
CommunityNews
MacOS Nix Setup (an alternative to Homebrew)
MacOS Nix Setup (an alternative to Homebrew).
I recently got a new Macbook, and began setting up the Nix package manager to install my developer toolset. I mainly did this to try and have a working setup without installing Homebrew. Since I ran into a few issues, I wanted to briefly document what I did and why in case others wanted to try the same.
Why Nix? (and why not Homebrew or MacPorts?) The short answer: hype.
This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our automated news source trackers.
Popular Macos topics

What was it? What language did you use? How did you find the experience?
New

Hackers jailbreak Apple’s T2 security chip powered by bridgeOS - Report Cyber Crime.
The Apple T2 security chip has finally been jailbro...
New

Hi there!
I am a new iMac user (this is the first Apple’s product for me), and I am wondering should I update the mac OS system to the n...
New

New

Hi there!
I recently bought a new mouse pad (HyperX Fury) and it feels like without mouse pad the magic mouse is working better(smoother...
New

I think we need a macOS rants thread - just for those little things that bug us :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:
Feel free to start dedica...
New

macOS Monterey Preview.
macOS Monterey. Connect like never before. Exciting FaceTime updates. An all-new Safari. Powerful new ways to wo...
New

New

Just looking through my settings and noticed that Help Apple Improve Search was checked - yet I am almost certain that I did not opt-in t...
New

Here are some easy options on how to run Stable Diffusion on a Mac with Apple Silicon:
DiffusionBee
The Ultimate Suite of Creative AI ...
New
Other popular topics

@AstonJ prompted me to open this topic after I mentioned in the lockdown thread how I started to do a lot more for my fitness.
https://f...
New

I’ve been really enjoying obsidian.md:
It is very snappy (even though it is based on Electron). I love that it is all local by defaul...
New

Thanks to @foxtrottwist’s and @Tomas’s posts in this thread: Poll: Which code editor do you use? I bought Onivim! :nerd_face:
https://on...
New

I ended up cancelling my Moonlander order as I think it’s just going to be a bit too bulky for me.
I think the Planck and the Preonic (o...
New

Hello content creators! Happy new year. What tech topics do you think will be the focus of 2021? My vote for one topic is ethics in tech...
New

Small essay with thoughts on macOS vs. Linux:
I know @Exadra37 is just waiting around the corner to scream at me “I TOLD YOU SO!!!” but I...
New

Continuing the discussion from Thinking about learning Crystal, let’s discuss - I was wondering which languages don’t GC - maybe we can c...
New

Author Spotlight
Jamis Buck
@jamis
This month, we have the pleasure of spotlighting author Jamis Buck, who has written Mazes for Prog...
New

Author Spotlight
Rebecca Skinner
@RebeccaSkinner
Welcome to our latest author spotlight, where we sit down with Rebecca Skinner, auth...
New

If you want a quick and easy way to block any website on your Mac using Little Snitch simply…
File > New Rule:
And select Deny, O...
New
Categories:
Sub Categories:
Popular Portals
- /elixir
- /rust
- /wasm
- /ruby
- /erlang
- /phoenix
- /keyboards
- /rails
- /js
- /python
- /security
- /go
- /swift
- /vim
- /clojure
- /java
- /haskell
- /emacs
- /svelte
- /onivim
- /typescript
- /crystal
- /c-plus-plus
- /tailwind
- /kotlin
- /gleam
- /react
- /flutter
- /elm
- /ocaml
- /ash
- /vscode
- /opensuse
- /centos
- /php
- /deepseek
- /scala
- /zig
- /html
- /debian
- /nixos
- /lisp
- /agda
- /sublime-text
- /textmate
- /react-native
- /kubuntu
- /arch-linux
- /ubuntu
- /revery
- /django
- /manjaro
- /spring
- /diversity
- /lua
- /nodejs
- /c
- /julia
- /slackware
- /neovim