"value":"\n <p>Yesterday I explained that Nix, or specifically NixOS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/daily\/2024\/11\/27\/nix-as-an-operating-system\">can be used to manage your entire operating system<\/a> in a declarative and reproducible way.<\/p>\n\n<p>My initial experience was running it on my laptop as a replacement for another Linux distribution, which I use to configure everything about my laptop and development environment, including my i3 window manager, Neovim and tmux configurations.<\/p>\n\n<p>I recently also started to use it on a new VPS to host several static websites, including this one and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/blog\/uis-ive-rebuilt-tailwind-css\">various examples I've created as demos<\/a> or for presentations.<\/p>\n\n<p>Similarly to my laptop, I was able to declaratively install any required utilities, enable the Nginx web server, open firewall ports, add my virtual hosts and create and apply the required SSL certificates.<\/p>\n\n<p>And I can do this locally using <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opdavies\/dotfiles\/tree\/ec2767adfb6667184f884080a4f9b5d2a388a03d\/nix\/hosts\/hetznix\">the same NixOS configuration files<\/a> and applying it to the remote server.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now I'm running NixOS everywhere!<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed":"\n <p>Yesterday I explained that Nix, or specifically NixOS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/daily\/2024\/11\/27\/nix-as-an-operating-system\">can be used to manage your entire operating system<\/a> in a declarative and reproducible way.<\/p>\n\n<p>My initial experience was running it on my laptop as a replacement for another Linux distribution, which I use to configure everything about my laptop and development environment, including my i3 window manager, Neovim and tmux configurations.<\/p>\n\n<p>I recently also started to use it on a new VPS to host several static websites, including this one and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/blog\/uis-ive-rebuilt-tailwind-css\">various examples I've created as demos<\/a> or for presentations.<\/p>\n\n<p>Similarly to my laptop, I was able to declaratively install any required utilities, enable the Nginx web server, open firewall ports, add my virtual hosts and create and apply the required SSL certificates.<\/p>\n\n<p>And I can do this locally using <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opdavies\/dotfiles\/tree\/ec2767adfb6667184f884080a4f9b5d2a388a03d\/nix\/hosts\/hetznix\">the same NixOS configuration files<\/a> and applying it to the remote server.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now I'm running NixOS everywhere!<\/p>\n\n ",