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Writing your own Nix Flake checks | Harsh Shandilya
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Customize Caddy's plugins with Nix
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| | Caddy, a web server written in Go, supports compile-time plugin extensions. This article explains how to add plugins using Nix and xcaddy.
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Rust Environment and Docker Build with Nix Flakes | John's Codes
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| | Reproducible dev environments and builds with Nix
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What about flakes then? (Nix From First Principles: Flake Edition #7) - Tony Finn
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| | Flakes are a mechanism for describing a collection of Nix resources, and are central to much of the new improved interfaces added to Nix in recent years. This post outlines their benefits and creation of a couple of example flakes.
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NixOS on a Raspberry Pi: creating a custom SD image with OpenSSH out of the box | Roberto Frenna
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| NixOS has a great out-of-the-box support for ARM64v8 systems, but that comes with a catch: you have to use the prebuilt images to install the system, which are (obviously) not customizable, and come without OpenSSH enabled by default. Unfortunately, this requires to attach a display to the Raspberry Pi to complete an installation - not ideal! This article is the story of my journey to build a custom NixOS image for my Raspberry Pi, with all the pitfalls and errors I had to solve to eventually reach the o...