{
  description = "Emile's Nix Dotfiles";

  inputs = {
    #nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-24.05";
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

    home-manager = {
      url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

    spicetify-nix = {
      url = "github:Gerg-L/spicetify-nix";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

    nixcord.url = "github:kaylorben/nixcord";

    grub2-themes.url = "github:vinceliuice/grub2-themes";

    # is this necessary? (aren't I enabling it in `configuration.nix` anyways?)
    hyprland.url = "github:hyprwm/Hyprland";

    swww.url = "github:LGFae/swww";

    # TODO: declarative flatpak management
    nix-flatpak.url = "github:gmodena/nix-flatpak/?ref=v0.4.1";

    ags.url = "github:Aylur/ags";

    hyprpanel.url = "github:Jas-SinghFSU/HyprPanel";
  };

  outputs = {
    self,
    nixpkgs,
    home-manager,
    hyprland,
    grub2-themes,
    nixcord,
    ...
  } @ inputs: let
    system = "x86_64-linux";

    pkgs = import nixpkgs {
      inherit system;

      config = {
        allowUnfree = true;
        # Colmena's latest stable version is
        # unusable so get latest unstable version.
        #packageOverrides = pkgsBuild: let
        #  src = pkgsBuild.fetchFromGitHub {
        #    owner = "zhaofengli";
        #    repo = "colmena";
        #    rev = "47b6414d800c8471e98ca072bc0835345741a56a";
        #    sha256 = "rINodqeUuezuCWOnpJgrH7u9vJ86fYT+Dj8Mu8T/IBc=";
        #  };:cl
        #  #flake = import (src + "/flake.nix");
        #in {
        #  colmena = let
        #    flake = pkgsBuild.callPackage "${src}/flake.nix" {};
        #    #flake = import "${src}/package.nix";
        #    #flake = import "${src}/flake.nix";
        #    #flake-outputs = flake.outputs {
        #    #  inherit self;
        #    #  inherit nixpkgs;
        #    #  inherit stable;
        #    #  inherit flake-utils;
        #    #
        #    #};
        #  in
        #    flake;
        #  #flake.outputs.packages."${system}".colmena {};
        #
        #  #pkgsBuild.callPackage flake.packages.${system}.colmena {};
        #  #colmena = flake.packages."${system}".colmena;
        #};
      };
    };

    # colmena-new = pkgs.colmena.overrideAttrs (old: {
    #   src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    #     owner = "zhaofengli";
    #     repo = "colmena";
    #     rev = "47b6414d800c8471e98ca072bc0835345741a56a";
    #     sha256 = "rINodqeUuezuCWOnpJgrH7u9vJ86fYT+Dj8Mu8T/IBc=";
    #   };
    #   cargoHash = pkgs.lib.fakeHash;
    #   cargoSha256 = pkgs.lib.fakeSha256;
    # });

    #pkgsColmena = import (builtins.fetchGit {
    #  name = "nixpkgs-unstable-colmena";
    #  url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/";
    #  ref = "refs/heads/nixpkgs-unstable";
    #  rev = "21808d22b1cda1898b71cf1a1beb524a97add2c4";
    #}) {};

    #pkgsColmena = import (builtins.fetchTarball {
    #  url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/21808d22b1cda1898b71cf1a1beb524a97add2c4.tar.gz";
    #  sha256 = "0v2z6jphhbk1ik7fqhlfnihcyff5np9wb3pv19j9qb9mpildx0cg";
    #}) {inherit system;};

    # TODO: come back to this its really cool
    # this is just something I'm experimenting with
    PROJECT_ROOT = builtins.toString ./.;
  in {
    # `nix develop` shell
    devShells."x86_64-linux".default = pkgs.mkShell {
      buildInputs = [
        #colmena-new
      ];
    };

    nixosConfigurations = {
      # i be on my puter fr
      myputer = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
        # nix passes these to every single module
        specialArgs = {inherit inputs pkgs;};

        modules = [
          ./hosts/myputer
          grub2-themes.nixosModules.default
        ];
      };

      # my laptop 0w0
      lolcathost = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
        specialArgs = {inherit inputs pkgs;};

        modules = [
          ./hosts/lolcathost
          grub2-themes.nixosModules.default
        ];
      };

      # meine vps
      #imbored = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      #  specialargs = {inherit inputs pkgs;};
      #
      #  modules = [
      #    ./hosts/imbored
      #  ];
      #};
    };

    # remote deployment to my servers!!
    colmena = {
      meta = {
        # set nixpkgs global
        nixpkgs = pkgs;
        # set nixpkgs per server
        # nodeNixpkgs = {
        #   hyrule = pkgs;
        # };
      };

      # meine vps
      hyrule = import ./hosts/hyrule;
    };
  };
}