Shahar "Dawn" Or

I know Nix can feel daunting. There is so much to learn. Between zero Nix and "our goal" of using Nix for possibly so many things that it is useful for, we have to know a good amount of this technology. Here are the most useful resources for you, right off the bat: - nix.dev (https://nix.dev/) - Zero to Nix (https://zero-to-nix.com/) - Nixcademy Blog (https://nixcademy.com/blog) - the wiki (https://wiki.nixos.org/) - the other wiki (https://nixos.wiki/) - the Nix manual (https://nix.dev/reference/nix-manual) - the Nixpkgs manual (https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/) - the NixOS manual (https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/) And, LLMs have been rapidly improving, although they still make things up all the time. So, one can learn Nix without a mentor, as many have done. But if you need to move fast or find good mentorship pleasant and enriching, here's my offer: you pay me for my time and I share with you anything and everything I know during that time. Here are some of the topics we can cover: - NixOS; for PC, for embedded, for bare metal, for cloud - home-manager; "I want the same programs and dotfiles in every $HOME" - Nixvim; the reproducible Neovim experience - Nixpkgs; the largest and the freshest of them all - Nixpkgs lib; and some functional programming - Nixpkgs module system; and why it's everywhere - flakes; the good, the bad and the bugly - flake-parts; "because Robert already wrote that for you" - The dendritic pattern; it's "all the rage" these days - Packaging with Nix once and for all - NixOS tests and how they can change your life - The Nix language, how to write it and how to debug it So go ahead and send me a message. Tell me what you need. I promise to respond.

I'm mostly here to mentor Nix, but I can do some Rust, as well!

Did you read my Nix expertise? I currently have NixOS deployed to 2 desktop PCs, 3 laptop pcs and one cloud server. While I don't claim to be the first one to use it, nor the most significant contributor towards its documentation, I am the one who had formalized the dendritic pattern: https://github.com/mightyiam/dendritic If you are interested in NixOS, I'd be happy to teach you all I know. There's already a lot to learn from my public infra repo, so go ahead; it's free: https://github.com/mightyiam/infra If you wish to dive into any particular NixOS topic or ask me some general questions about it, please send me a message or schedule a session.