News

• One-page Nix expression language overview

Vincent wrote a one-page introduction to Nix language, covering language features you'll most likely encounter from day one.

• Encrypted ZFS mirror with mirrored boot on NixOS

Using the boot.loader.grub.mirroredBoots module to have redundant boots with an encrypted ZFS mirror.

• Serokell is hiring Nix DevOps Engineers

Serokell is looking for remote full-time Nix SREs.

• Yants - Yet Another Nix Type System

Yants is a small runtime type-checker for Nix that can check primitives (int, string, etc.) , simple polymorphic types (option, list, attrs), structs/records, enums, functions and more.

It features pattern matching for enum variants, pretty-printed function types and other niceties! Check out the link for screenshots.

• NixOS RFC Process

Robin goes into the details of RFC process that Nix community established last year.

• Easy IHaskell Docker Images with Nix

Vaibhav shows how to use Nix to package iHaskell into a docker container.

• Mobile NixOS: the Present and the Future

Samuel announced full-time involvement into NixOS mobile and the current state of the project.

• Pre-commit git hooks with Nix

Git hooks, packaged with Nix, enforced at development time and on a CI.

• All the versions with Nix

Matthew explains how to use multiple revisions of nixpkgs to mix stable vs. bleeding edge packages.

• Native support for import-from-derivation

Hercules CI gained a crucial feature for development teams. The post goes into the detail how evaluation and realization phases work in Nix and why sometimes mixing the two makes sense.

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