Full Time Nix

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Nix Freaks:
Spontaneous topics
Passionate discussions
Wild takes
Programmer humor
A Full Time Nix production

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Nix Freaks

1. finix
2. ekapkgs
3. Repology requirements
4. systemd is becoming kernel bound
5. Thaiger Sprint November 2025 episode
6. Aurora Sprint 2026 episode
7. vic (Victor Borja)

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Nix Freaks takes place weekly.
You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call.
For details visit fulltimenix.com.

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Bump! Nix ecosystem news.

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1. constitution: add referendums
2. Weekly/biweekly hangout by lassulus
3. @domenkozar nominated for Nixpkgs commit bit (episodes featuring him)
4. ThaigerSprint January 2027 (Thaiger Sprint November 2025)
5. nixos/sshd: mldsa44-ed25519 host key by default

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Bump! Nix ecosystem news.

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1. pkgs.php now points to v8.5
2. Nix Meetup Cologne, Germany October 28, 19:15
3. home-manager claude-code config dir change
4. Nix Community Survey 2026
5. NixOS workshop, Barcelona, Nov 18, 3pm
6. nixos scripted stage 1 removed
7. gradient: init
8. Discussion on getting the Nix daemon out of the business of authentication
9. systemd is becoming kernel bound
10. Nix at FOSDEM 2027 - looking for devroom co-manager
11. Voting has restarted on the third Steering Committee election
12. nixos/tests: implement X11 for nspawn, episode on NixOS tests, episode on nspawn container tests
13. perlPackages.BerkeleyDB downgrade issue
14. Jobs at Aykua Health — Cambridge, UK (hybrid)
15. Breaking changes to all packages except desktop environments are now restricted
16. podman breaking changes
17. forgejo breaking changes
18. Job at VirtusLab
19. Rocky Mountain Linux Fest, Denver, Colorado, August 7 2027
20. A Nix talk at the Pittsburgh Tech Fest, October 30
21. Noisebridge Nix Night, Oct 28 7pm, San Francisco

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Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast.

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Podcast gear sponsored by nixbuild.net.
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NixCon 2026

Sponsored by nixbuild.net

Felix Schröter

• https://nixos.org/community/commercial-support/
• atvari — Software & Cloud Engineering Consulting

Diego Turchetto

TonioGela

Yifei Sun

• garnix | the nix CI
• atelier
• the talk

Lisanna Dettwyler

• nix-scheduler-hook
• The new .devShell interface for nix develop
• The panel at NixCon

parzivale

• finix
• finix talk
• the tangled talk

RTUnreal

JanLikar

Scrumplex

• fetchPnpmCache: init

alexandru0-dev (Alexandru Nechita)

• Where would better Windows support in Nix help you?

vimjoyer (Yurii Melnychenko)

• THE BEST WAY TO LEARN NIX - YouTube

djacu (Daniel Baker)

• Community Survey
• Branding
• Nix 2.35
• Revel are hiring

tfc (Jacek Galowicz)

• Nixcademy
• NixOS Tests nspawn containers

KiaraGrouwstra (kiara)

GrimmTheShrimp (Grimmauld)

• Tools:
  • nix-check-deps (find unnecessary deps)
  • nix-drv-index (find reverse deps "worst offenders")
  • diffoscope (verify dep removal doesn't result in change)
• Docs:
  • pkg removal
  • broken pkg removal RFC
  • "problem" infrastructure RFC
• Ongoing removals (non-exhaustive): gtk2, PCRE, fuse2, vendored electron, (no libgcrypt tracking issue yet)
• Searches
  • "needs cleanup"+"tracking"
  • Cleanup PRs (assuming proper tagging)
  • "picking up garbage" project board
  • some use "topic: hygiene" and "topic: old versions"

cyclic-pentane (pentane)

• nix-community/robotnix
• ForgeFed

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Nixcademy ad transcript:

Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology.
As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity.
Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support
and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt.
What's worse; morale is affected.

But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated.
Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz,
Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix.
It's what they do.

So, liberate your Nix experts,
prevent technical debt
and get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner.
Visit nixcademy.com.

Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months.
They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to.
nixcademy.com.

Determinate Nix ad transcript:

You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work.
But — security, compliance, and scale.
Enter Determinate Nix.
It is the Nix that powers our systems.
But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer.
Such as:

- Parallel evaluation
- Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS
- Lazy trees
- Automatic certificate handling
- First-class mobile device management

And the list goes on.
Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infra
such as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality.

determinate.systems

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For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.

For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

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Bump! Nix ecosystem news.

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1. home-manager claude-code mutable settings
2. nixos/nftables: switch location of rules to be removed
3. Security Advisory: makeBinaryWrapper: empty PATH segments enable current-directory hijacking
4. Security advisory for Nix and Lix
5. home-manager opencode mutable settings
6. SC election candidates
7. nixos programs.ssh.hosts
8. Full-stack job at Treat Health, Helsinki
9. nixmap
10. home-manager removed deprecated features
11. nixos-version new flags
12. numtide/iets: Fast Nix evaluator and remote-build client in Rust

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Nix Freaks:
Spontaneous topics
Passionate discussions
Wild takes
Programmer humor
A Full Time Nix production

For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.

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Nix Freaks

1. A build graph that rolls dice | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
2. Nix SC election 2026
3. Shahar "Dawn" Or (@mightyiam) nomination

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Post-roll transcript:

For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.

Nix Freaks takes place weekly.
You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call.
For details visit fulltimenix.com.

Pre-roll transcript:

Bump! Nix ecosystem news.

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1. services.hydra.adHoc.enable
2. home-manager libreoffice module
3. Frontend Job @ bevuta IT (global, remote)
4. home-manager vscode mutable user settings
5. NixOS and robot infra job, in-person, Massachusetts, Tutor Intelligence
6. Turkish Nix users group is forming
7. SC candidates so far
8. SC election timeline shift
9. Breaking changes to Release Critical packages now restricted

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Submit news items!
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Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast.

For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.

Podcast gear sponsored by nixbuild.net.
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https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.35.1/manual/release-notes/rl-2.35.html

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Nixcademy ad transcript:

Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology.
As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity.
Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support
and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt.
What's worse; morale is affected.

But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated.
Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz,
Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix.
It's what they do.

So, liberate your Nix experts,
prevent technical debt
and get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner.
Visit nixcademy.com.

Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months.
They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to.
nixcademy.com.

Determinate Nix ad transcript:

You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work.
But — security, compliance, and scale.
Enter Determinate Nix.
It is the Nix that powers our systems.
But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer.
Such as:

- Parallel evaluation
- Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS
- Lazy trees
- Automatic certificate handling
- First-class mobile device management

And the list goes on.
Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infra
such as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality.

determinate.systems

Post-roll transcript:

For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.

For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Pre-roll transcript:

Nix Freaks:
Spontaneous topics
Passionate discussions
Wild takes
Programmer humor
A Full Time Nix production

For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.

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Nix Freaks

1. 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘅 (@Malix_Labs) / X
2. vaxry (@vaxryy) / X
3. mightyi.am · Tangled
4. Proposal: Team initiatives, grant program and purpose-bound funding by infinisil · Pull Request #270 · NixOS/org
5. Why fricklerhandwerk changed his mind about flakes (talk)
6. SC election Nominees
7. Nominate @toastal for SC-election-2026
8. treewide: enable strictDeps and structuredAttrs for various low-level packages by SFrijters · Pull Request #551108 · NixOS/nixpkgs

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Post-roll transcript:

For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.

Nix Freaks takes place weekly.
You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call.
For details visit fulltimenix.com.