Full Time Nix

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Bump! Nix ecosystem news.

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Call for Volunteers: Standing Election Committee
home-manager: ssh: add RFC 42 settings option
Portland (Oregon) Nix happy hour with Determinate Systems May 26
avahi: Handle 5 security findings + 1 NixOS mitigation
Bay Area Nix Meetup June 5th 6PM
Nix-cache-beacon
release-26.05 has been branched off! 🎉
SC minutes
One portal for NixOS documentation: the docs team vision
Nix Meetup Cologne May 27

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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

• Build orchestration
• build failure caching
• realization purity
• (not) checking in .envrc files
• secrets

Experimental Local Overlay Store
GitHub Actions job concurrency limits
GitHub Actions storage limits

LLM/VLM for NixOS VM test screenshot analysis
Native Nix Support in Artifactory

SHAttered

How AGE is pronounced

direnv: don’t check in .envrc files

spiffe/spire
Slay the Spire 2

numinit/nixpkcs

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Nix Freaks takes place weekly.
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Nixpkgs core team update 2026-05-11
LLM/VLM for NixOS VM test screenshot analysis
Yurii Melnychenko (@vimjoyer) looking for job
nixos/network-interfaces: remove network-setup [v2]
NixOS 26.05 delayed
NixOS meetup at GPN24 in Karlsruhe, Germany
NixOS Meetup Darmstadt - 2026-06-01

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nix-effects
dendritic
Eff
Trampolining Nix with genericClosure - Guides - NixOS Discourse
Cycle.js
ReactiveX
rxRust
3 type error handlers
interpreter example
agda
Lean 4
Lie-Størmer Center
Den
Ned

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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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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

• modular services in home-manager
• ibizaman’s bisecting bumper
• Dawn’s first independent paid Nix mentoring
• upcoming nix-effects episode
• Jacek’s hydra-like project

home-manager modular services support by KiaraGrouwstra
Ibizaman’s Blog - Bisect Experiment at the PR Level
Shahar’s mentoring videos on YouTube
nix-effects
tfc/argunix
Jacek’s argunix instance
Argus Panoptes - Wikipedia

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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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tacosprint.org

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Bump! Nix ecosystem news.

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home-manager modular services
home-manager mandoc and man-db
home-manager multiple vscode-based editors
Local privilege escalation in Lix and Nix
Nix meetup Helsinki May 28
Infinidoge looking for work during the summer
Software jobs at Obsidian Systems
home-manager non-NixOS gpu setup tmpfiles.d
There will be only one staging-next cycle
North County NUG, Vista, California May 23rd
Ned: Cyclic Functional Reactive Programming for Nix
Nixos-artifacts: one interface for secrets across agenix, sops-nix, and more
Nix/NixOS DMV Meetup - May 30th
Gradient: Call for Testers
DINUM (France) is switching to NixOS

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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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Ocean Sprint 2026 took place in April. While I was not there myself, I did have remote conversations with several participants during the sprint. To learn of their experiences and what they were working on check out this latest episode, Ocean Sprint 2026.

tfc (Jacek Galowicz)
Anthropic
Nixcademy
secunet
Mercury
Clan
Lovable
Flying Circus
Cyberus Technology
Namespace
Rok Garbas

zupo (Neyts Zupan)
unify (archived)
Elm
Hakuto
teamniteo/pyramid_jwt2

roberth (Robert Hensing)
Hercules CI
GSoC contributors 2026
Transforming global software distribution with Nixpkgs
NixOS Modular Services
Lassulus/wrappers

drorspei
fix concurrent localstore migrations

ggPeti
pointy.cloud

domenkozar (Domen Kožar)
Full Time Nix | Devenv 2.0 with Domen Kožar
Taco Sprint

hsjobeki (Johannes Kirschbauer)
NVIDIA DGX Spark
graham33/nixos-dgx-spark
hsjobeki/mana: 💎

nkk0 (Niko Klanecek)
Fix indefinite hangs on non-EC2 network paths

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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

A Nix Freaks 29 with crertel, Tristan Ross, and jonringer. Nix documentation and the tooling for it, Nix Nixpkgs review tooling or a deficiency of it? A caps lock indicator adventure… the need to prevent electronics from being antennas, a Dart runtime in Rust and more!

The Nix Package Manager - Nix-Book
Phase-locked loop - Wikipedia
Bus Pirate - Wikipedia
Linux on IBM Z - Wikipedia
The Soul of a New Machine - Wikipedia
Race for a New Game Machine by David Shippy | Open Library

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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:

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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Nix and NixOS are almost too good to be true. Isolation, libraries coexisting, transparent binary cache and software that just works. Not works on my machine, just works. But is that always the case? Or... Did we manage to get ourselves into... impurities? Join us for a discussion about libGL and find out what anomalies lurk in the dark depths of our operating systems.

[Nix is a lie, and that’s ok | Farid Zakaria’s Blog](https://fzakaria.com/2026/03/07/nix-is-a-lie-and-that-s-ok)
[Help understanding the libGL ABI problem and possible solutions - Help - NixOS Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/help-understanding-the-libgl-abi-problem-and-possible-solutions/42022?u=mightyiam)
[Spack](https://spack.io/)
[nix-community/nixos-facter: Declarative hardware configuration for NixOS](https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-facter)

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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.