# What are interesting, unique, and/or non-standard uses of Nix?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-are-interesting-unique-and-or-non-standard-uses-of-nix/12977
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**Created:** [May 9, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-are-interesting-unique-and-or-non-standard-uses-of-nix/12977 "2021-05-09T11:50:25Z")
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### Author: ![toraritte](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/toraritte/32/6777_2.png) [@toraritte](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/toraritte)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-are-interesting-unique-and-or-non-standard-uses-of-nix/12977/3 "2021-05-09T18:12:19Z")

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Was able to find some of the links I lost:

- [Building a reproducible blog with Nix](https://blog.ysndr.de/posts/internals/2020-04-10-built-with-nix/) (by @ysndr)
- [Complete overkill or exactly right? Deploying a static site using nix](https://blog.ysndr.de/posts/internals/2020-04-10-built-with-nix/) (by @mpickering)
- [nix-freeze-tree: Convert a tree of files into fixed-output derivations](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/nix-freeze-tree) (see [blog post](http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2020/01/25/nix-freeze-tree/index.html) also)
- [Reproducible résumés](https://matthewbauer.us/blog/resume.html) (by @matthewbauer)

Update (7/18/2023):

- The [repo responsible for generating the HTML for the NixOS webzine](https://tildegit.org/solene/nixos-webzine). ([announcement](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-webzine-announcement/23676))

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