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Tony Finn
Personal blog · tonyfinn.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Tony Finn's personal blog at tonyfinn.com covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's Nix series, including a post on learning Nix flakes from first principles, as learning material. One commenter notes the linked post was down at the time.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal blog of a professional developer, covering self-hosting, Nix, Rust and other topics
Most-linked posts?
- Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-09
What Hacker News says?
Here you go: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes https://tonyfinn.com/blog/nix-from-first-principles-flake-ed... The second link appears to be down at the moment so check back later.
Comment linking /blog/nix-from-first-principles-flake-edition/nix-8-flakes-and-developer-environments/
on “Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials”Submitted Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS as a story · 89 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Capturing screenshots with Rust and OpenGL (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion