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  • I do this on NixOS. I have a NAS at home where I store most of the files I work on. My computers are internally immutable and almost all the files that change reside solely on the NAS as NFS shares. All of my computers are configured to auto-mount one of its folders at boot. NixOS sees that as an internal drive.
    Then, simply navigate to the project folder where I have a flake and a .envrc file containing the command use flake .which will make direnv use Nix to provision the dependencies automatically. Whenever I save, those changes are reflected on all computers.

    I like to also version control everything using git and this method allows that transparently.

    The only part that I am missing is getting the permissions to align between all computers accessing that same folder. Sometimes I have to create a temp folder that uses rsync to keep up with any changes. If anyone has any pointers, I’m all ears. It rarely gets in my way but does rear its head sometimes. Otherwise, this setup is perfect when I’m at home.














  • This is why I decided to learn Nix. I built dev environment flakes that provision the devshell for any language I intend to use. I actually won’t even bother unless I can get something working reliably with Nix. ;)

    For example, here’s a flake that I use for my Python dev environment to provide all needed wiring and setup for an interactive Python web scraper I built:

    
    {
      description = "Interactive Web Scraper";
    
      inputs = {
        nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs?ref=nixpkgs-unstable";
        utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
      };
    
      outputs = { self, nixpkgs, utils }: utils.lib.eachSystem ["x86_64-linux"] (system: let
        pkgs = import nixpkgs { system = system; };
      in rec {
        packages = {
          pyinputplus = pkgs.python3Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
            pname = "pyinputplus";
            version = "0.2.12";
            src = pkgs.fetchPypi {
              inherit pname version;
              sha256 = "sha256-YOUR_SHA256_HASH_HERE";
            };
          };
    
          pythonEnv =
            pkgs.python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ webdriver-manager openpyxl pandas requests beautifulsoup4 websocket-client selenium packages.pyinputplus ]);
        };
    
        devShell = pkgs.mkShell {
          buildInputs = [
            pkgs.chromium
            pkgs.undetected-chromedriver
            packages.pythonEnv
          ];
    
          shellHook = ''
            export PATH=${pkgs.chromium}/bin:${pkgs.undetected-chromedriver}/bin:$PATH
          '';
        };
      });
    }