I like to use NixOS on my servers, it makes dealing with upgrades easy and provides a good deal of stability. The declarative configuration is a game changer - I can rebuild my server setup anywhere with minimal hassle.

I’ve recently purchased a Hetzner EX44 dedicated server, and despite a good number of blog or wiki articles about how to deploy NixOS on baremetal at Hetzner, I did not find one that worked out of the box for this specific model. So here is a quick recap of how I’ve managed to configure the server.

I’ve been heavily using claude-code since its release and have found it to be one of the most powerful LLM-assisted coding tools on the market today.

There was just one problem: it’s not available on NixOS which my home computer is running on. I decided to package it myself.

Fortunately, the packaging process turned out to be relatively straightforward, though with a few interesting challenges. Since claude-code isn’t open-source, we need to work with the npm-hosted version.

I’m documenting my packaging approach below to help fellow NixOS users who want to use this tool.