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 # tritonshell
-### a nix devshell for triton
+### a nix dev & ops shell for [triton](https://www.joyent.com/triton/compute) and [manta](https://www.joyent.com/triton/object-storage)
 
-0. If you're already on NixOS jump to 2.
-1. [Install nix](https://nixos.org/download.html)
 
-    1. Now, make sure you're ready to nix with flakes, this should give you some output:
+0. If you're already on NixOS and have worked with `flakes` before, jump to 2.
+1. [Install nix, the package manager](https://nixos.org/download.html)
+
+    1. Now, make sure you're ready to `nix` with flakes, this should give you some output:
     ```
     nix flake --help
     ```
     2. Otherwise, proceed to enable flakes (still an experimental feature in `nix`):
        https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes#Installing_flakes
 
+
 2. Get this nix flake template, it will be setup in a new directory `./tritonshell` (feel free to adjust this):
 ```
 nix flake new --template "git+https://git.greenbaum.cloud/greenbaum.cloud/tritonshell?ref=main" ./tritonshell
+cd tritonshell
 ```
 
+
 3. Ready to go:
 ```
 nix develop
 ```
+
+
+**Optional**:
+TODO: add `nix-direnv`