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Matthew Croughan - Use flake.nix, not Dockerfile - MCH2022

Matthew Croughan

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Matthew Croughan argues for replacing Dockerfiles with Nix flakes to achieve reproducible development environments.

A lightning talk I gave at May Contain Hackers 2022, prepared overnight after a beer.

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