borg . As a zfs…