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New comment by tomberek in "Nix Derivation Madness"

tomberek — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:33:52 +0000

Presumably this would support a big improvement to both SBOM generation as well as various UX features and workflow improvements.

New comment by tomberek in "Experimenting with Flox's new build and publish"

tomberek — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:09:09 +0000

Trading perfect reproducibility for usability: a pragmatic look at Flox's new features

Experimenting with Flox's new build and publish

tomberek — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:09:09 +0000

Article URL: https://thefridaydeploy.substack.com/p/experimenting-with-floxs-new-build

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44630236

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Docker Replacement Flox Has Libraries for Kubernetes

tomberek — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:03:19 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/docker-replacement-flox-has-libraries-for-kubernetes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42782479

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomberek in "Run a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS"

tomberek — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:23:28 +0000

This is exactly how I can rapidly prototype things. Once proficient with this tooling is becomes very easy to quickly spin up services and PoCs. Managing it and iterating is also a breeze.

New comment by tomberek in "You can use C-Reduce for any language"

tomberek — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:23:15 +0000

Random thought. Another commenter worried about the runtime of the program becoming mangled and performing destructive operations on your machine. What if you run the reducer as a source-to-source Nix derivation? Protects against dangerous things, and can be easily distributed to remote builders.

New comment by tomberek in "Developing with Docker"

tomberek — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:16:02 +0000

Agreed. Packaging is different than deployment. Devs should return to the art of packaging, such that their software can be then deployed into containers, VMs, micro VMs, whatever. That is what packaging allows, re-use.

This is the sort of behavior Nix encourages (disclaimer: I work at https://flox.dev , using Nix as our baseline tech). Docker as both a packaging and deployment format can carry a bit of weight, but can quickly get out of hand.

Get a Portable Turn-Key RAG Stack with Verba and Flox

tomberek — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:48:19 +0000

Article URL: https://flox.dev/blog/get-a-portable-turn-key-rag-stack-with-verba-and-flox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41850492

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by tomberek in "Linux from Scratch"

tomberek — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:42:13 +0000

This is excellent. Have you considered making a presentation or a write-up of the experience?

Using Flox to Create Portable, Reproducible Python Environments

tomberek — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:36:00 +0000

Article URL: https://flox.dev/blog/portable-reproducible-python-envs-with-flox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41523357

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Simplified Service Management with Flox

tomberek — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:18:09 +0000

Article URL: https://flox.dev/blog/simplified-service-management-with-flox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41323550

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomberek in "An Introduction to Nix for Ruby Developers"

tomberek — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:10:49 +0000

A similar article for bringing Ruby into the Nix ecosystem: https://flox.dev/blog/flox-and-ruby

ML Modeling with Flaim and Hugging Face Diffusers

tomberek — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:11:41 +0000

Article URL: https://flox.dev/blog/flaim

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40938128

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Flox 1.1: Time Travel Across 100k+ Nix Packages

tomberek — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://flox.dev/blog/flox-1.1-blog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40822014

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomberek in "The plan-execute pattern"

tomberek — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:31:18 +0000

This is an excellent pattern. Nix uses it to allow one to create a full transitive build graph, serialized that plan, move it around, and execute it in a distributed and reproducible fashion.

There are always temptations to loosen the constraints this imposes, but they nearly always come at a cost of undermining the value of the pattern.

Run Containers Easily with Podman and Flox

tomberek — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://flox.dev/blog/podman-remote

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40169778

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Using Jupyter Notebooks with Flox

tomberek — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:46:40 +0000

Article URL: https://flox.dev/blog/jupyter-remote-env

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39980023

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomberek in "Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix"

tomberek — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:47:38 +0000

`flox` needs Nix to function. So the rpm/dev/OSX installers first install Nix, and then installs flox itself.

If you have Nix already, you can try it out as described here: https://flox.dev/docs/install-flox/#install-with-existing-ni....

side-note: with further improvements to Nix as a library, it may be possible to make installing Nix not necessary for flox to function, but this is on a longer time horizon... don't hold your breath

New comment by tomberek in "Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix"

tomberek — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:41:49 +0000

That link in hub.flox.dev is wrong. The link at https://flox.dev/terms-conditions is correct. Fixing.... thanks!

New comment by tomberek in "Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix"

tomberek — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:01:59 +0000

The python ecosystem will require specific support, so at the moment we recommend using `flox` to get all of the other things that might not be managed by an existing Python package manager, and/or to install that package manager itself.

Being a general solution, `flox` cannot directly provide the same level of integration as a python-specific tool, but we CAN make it easier to use those other tools, and bring in others.