This repository contains all of my configurations and programs on my devices. They are all written using the Nix expression language, so that I can get ephemeral builds with very expressive parameters and versioning that run on all platforms and dont break.

In the root directory you find my Nix home-manager configs. Home-manager configures my home directory and dotfiles on Ubuntu-22.02LTS, Debian 11, Arch Linux as well as on my new Apple MacBook Pro M4. home.nix contains the configurations for my installed programs such as vim.

To replicate my home directory, dotfiles and installed/configured programs without breaking your own one, you need to install and run this podman container as shown below.

IMPORTANT! If you have made changes to local files that get imported by the flake, then you need to stage them into the git tree with ``git add .```

podman build -t nix .
podman run -it nix
git add .
nix run nixpkgs#home-manager -- switch --flake ./#$USER

Simply install nix and then run this

sudo chmod +x ./build.sh
./build.sh

You then might need to source your current shell to apply the changes made by nix-darwin and home-manager.

Additionally to a fully-fledged ephemeral and immutable home-directory, I provide here my development shells in form of different nix-shells. A nix-shell is basically a file, that temporarily changes your home-directory and PATH variable to include a specified set of versioned programs that we can pull from the nix-registry. After stopping the nix-shell, the PATH and home directory will be rolled back to its previous state. So If you ever experience the pain of managing different versions of nodejs, you can simply setup a nix-shell to manage this for you.

You can find the shells under ./shells/*.

Simple run nix-shell with the path flag to the relative file-path of the nix shell.

nix-shell -p <path to nix shell>

# nix shell that installs nodejs 22 LTS and bunjs
nix-shell -p shells/bun.nix