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What is a derivation?

Learning NixOS Concepts

You can think of a derivation as a set of build instructions, somewhat similar to how IKEA furnit...

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Storing secrets and the Nix store

Learning NixOS Security considerations

Nix stores every derivation that it builds in the Nix store. However, to make sure that everythin...

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What is the Nix store?

Learning NixOS Concepts

The Nix store is a folder, located at /nix/store by default, that contains every build result fro...

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What is Nix?

Learning NixOS Concepts

Nix is a next-generation package and system manager. Many other package managers suffer from dep...

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What is nixpkgs?

Learning NixOS Concepts

You'll often run across the name 'nixpkgs' in this documentation. Nix itself is really just the p...

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What is NixOS?

Learning NixOS Concepts

While Nix can run as a stand-alone package manager on any Linux system, and even on macOS, there'...

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What is NixOps?

Learning NixOS Concepts

Nix (and NixOS) themselves only manage a single machine. If you want to manage multiple machines,...

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What is Hydra?

Learning NixOS Concepts

Hydra is, more or less, a build server. Unsurprisingly, it uses Nix and nixlang for specifying wh...

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Running a Node.js application using nvm as a systemd service

Miscellaneous notes Node.js

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Secure random values

Miscellaneous notes Node.js

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ES Modules are terrible, actually

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Quick reference for `checkit` validators

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Introduction to sessions

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Rendering pages server-side with Express (and Pug)

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Persistent state in Node.js

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A few notes on the "Gathering weak npm credentials" article

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Quill.js glossary

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The Promises FAQ - addressing the most common questions and misconceptions about Promises

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Fixing "Buffer without new" deprecation warnings

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A survey of unhandledRejection and rejectionHandled handlers

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