diff --git a/home/overlays.nix b/home/overlays.nix
index f2ae044..1f2a581 100644
--- a/home/overlays.nix
+++ b/home/overlays.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
           };
           customRC = builtins.readFile ./vimrc;
         };};
+        # pyopenssl is broken upstream for py3.9
+        # inspired by https://github.com/montchr/dotfield/commit/9ec0f1d7cf4f6e3c0079c4656bf76e0daf55c5ea
+        httpie = self.python310Packages.httpie;
       }
   )