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the good stuff was historically hard to discover. so hard that I found a new one just today... - add Nixology - remove the Nix Fundamentals, because it's better covered by Nixology - add The Nix Hour - add NixCon - collapse Jon Ringer's videos into one link - link to all of Wil Taylor's videos - re-order the "other" articles to roughly match nix.dev contents
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Further reading
Nix language tutorials
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Nix language one-pager reference (Vincent Ambo, 2019-2021)
Overview of common language features and widely used idioms.
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A tour of Nix (Joachim Schiele, 2015-2022)
Interactive exercises with the Nix language.
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Video: Nix language overview (Wil Taylor, 2021)
Overview of language features.
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Video: Reading the Nix language (Jonas Chevalier, 2019)
Introduction to reading Nix language code.
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Video: How and Why it Works (Graham Christensen, 2019)
Introduction to writing derivations.
Other articles
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A low-level tutorial on building software packages with Nix, showing in detail how Nixpkgs is constructed.
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Customizing packages in Nix (2022)
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Manage your dot files with Home Manager (Mattia Gheda, 2021)
An overview of different methods to customize Nix packages.
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A series of posts on basics of how packaging with Nix works.
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NixOS and Flakes - An unofficial book for beginners (2023)
This tutorial is an introduction to {term}
NixOSusing the experimental Nix Flakes functionality.
Other videos
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Nixology (Burke Libbey, 2020)
Video series introducing fundamental Nix concepts.
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The Nix Hour (Silvan Mosberger, since 2022)
Weekly series exploring topics and answering questions from all around the Nix ecosystem.
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Nixpkgs (Jon Ringer, 2020-22)
Video series with tutorials on various activities around Nixpkgs.
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NixOS (Wil Taylor, 2021)
Series of tutorials on getting started with NixOS.
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The official NixOS Foundation channel.
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Recordings of NixCon talks and discussions.