It’s been several days since I reinstalled a bunch of stuff with Nix instead of Homebrew, and so far everything has been fine. I mean, the software I installed, like, works the same. As far as I can tell. But I realize that I should probably update my packages, and see if there are any juicy new bytes to keep my hard drive entertained. I really didn’t expect that this would be worthy of a blog post but, well, here we are: my first upgrade. Attempt.| ianthehenry.com
We open on a chat conversation that I had with my good friend and former colleague “Doug,” in which we were discussing my experience reading through the Nix manual. ian: there were certain things that i wanted to learn how to do ian: and i still don't really know how to do them ian: like ian: it seems like ian: you should just have a file ian: called "ian.nix" ian: where you write down the things you want ian: and then there should be a way to say "install exactly this set of things" ian:...| ianthehenry.com