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nix flakes nixos home-manager hydra (build system) Fun Stuff the biggest hurdle in getting into nix is having the revelvant documentation available. This page is just another collection of useful resources to support success.
nix nix the language
nixhub https://www.nixhub.io/packages/mysql
newer documentation https://nix.dev/
nix-search-cli https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli
nix-pills: Interesting information if you want to know how nix works. A little dated. https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills
nix packge versions - https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/
unstable https://lazamar.
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picman: photo sorting tool
github https://github.com/sigmonsays/picman
I wrote a basic tool to replace my krufty bash scripts that imports my photos from various locations into their final resting place.
The tool operates in steps where each step is kind of idempotent. The set of all steps is called a workflow and operates on a single file. see code.
Each step operates on the same workflow object, which primarily has a state object
State Object code
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nix tip: nvd to see what is going to change
have you ever wanted to see what packages are going to change before updating them on nix?
Well read on to find out how to do this with home-manager and nixos
First, there is a few different ways i came across
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A naive approach nix store diff-closure nvd nix-diff A naive approach I wondered since everything is in the nix store, why not just diff it?
So as an experiment I set off to do just that
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