NixOS Is Making Me Less Afraid

Something funny happened a little while ago: I read about FreshRSS, and it sounded nice, so I installed it on a server and started using it. That would not have happened a year ago, but then again, a year ago I didn’t have any NixOS servers. For the past few years, my RSS feeds have lived locally on my phone only. There was a good idea behind that, but it never quite worked in practice. For one, many things are easier to read on a larger screen. But it was also brittle to trust a phone app to manage the read/unread status of thousands of articles across a hundred feeds. What I really wanted was a server-side feed aggregator. This is software that runs on a server, manages RSS feeds, and then I can read the RSS feeds either through a web interface, or through client applications. I’ve wanted that for a while, but I’ve never taken the step, because it would be yet another side project to maintain the deployment of. But now, with some NixOS experience, adding a working FreshRSS…