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A bunch of links to blog posts, articles, videos, etc for learning Nix
nix-learning
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- Nix Fundamentals (Video)
- A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer - Stéphan Kochen
- What Is Nix
- Getting Started With Nix: Introduction -
Nasir Hussain - Lightning Introduction to Nix for
Developers - Robin Schroer - Nix(OS) Thoughts -
? - On-demand linked libraries for Nix -
Farid Zakaria - What Is Nix and Why You Should Use It -
? - NixOS on prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix - Peter
Bhat Harkins - Towards a content-addressed model for
Nix - Théophane Hufschmitt - The easiest way (I've found) to create your own Nix
channel - Luc Perkins - Debugging a dynamic linking bug in a Nix
project - Jack
Coughlin - adhoc executable patching on nixos -
? - Strategies for Binary Relocation In Functional Build
Systems - Max
McDonnell - How I Start: Nix -
Christine Dodrill - I was Wrong about Nix -
Christine Dodrill - Purely Functional Configuration Management with Nix and
NixOS -
Eelco Dolstra - Basic Use-Cases of the Nix Package
Manager - Brandon
Gottlob - Development with Nix: Python -
Thomaz Leite - Dapp tools and the Nix package manager -
Mikael Brockman - NixOS and Stateless Deployment -
? - Encrypted Secrets with NixOS -
Christine Dodrill - Purely Functional Linux with NixOS -
Joe Nelson - Nix + Bazel = fully reproducible, incremental
builds - Mathieu Boespflug,
Théophane Hufschmitt - Reflections On NixOS -
Ian Denhardt - Hardening Compiler Flags for NixOS -
Franz Pletz - Your home in Nix (dotfile management) -
Hugo Reeves - My NixOS Desktop Flow -
Christine Dodrill - Tailscale on NixOS: A new Minecraft server in ten
minutes - Christine Dodrill - Setting up a git server on NixOS -
Terin Stock - NixOS: For developers -
Martin Myrseth - NixOS: Into the deep end -
Martin Myrseth - A Tutorial Introduction to Nix -
Rohit Goswami - Benchmarking nixpkgs builds - Jonas
Chevalier - Recursive Nix experiment -
Jonas Chevalier - Deploying Kubernetes apps with KubeNix -
Jonas Chevalier - Nix - A One Pager - Vincent Ambo
- Moving into NixOS -
Gabriel Arazas - NixOS: the good, the bad, and the ugly -
William G Hatch - Nix: A Reproducible Setup for Linux and
macOS -
Nicolas Mattia - Easy Peasy Nix Versions -
Nicolas Mattia - Recovering Nix derivation attributes of runtime
dependencies -
Nicolas Mattia
- Nix By Example - Susan
Potter - NixOps By Example -
Susan Potter - NixOS By Example -
Susan Potter - Inspecting Nix lambda function named
arguments -
Susan Potter
Overview
Nix the language
- A tour of Nix - an introduction to the Nix
Programming Language
Nix Shell
- An introduction to nix-shell -
Mattia Gheda - caching your nix-shell -
Farid Zakaria
Nix Flakes
- Building with Nix Flakes for, eh ..
reasons! -
Yannik Sander - Nix Flakes edition - Jonas Chevalier
Experience
- Eight Months of NixOS - ash
- Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit -
Ruud van Asseldonk, Reinier Maas, Falco Peijnenburg, Fabian Thorand, and
Robert Kreuzer
Language Specific
Java
Elixir
- Using Nix in Elixir projects -
Jean-Philippe
C++
- Setting up a C++ project environment with
nix - Jacek
Galowicz
Rust
Series
-
Nix by Example - James Fisher
-
Ian Henry's How to Learn Nix series
- Part 1: What's all this about?
- Part 2: Prior knowledge
- Part 3: What we talk about when we talk about
Nix - Part 4: Quick starts, full hearts
- Part 5: Basic package management
- Part 6: Profiles
- Part 7: Garbage collection
- Part 8: Channels
- Part 9: Learning to share
- Part 10: My first derivation
- Part 11: Okay my actual first
derivation - Part 12: The Nix expression language
- Part 13: Derivations
- Part 14: Built-in Functions
- Part 15: Advanced Topics
- Part 16: Command Reference
- Part 17: Configuration
- Part 18: So I read the manual huh
- Part 19: Switching from Homebrew to Nix
- Part 20: My first Nix bug
- Part 21: My first package upgrade
- Part 22: Setting up a declarative user
environment - Part 23: How to learn Nixpkgs
- Part 24: Overlays
- Part 25: Overriding
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Created April 8, 2021
Updated January 26, 2026