tl;dr Try it at https://trynix.dev. Click hello, or python 3.6.2 from 2017, or two eras of hello at once, or a package that exists in no public cache. A Linux machine boots in the tab and you get a shell with those Nix packages on PATH.
trynix — boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser
Pick any package from 13 years of nixpkgs history and boot it in an x86_64 Linux VM in your tab. No server anywhere.
nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon
Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka]
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of
For some reason, during TacoSprint 2026 I decided to see if we could tackle relocatable binaries in Nix.
Please Stop Using `nixos-rebuild switch`
Better practices for safely and reliably deploying and updating NixOS systems.
I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? | natkr's ramblings
In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.
I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus | Bas Nijholt
After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.
Forking is Cool, or: A Unix Shell in Zig, or: Dave Learns How to Fork - ratfactor
In this article, I make a real, working interactive shell written in Zig. Though essentially a toy, it demonstrates the incredible elegance of the fork() system call and is an example of what can be done with absolutely no runtime memory allocations.
Dancing mad with sandboxing
Kefka is a Go-native shell sandbox with coreutils, Python via WebAssembly, and more. Learn the works of madness that went into making this happen!
Tracking NixOS option values and dependencies | oddlama's blog
oddlama's personal web page and blog
arnoldrobbins/LinuxByExample-2e
Contribute to arnoldrobbins/LinuxByExample-2e development by creating an account on GitHub.
Ratatui
Ratatui: Cook up delicious terminal user interfaces in Rust - the fast and lightweight TUI library trusted by developers
Learn Go by Building a Command Line Todo App | Barbarian Meets Coding
Learn the Go programming language by building a test-driven command line todo application
marimo | a next-generation Python notebook
Explore data and build apps seamlessly with marimo, a next-generation Python notebook.
