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Treating hair lice in difficult hair
Theory Hair lice are a relatively innocent parasite that lives in human head hair. Although they...
Example project: Scraping XML sitemaps
The code in this guide scrapes an artificial sitemap for a non-existent site, that was created sp...
How do I use Promistreams?
Here's a simple example of a valid Promistream pipeline: "use strict"; const pipe = require("...
What to expect from the Promistreams beta phase
Promistreams are currently in their beta testing phase. What this means in practice: You can s...
Transitive dependencies and the commons
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How to de-escalate situations
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The high-level workflow of Nix
You can use Nix to build many different things for many different purposes. However, the basic wo...
Installing software globally
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Frequently Asked Questions
General Are there any downsides? Yes. Here are some of the most common issues that people run i...
Running an AppImage
If you try to run an AppImage with the usual ./application-name invocation, you'll find that they...
Introduction
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What is the Nix store?
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Storing secrets and the Nix store
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What is a derivation?
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Introduction to Morph
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What is Hydra?
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What is NixOps?
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What is NixOS?
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What is nixpkgs?
You'll often run across the name 'nixpkgs' in this documentation. Nix itself is really just the p...
What is Nix?
Nix is a next-generation package and system manager. Many other package managers suffer from dep...