https://sadfrogblog.com/tags/nix/Recent content in Nix on Sad Frog BlogHugoen-usTue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://sadfrogblog.com/nix/Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://sadfrogblog.com/nix/<p><a href="https://nixos.org/" rel="noopener">Nix</a> is a build tool, language, package manager, and operating system to reproducibly declare how software should be built.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s bizarre.</p> <p>The language itself feels like the spirit of a Haskell derivative, bound to the body of the unholy spawn of JSON and YAML. Lazy evaluation, pure functions, all that jazz, but the top level return type is almost always an attribute set used by another bit of code to create <a href="#what-is-a-derivation">derivations</a>.</p>https://sadfrogblog.com/this_blog_is_over_engineered/Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://sadfrogblog.com/this_blog_is_over_engineered/<p>I didn&rsquo;t really decide to start up a blog.</p> <p>About a year ago I bought a domain and put up some static pages and never touched it again. The whole idea of sharing what I&rsquo;m thinking and doing made me nervous, so I just stopped.</p> <p>But recently I stumbled on the <a href="https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/" rel="noopener">Quartz</a> static site generator. I&rsquo;ve always been kind of enamored with fun knowledge webs and so this seemed perfect. I looked at the <a href="https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/#-get-started" rel="noopener">installation instructions</a> and thought &ldquo;fork to install? Retro.&rdquo;</p>