diff --git a/.envrc b/.envrc
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+++ b/.envrc
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+use flake
diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
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+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-utils": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1656928814,
+        "narHash": "sha256-RIFfgBuKz6Hp89yRr7+NR5tzIAbn52h8vT6vXkYjZoM=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "7e2a3b3dfd9af950a856d66b0a7d01e3c18aa249",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1653936696,
+        "narHash": "sha256-M6bJShji9AIDZ7Kh7CPwPBPb/T7RiVev2PAcOi4fxDQ=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "ce6aa13369b667ac2542593170993504932eb836",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "22.05",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
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+{
+  description = "weewx environment";
+  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/22.05";
+  inputs.flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+
+  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils }:
+    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
+      let
+        pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
+      in
+      {
+        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+          packages = with pkgs; [
+            python310
+          ];
+        };
+      });
+}