Hooking up with Git

• December 2, 2021
• 10 Minutes
• nix, git, code, github

Git hooks can be useful, tracking and managing them with Nix makes removes the barrier of using them.

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One too many shell

• December 1, 2021
• 20 Minutes
• nix, guide, flakes, newnixshellguide

Nix 2.4+ introduces replacements for commonly known nix commands. The `nix-shell` replacements cause some confusion which this post aims to solve.

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Building with Nix Flakes for, eh .. reasons!

• January 1, 2021
• 26 Minutes
• internal, technical, nix, haskell

Nix Flakes are the long awaited addition coming with the next major release of Nix. What are Flakes, what do they offer, how can you use them now and should you consider migrating?

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Building a reproducible blog with Nix

• April 10, 2020
• 16 Minutes
• internal, technical, nix, haskell

Nix is a purely functional package manager that allows isolated development environments and builds. This blog uses it to provide a development environment and to build the blog in a GitHub Action

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