Reproducible
Thoughts.

How maven.buildMavenPackage works in nixpkgs, and a tour through its recent improvements: readable FOD logs, fixed-point evaluation with finalAttrs and finalPackage, and a maven_4 hook.

A follow-up to my post on Gradle's rich console on Nix: a small patchelf script in my nix configuration that repairs the native library cache whenever the Gradle wrapper breaks rich console.

How to get syntax highlighting for MDX files working in Neovim using NixVim.

JetBrains reshuffled the whole kotlin-lsp distribution into the IntelliJ platform bundle. Here is what it took to keep the Nix derivation working.

How my NixOS configuration grew from a single configuration.nix into a multi-machine flake - one tool at a time, and why I adopted each one when I did.

A set of best practices for setting up and maintaining Gradle dependency verification, distilled from real-world experience at GradleX and a few additional lessons learned along the way.

A walk through the two upstream design choices that combine to silently disable Gradle's rich console auto-detection on Nix: a native-platform cache that doesn't notice patched libraries, and a JDK that can't see /lib64. With the upstream fixes that would address both.

Planning a migration of my NixOS flake configuration to the dendritic pattern: what it is, why I want it, and the pitfalls I found before writing a single line of code.

I prefix every code review comment with one of five emojis to signal what response I expect from the author. Here is the convention.