Nix hacking session recording

Hi everyone,

I was hacking with @Radvendii the other week on a Nix issue (Make the flake options work when using the daemon by thufschmitt · Pull Request #5504 · NixOS/nix · GitHub), and we decided to record and publish it as it provided a nice dive into a mostly unknown part of Nix. So if you’re interested in discovering (some of) the dirty internals of Nix, you can check it out right here:

(this is an unedited recording of an unprepared pairing session, so don’t expect anything polished or whatever. Just embrace the wilderness of some proper messy programming work)

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