Jade Lovelace
Jade is a Computer Engineering student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Their usual areas of focus are tooling, compilers, and operating systems.
Jade uses Nix and NixOS extensively, particularly for development environments and Haskell.
Their Web site can be found at https://jade.fyi
Session
Even with recent improvements in documentation, sometimes the most expedient way to understand nixpkgs and NixOS is to read the source code. However, that's not trivial: there are now 2.9 million lines of Nix source in nixpkgs. This talk shows several methods of finding the sources behind things in nixpkgs and NixOS from using ctags to various lesser-known tricks in the repl.
After this talk, getting around in nixpkgs should be familiar and quick.