I've got a #nix#nixos question for you smart beautiful people:
I've got a program that uses pygame and pyusb installed via shell-nix. I want to also pull in pycycling, but that's not packaged. If I create a venv and install everything via pip, pygame does not work.
My question: How do I install pycycling from pip while still being able to use the other packages installed via nix-shell?
just now with 24.05 i've had this scenario where a software based on nixpkgs 23.11 got incompatible with 24.05 due to dependency changes. #nixos does such a great job. i can still run the 23.11-based flake on an otherwise full 24.05-based system. i mean, i know this is a feature and it should work. but being in this situation and being able to solve it with such ease ist just. stunning. thanks #nix people! on debian i would have no hair left to be ripped out in this situation.
For all the #sops#nix enjoyers out there, Where do you keep your #AGE key? Does it just live on your drive? Do you use something like a #yubikey? Because boot strapping the key with sops obviously doesn't work
Yesterday we were preparing a place for Tbilisi Guix Meetup and one of the residents of hackerspace brough an arm thinkpad. It's the first RISC laptop I see in person that feels modern and satisfying.
I recently came across https://simplex.chat. I really liked it just by reading how it works. But I took a look at the source code today, and I was like: “Oh coool it's in #haskell. Oh, daaaamn they're using #nix quite heavily. I love it. 😍 “
📢 Curious about the the transactional deployment model #nix invented? Intrigued by functional programming #scheme#guile? Looking for tips on #guix? David Wilson (@daviwil) will be giving a talk TOMORROW (Wednesday 29th) at 17:00 UTC - Register here!
Got my first development environment (Jekyll website) running in NixOS on my Framework laptop using devenv. That makes this my first successful dev environment in nix. :) Nice work @domenkozar!
When writing guides and documentation, I always try to write what I would have liked to have read, so here is a guide on how to contribute to #Nix from the perspective of an #RStats user:
Video of the interview with #guix founder @civodul is available. A great chat about the #nix deployment model, his interested in #guile and #free software. Lots of interesting chat about motivation in #freesoftware, #gnu and #linux - as well as the Plan9-ification of Guix!!