A while back I updated the instructions to install NixOS on Linode on the NixOS Wiki. This post adds to this to include encrypted partitions. It's based on those wiki instructions and my previous post on installing NixOS to an encrypted drive. Some points to keep in mind when running a Linode with an encrypted drive are: more →
Now that I've got NixOS installed I needed a way to build and make changes to Firefox and Firefox OS. This post goes through the approach I've taken to work on the Firefox codebase. In a later post I'll build on this to do Firefox OS development. Building Firefox isn't difficult as NixOS has definitions for standard Firefox builds to... more →