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the Nix package manager

recent posts:

• Building My Site With Nix  18 Dec 2023  jekyll nix  updated 19 Jan 2024

  I’ve had a lot of issues getting my site to build consistently. A while ago, though, I thought I had figured it out and would be able to run bundle exec jekyll serve to build my site locally with the same version of Jekyll and its plugins that are used in CI. However, it wouldn’t last.

• Installing JDKs via nix-darwin  15 Nov 2023  nix macos java nix-darwin

  I’m in the process of moving as many of the installed packages and as much of the configuration of my Mac to nix-darwin. Among the packages that I want on my Mac are various versions of JDKs¹. The way that macOS interacts with JDKs is a bit tricky, so the standard Nix or nix-darwin install doesn’t work, but we can make it work.

  1. why, you may ask. Good question. I don’t actually know if there’s anything that I still use Java for. I used to use it for FRC, though. ↩