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Flickzeug – or why patching source code is hard
TL;DR - we have extended the Rust crate diffy to be able to patch real-world source code with real-world patches, which is surprisingly hard! In the process we renamed it to flickzeug.
Wolf Vollprecht
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Seeking Reproducible Research Software: How the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center Adopted Pixi
At the University of Washington Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC), our mission is to enhance our partners software development capabilities to bolster their research. In scientific research, reproducibility is the gold standard. The ability for another researcher to take your code, data, and environment to arrive at the exact same results is essential.
Anshul Tambay
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Introducing Pixi GUI
Hi, I’m Felix. I’m excited to share what I’ve been building over the past few months! Since last year I work as a working student at prefix.dev. As part of my bachelor's thesis, I designed and implemented a graphical user interface for the package manager Pixi, named Pixi GUI.
Felix Häcker
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Publishing Conda Packages on Amazon S3
We worked together with AWS Deadline Cloud to improve S3 support in our tools! Pixi and rattler-build now seamlessly authenticate using default credentials on your system, making it simple to upload, download and index packages on S3 buckets.
Wolf Vollprecht
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Building your own build backend for Pixi
Normally, development tooling and package publishing live in separate worlds: you use one workflow to build and test your software locally, and a completely different one to publish it. Wouldn't it be great to use the same manifest that describes your project environment to also define how the package is built, versioned, and released?
Valentin Kharin
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ESOC Report: Implementing Pixi Extensions
Hey there! I'm Swastik. I completed a 3-month internship at prefix.dev under the ESoC'25 (European Summer of Code) program, and this blog is all about my internship experience.
Swastik Patel
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Pixi: Modern package management for Robotics
Developing Robots is hard; Pixi makes it easier by creating reproducible, cross-platform ROS development environments without Docker or Ubuntu lock-in.
Ruben Arts
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Cross compiling in the Conda ecosystem
Cross compiling is a fundamental capability in modern software development, allowing developers to build packages for different architectures without needing access to the target hardware.
Wolf Vollprecht
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Introducing a New Identity for Prefix.dev
Since 2021 we've used the same identity and the website was mostly consistent, today we are transitioning to a new identity.
Tim de Jager
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Using Pixi as a System Package Manager with Shortcuts and Completions
Pixi Global can be used for much more than just downloading and exposing CLI tools. In this blog post, we demonstrate two capabilities of pixi global which are core to making it a featureful and powerful system package manager: shortcuts, and (auto-)completions.
Lucas Colley
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Mutex packages in the Conda Ecosystem
Mutex packages are a useful mechanism to guide the solver towards certain dependencies, mutually excluding other dependency trees.
Wolf Vollprecht