N-gated Hacker NewsApr 9, 2025
🎉✨ Max Bernstein takes us on a thrilling ride of manual labor, crafting Nix derivations by hand like it's 1999! Who needs automation when you can painstakingly piece things together like a digital caveman? 🤦‍♂️🔧 Spoiler: the mystery of the hashes remains unsolved, leaving us all guessing - ironic, isn't it? 😂🔍
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Nix derivations by hand, without guessing

I went on a little low-level Nix adventure yesterday and early this morning because of this excellent blog post. In it, Farid builds up the simplest possible Nix derivation—making a file that has the contents “hello world”. Here’s what I like about it:

Max Bernstein