https://jacobcolvin.com/categories/nix/Jacob Colvin is a Lead Software Engineer working on developer platforms and infrastructure, writing about Kubernetes, observability, and open source.Hugoen-usme@jacobcolvin.com (Jacob Colvin)me@jacobcolvin.com (Jacob Colvin)CC BY-NC 4.0Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jacobcolvin.com/posts/2026/11/nix-everything/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000me@jacobcolvin.com (Jacob Colvin)https://jacobcolvin.com/posts/2026/11/nix-everything/<p>I think <a href="https://nixos.org/">Nix</a> is the future of machine configuration.</p> <p>Nix has been around for a long time now. And up until recently, my impression was that it was <em>exclusively</em> for the uber nerds, sitting somewhere between Arch Linux and TempleOS. The benefits of Nix have always been hard to ignore, but it required a time investment I was not willing to make. Generally I&rsquo;ve seen this same sentiment among my peers.</p>