nixcfg

I love nushell. Here's just a small sample: https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/blob/15905d9e42dad17fa... (cleans up finished GH Action runs) If nothing else, never having to use `jq` again is a huge QoL improvement.

Fortunately, `builtins.fetchTarball` makes this easier. I do this in my `nixcfg` repo so that I can build my entire machine config (patches and enabling Iris in Mesa, and all) on a stupidly-cheap Packet.net VM: https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/blob/master/default.ni.... If you follow the rabbit-hole: `default.nix` -> `lib.nix`, etc, you can see that I pin nixpkgs, have an update script that updates the nixpkgs revs I build against, it supports building against a custom, local `~/code/nixpkgs` if it exists, and I have my machine config abstracted out to where I can build a "GNOME instance of my machine" or by default, my machine with Sway and sway related packages installed. Much of this should be easier with flakes, as I understand it. It's not the cleanest config, the README needs love, but maybe it can be inspiration in the meantim

I'm sorry, I tend not to view replies on HN. Here's my repo: https://github.com/colemickens/nixcfg/ Start in {configurations,machines}/chimera.nix and explore outward from there ;). EDIT: I forgot, I decommissioned 'chimera' because computers are terrible. `xeep` is probably a better example of what you're looking for. `azera` is an Azure VM that runs the services `chimera` used to host. Sorry if the repos a bit messy. I don't practice good git hygiene there. Feel free to ping me on the nix IRC rooms or email me. I love NixOS and enjoy evangelizing cool tech.

Do you have a super quick example that you can include in plugs like this? I am doing my own caching directly with Azure storage (though it works anywhere you can enumerate and upload blobs) [1], but I think Cachix and Hercules are a huge potential chance to excite more folks about Nix and NixOS. I'm thinking something like a blog post where someone patches the Linux kernel, does a `nix-build | cachix push` and then show how another naive user might do `cachix use && nix-build` and get a magic no-op build. Maybe just a slightly more fleshed out example under the "What" section of the Cachix homepage. For the non-Nix/NixOS folks, it's an impressive demo, and I suspect even for Nix-folks, it's impressive for hiding all of the signing/upload complexity. For others reading this comment, Nix + Cachix means that no two people on your team shoul