Is a successor to the make-nix project, and is an attempt to implement a modular, declarative, and reproducible system for deploying infrastructure as code for both my home and work networks.
In 2023 I started experimenting with Nix. I thought I could keep it contained to just some of my side-projects, but I soon lost control. I had heard about Nix before, but no one ever warned me; A little Nix on the side quickly became NixOS on my personal computer. In no time, I found myself up late at nights re-writing my dotfiles, trying to make them more declarative, refactoring my system configuration in a language I can still barely comprehend. But it wasn't enough. I needed more.
At work the hours dragged on while I suffered on Nixless machines. Just the thought of going eight hours without re-writing a configuration file into a declarative module with type-checking made me break into a cold sweat. I needed to find a way to feed my addiction. But there were so many systems out there without Nix, how could I get my fix? How could I continue to experience the un-paralleled high that only comes from gloriously reproducible software?