Full Time Nix

Full Time Nix

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  • Bump 2026-02-16

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    linuxPackages: 6.12 -> 6.18 · NixOS/nixpkgs@efcd42d
    wine: 10.0->11.0 · NixOS/nixpkgs@b84ad96
    Open DevOps and Software Developer positons (@Copenhagen, Denmark) - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
    San Francisco Nix happy hour with Determinate Systems and Root Ventures · Luma
    Literal Flake Input - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    Agentic Infrastructure Lead (Warsaw, PL or Remote) - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
    neovim: set provider configuration to initrc by teto · Pull Request #487390 · NixOS/nixpkgs


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    4 min
  • Nix Freaks 17

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    [RFC 0110] Add “inherit-as-list” syntax construct to the Nix language by r-burns · Pull Request #110 · NixOS/rfcs
    cwi-swat/aterms: The ATerm library is an extremely efficient library for maximally shared terms with a fast serialized format and a garbage collector (in C).
    [RFC 0092] Computed derivations by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #92 · NixOS/rfcs
    TVL’s blog: Tvix Status - August '24
    GSoC/ideas/2026.md at cfc57b742ff8f05244f2fa5b1ec93d049946f796 · NixOS/GSoC
    introduce rust toolchain to nix by mightyiam · Pull Request #28 · NixOS/GSoC
    Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet - YouTube
    OpenGL - The Industry Standard for High Performance Graphics
    Home Manager News (@hmnews.bsky.social) — Bluesky
    Full Time Nix | Nix on macOS, nixpkgs for darwin, nix-darwin with Randy Eckenrode


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    2 hr 2 min
  • Bump 2026-02-09

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    Senior Systems Engineer @ Edgeless Systems (Bochum/Berlin/Remote - Germany/EU) - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
    Nix Users Gathering in the Seattle Area (Feb 2026) - Events - NixOS Discourse
    Share your saved replies! - Development - NixOS Discourse
    home-manager xdg.userDirs module now supports non-Linux platforms
    Nix-run: run nix derivations without nix3 or flakes - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    Nix/NixOS DMV Meetup - Feburary 26th, 2026 - Events - NixOS Discourse
    Nix O’matic: on-demand heterogeneous environments - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    nurl/CHANGELOG.md at main · nix-community/nurl
    Nix Amsterdam Meetup …is back! - Events - NixOS Discourse
    Release 2.9.0 · nix-community/nixd


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    6 min
  • Nix Freaks 16

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    FOSDEM - video recordings
    nixos/test-driver: add support for nspawn containers by kmein · Pull Request #478109 · NixOS/nixpkgs
    Flakes — nix.dev documentation
    allow non-trivial expressions in flakes by KiaraGrouwstra · Pull Request #15132 · NixOS/nix
    [RFC 0193] TOML Flakes by roberth · Pull Request #193 · NixOS/rfcs
    fricklerhandwerk/flake-inputs: A helper to use remote references from flake.lock in stable Nix.
    lix-project/flake-compat: Turns Nix flakes into normal Nix expressions - Lix Systems


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    1 hr 40 min
  • Bump 2026-02-03

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    I built a Nix binary cache backed by Git (82% storage reduction) - Development - NixOS Discourse
    home-manager Chrome now has a plasmaSupport flag
    Software Engineer (f/m/d) Build System and Package Management @ Hexagon Robotics (100% Zürich, Switzerland) - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
    home-manager launchd module ensures that the store is available before starting
    nixos/misc/nixpkgs add setting nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePackages = [“list” “of” “packages”] by dwt · Pull Request #396595 · NixOS/nixpkgs
    Nixtamal: Fulfilling, pure input pinning for Nix - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    Cachix Deploy is Generally Available and Cachix 1.10 - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    A Full-Source Bootstrap for NixOS - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    I made a dual-bootable NixBSD (NixOS + FreeBSD) image - Development - NixOS Discourse
    Manage Proton-GE with Home-Manger - Links - NixOS Discourse
    Crate2nix 0.15 released - Links - NixOS Discourse
    Hydra Queue Runner Rewrite 🦀 - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    Nfx - An Algebraic Effects System with Handlers in Nix - Links - NixOS Discourse
    Security Advisory: Database and filestore publicly accessible with default Odoo configuration (CVE-2026-25137) - Announcements / Security - NixOS Discourse
    Nix Meetup in Vienna, Austria - Events - NixOS Discourse
    Nix meetup Helsinki - Events - NixOS Discourse


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    14 min
  • Nix Freaks 15

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    Bay Area Nix Meetup first Fridays at UC Berkeley’s OCF on February 6th 6PM to 11PM 🕚 - Events - NixOS Discourse
    Disko-zfs: manage your datasets declaratively - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    Nixpkgs core team update 2026-01-22 - Announcements / Nixpkgs Core Team - NixOS Discourse
    Replit — Using Tvix Store to Reduce Nix Storage Costs by 90%
    Hack on digital autonomy @ Fediversity (EU, Remote) - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
    numinit/flack: A web router backed by the Nix Rust API, inspired by Flask, Rack, Express, and Sinatra
    Your favorite operating systems in one place! | netboot.xyz
    nixops4/nix-bindings-rust: Use the Nix package manager as a library


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    1 hr 13 min
  • Nix Freaks 14

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    New York Nix Meetup - February 18th, 2026 - Events - NixOS Discourse
    New York Nix Meetup - March 18th, 2026 - Events - NixOS Discourse
    Framework Partnership Announcement | Blog | Nix & NixOS
    Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm | Clan
    IT System Administrator (m/w/d) @ Cyberus Technology (Dresden - Germany) - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
    ecryptfs has been removed due to questionable maintenance
    home-manager.startAsUserService
    home-manager systemd.user.packages
    Iaphetes/aphorme_launcher: A program launcher for window managers written in rust
    home-manager programs.aphorme
    Portable rust based service runner for the experimental modular services spec - Links - NixOS Discourse
    juspay/services-flake: NixOS-like services for Nix flakes
    F1bonacc1/process-compose: Process Compose is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications.
    A new neovim wrapper in town - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    BirdeeHub/nix-wrapper-modules: Library for using modules to wrap packages with configuration directly, and a collection of pre-built wrapper modules!
    the Fennel programming language
    Re-establishing Moderation and Building a Path Forward - Announcements / Steering Committee - NixOS Discourse


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    37 min
  • Nix Freaks 13

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    GitHub - elohmeier/nixwrap: Wrap Nix binaries into Python packages for - Links - NixOS Discourse
    Ncps v0.6.0: High Availability with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis support - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    Cloud Networking Software Engineer @ Aviatrix (100% Remote Position in USA) - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
    Integrating Elm with Nix just got easier - Development - NixOS Discourse
    Danish Road Traffic Authority switches from Microsoft to NixOS - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    System Manager 1.0 - Configure your Linux distribution fearlessly – Numtide
    nixos/test-driver: add support for nspawn containers by kmein · Pull Request #478109 · NixOS/nixpkgs
    nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon: Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs


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    1 hr 38 min
  • Nix Freaks 12

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    pyproject-nix/uv2nix: Uv2nix - Ingest uv workspaces using Nix [maintainer=@adisbladis]
    NixCon 2025 - Python packaging with nixpkgs, pyproject.nix & uv2nix - YouTube
    PEP 725 – Specifying external dependencies in pyproject.toml | peps.python.org
    PEP 721 – Using tarfile.data_filter for source distribution extraction | peps.python.org
    Nix Bern Meetup in Switzerland - Events - NixOS Discourse
    Kubix, A Kubernetes manifest generator powered by Nix - Links - NixOS Discourse
    Nix Version Index. A blazingly fast CLI for finding any version of any Nix package - Links - NixOS Discourse
    molybdenumsoftware/conveyorbelt: CLI for web development that watches source, invokes rebuild, statically serves and triggers page reload


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    1 hr 10 min
  • Nix Freaks 11

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    Nix Freaks

    https://discourse.nixos.org/t/breaking-changes-announcement-for-unstable/17574/116?u=mightyiam
    Asterinas NixOS (Linux alternative with Nix userland) - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
    Nix State of the SBOM - Links - NixOS Discourse
    Reusable NixOS images on Hetzner Cloud - Guides - NixOS Discourse
    TOMOYO MAC on NixOS - Development - NixOS Discourse
    finix-community/finix: An experimental os, featuring finit as pid 1, to explore the NixOS design space
    conveyorbelt yet private
    aanderse/trix: trick yourself into flakes


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    1 hr 24 min

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