Nix

Kernel Self Protection

2017-06-04

grsecrurity have stopped releasing their unstable kernel patches, leaving a bit of a void if you want to add those layers of protection to your kernel. …

Nix hackathon March 2017

2017-03-17

Earlier this month Smarkets was being awesome and hosted our 2nd Nix hackathon. We had a fantasic crowd of smart people, and the Smarkets office was downright amazing. We had standing desks with extra monitors. The coffee was so thick that it was still strong in homeopathic doses. We even had smarties on tap. …

IPython shells with nix, updated

2016-11-03

I’ve written about IPython shells with Nix previously. …

NixOS security-updates update

2016-10-01

This weekend Nicolas Pierron (nbp on GitHub) came to London for a NixOS hackathon. He’s been working on improving security updates in NixOS for a while. He’s the author of the NixOS module system amongst other things. He has a successful track record of complex, tree-wide changes so if anyone can nail this, it’s him. The main output of our weekend is this blog post with his ideas. …

Nginx in NixOS 16.09

2016-09-11

The beta release of NixOS 16.09 comes with a very cool config generator for your NGINX configuration. It makes it easy to: …

Prepare NixOS disk image for another computer

2016-06-29

When installing my deep-learning box I didn’t have a monitor so I had to blast the disk-image straight onto a disk with dd. …

Quick IPython shells with nix-shell

2016-02-11

I often want to quickly experiment with a Python package without the whole virtualenv shenanigans. For that I have an ipython-nix command in my .bashrc: …