Super Mario Derivations

(author) -- fun to see this here. I wrote this on the way (on the airplane) to DEFCON34 and Nix Vegas[1] I didn't even get a chance to cruise around and see anything of DEFCON proper since the Nix community had me captive the whole time!

I gave 3 talks that I will update on my site[2] once they released.

[1]: https://nix.vegas [2]: https://fzakaria.com/talks

Wow, what fun!

On a more boring note... I could imagine using this pattern for documentation screenshots. It would be a neat sanity check during PR reviews to show whichever screenshots were changed by that PR in context with their surrounding docs.

Maybe they're meaningful, intended, changes which could be useful context for a reviewer. Maybe they're broken, indicating not only that you now need a different derivation to get the desired screenshot, but also that your prose probably needs to change (since the path to get from start to the screenshot has now also changed).

What a delightfully insane abuse of Nix. I enjoyed reading that immensely.

I think this was a good starting point, excited to see how this grows

Some of us use nix as a package manager. And others...

Im confused whats the point of this ?