nix

I used Nix flakes to customize the version of Hugo for a development shell. I didn’t realize I was going to have to override Nix’s built-in buildGoModule function.

Exploring Nix is intimidating for a newcomer. It’s a language, an ecosystem, a platform, and a philosophy, but it’s also kind of fractured between classic Nix and Nix flakes. Here’s my short account of using nix-shell and nix shell to create a development environment to build this blog.

There has to be a better way to manage the state of a computer, right? Is NixOS it? I don’t know yet, but it can’t be any worse than what I’m doing now, right?