I mainly nix-ified my blog build to make a docker image that is as small as possible.

Compare my super-optimised dockerfile results:

$ docker images | grep xena xena/christinewebsite latest eb8c27a1a5d2 12 seconds ago 121MB

To the naiive nix results:

$ docker images | grep xena xena/christinewebsite latest b087ad7fb924 50 years ago 102MB

This image ends up only including my blog (statically compiled), ca certificates (because of the patreon integration), time zone data files (because of the go time package), iana port numbers (something to do with the go net package) and mailcap (for some reason). It's puny!