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I've been using the Nix package manager for some time.<\/p>\n\n
The first commit of a flake.nix file to my nixos-config repository<\/a> (formerly my dotfiles repository) was on the 26th of September 2022.<\/p>\n\n The following month, I started to experiment with NixOS - the operating system built on the Nix language and the package manager.<\/p>\n\n Rarely have I found a package missing within the 120,000+ available, but I have added some missing Vim plugins and some custom packages to my own configuration.<\/p>\n\n But I hadn't tried to contribute any package definitions back to nixpkgs until today.<\/p>\n\n I've submitted my first pull request to nixpkgs<\/a> to add a small script that I've added to my own configuration.<\/p>\n\n It's always nerve-racking contributing to a new projects, but let's see how it goes.<\/p>\n\n I'm thinking of it as a free code review<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n If it goes well, I can see me contributing more packages in the future.<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed": "\n I've been using the Nix package manager for some time.<\/p>\n\n The first commit of a flake.nix file to my nixos-config repository<\/a> (formerly my dotfiles repository) was on the 26th of September 2022.<\/p>\n\n The following month, I started to experiment with NixOS - the operating system built on the Nix language and the package manager.<\/p>\n\n Rarely have I found a package missing within the 120,000+ available, but I have added some missing Vim plugins and some custom packages to my own configuration.<\/p>\n\n But I hadn't tried to contribute any package definitions back to nixpkgs until today.<\/p>\n\n