Howto start a Redis service ad-hoc thanks to nix-shell.

A quick way how to run PostgreSQL in your development environment without any upfront setup work.

My personal collection of Nix related jokes in German. Can't help myself, I still like those ;)

Quick hints on getting your node2nix based environment updated for recent versions of nixpkgs.

Review on using Nix to manage development environments for Python projects.

Upgrading old NixOS machines can lead to a situation where the rebuild fails due to an unknown hash algorithm. This post shows a workaround to get started again.

Channels can play a tricky role when using the Nix package manager to manage development environments. Especially when one want to make sure that a derivation builds against multiple channels. This post shows how to quickly build a derivation against a different channel based on setting a URL into the include path for Nix.

Having a list of all packages available in a simple text file is enough to get a good overview of available packages.

An example Nix snippet which provides the Salesforce migration tool inside of a shell environment based on the Nix package manager.

Allowing to use stable and unstable branches of nixpkgs when depending on fetchgit.