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Unhashing All the Things: Making Sense of Ethereum Storage Traces
Jan 27, 2026 — Dragan Milic
- Ethereum
- Deep Dive
A deep dive into how Ethereum's keccak256 hashing obscures storage traces, and how the new keccak256PreimageTracer in Geth v1.15.6 can reverse those hashes to reveal meaningful transaction data.
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System Manager 1.0 - Configure your Linux distribution fearlessly
Jan 8, 2026 — Jonas Chevalier
- Nix
- Release
- Open Source
Announcing System Manager 1.0, a tool that brings NixOS-like declarative configuration to non-NixOS Linux distributions like Ubuntu, with packaging and configuration managed entirely in Nix.
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How to use Nix Flakes to Manage C++ Libraries and Header Files
Aug 27, 2025 — Jeffrey Cogswell
- Nix
- Tutorial
- C++
Let’s explore how you configure a nix flake to handle installing C++ developer libraries automatically.
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Case Study: Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) & NixOS
Jun 26, 2025 — Jeffrey Cogswell
- NixOS
- Case Study
How Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) uses NixOS to manage dozens of servers deployed in remote clinics around the world, keeping them updated with minimal connectivity.
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Creating a Nix Cache in an S3 cloud storage
May 12, 2025 — Võ Minh Thu
- Nix
- DevOps
Step-by-step guide to creating a Nix binary cache in S3-compatible cloud storage, covering bucket setup, signing keys, uploading store paths, and pulling them into a fresh environment.
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It takes 68 steps to deploy Odoo with NixOS
Jul 24, 2024 — Jonas Chevalier
- Nix
- DevOps
After spending a few years providing NixOS consulting, and building tooling around it, it's time to take account. How hard is it to go from zero to a deployed application running on NixOS? This article aims to serve as a benchmark for future tooling.
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nix-vm-test: reproducible integration tests
May 22, 2024 — Jonas Chevalier
- Nix
- Testing
- Open Source
We released nix-vm-test, a test framework to quickly spin up a virtual machine and run tests using a single CLI command.
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Nix, Docker - or both?
Dec 24, 2023 — Jill Thornhill
- Nix
- Docker
Nix and Docker both solve the 'it worked on my machine' problem, but in different ways. We compare the two approaches and show how they can complement each other.
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Donating SrvOS to nix-community
Nov 3, 2023 — Jonas Chevalier
- Nix
- Open Source
SrvOS is a collection of opinionated defaults for NixOS, optimized for server environments. Today we are giving this project to nix-community.
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nixos-anywhere 1.0 release
Sep 18, 2023 — Jonas Chevalier
- NixOS
- Release
- Open Source
Today, we’re announcing the release and donation of nixos-anywhere
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We are deep-stack developers.
Aug 21, 2023 — Jonas Chevalier
- Numtide
- Culture
This new term came to mind when I wanted to describe our team and what we work on day-to-day.
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We don't need NixOS cloud images anymore
Jul 6, 2023 — Jill Thornhill
- NixOS
- Tutorial
A simple free tool lets you install NixOS remotely in the cloud - or anywhere else.
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Why Choose Nix for Package Management?
Jun 27, 2023 — Jill Thornhill
- Nix
Time saved with Nix > time spent learning Nix: T or F?
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Introducing NixOS Anywhere
May 10, 2023 — Brian McGee
- NixOS
- Open Source
At Numtide, we deploy NixOS to various infrastructure providers and target platforms daily. This blog post introduces NixOS Anywhere, a tool we built to make our lives easier.
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