Full Time Nix

Nix Freaks 53

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. --- Nix Freaks finix ekapkgs Repology requirements systemd is becoming kernel bound Thaiger Sprint November 2025 episode Aurora Sprint 2026 episode vic (Victor Borja) --- 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.

Bump 2026-11-02

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- constitution: add referendums Weekly/biweekly hangout by lassulus @domenkozar nominated for Nixpkgs commit bit (episodes featuring him) ThaigerSprint January 2027 (Thaiger Sprint November 2025) nixos/sshd: mldsa44-ed25519 host key by default --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Nix Freaks 52

Bump 2026-10-28

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- pkgs.php now points to v8.5 Nix Meetup Cologne, Germany October 28, 19:15 home-manager claude-code config dir change Nix Community Survey 2026 NixOS workshop, Barcelona, Nov 18, 3pm nixos scripted stage 1 removed gradient: init Discussion on getting the Nix daemon out of the business of authentication systemd is becoming kernel bound Nix at FOSDEM 2027 - looking for devroom co-manager Voting has restarted on the third Steering Committee election nixos/tests: implement X11 for nspawn, episode on NixOS tests, episode on nspawn container tests perlPackages.BerkeleyDB downgrade issue Jobs at Aykua Health — Cambridge, UK (hybrid) Breaking changes to all packages except desktop environments are now restricted podman breaking changes forgejo breaking changes Job at VirtusLab Rocky Mountain Linux Fest, Denver, Colorado, August 7 2027 A Nix talk at the Pittsburgh Tech Fest, October 30 Noisebridge Nix Night, Oct 28 7pm, San Francisco --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

NixCon 2026 Day Ⅰ

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. --- 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 --- 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.

Bump 2026-10-19

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- home-manager claude-code mutable settings nixos/nftables: switch location of rules to be removed Security Advisory: makeBinaryWrapper: empty PATH segments enable current-directory hijacking Security advisory for Nix and Lix home-manager opencode mutable settings SC election candidates nixos programs.ssh.hosts Full-stack job at Treat Health, Helsinki nixmap home-manager removed deprecated features nixos-version new flags numtide/iets: Fast Nix evaluator and remote-build client in Rust --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Nix Freaks 51

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

Bump 2026-10-12

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- services.hydra.adHoc.enable home-manager libreoffice module Frontend Job @ bevuta IT (global, remote) home-manager vscode mutable user settings NixOS and robot infra job, in-person, Massachusetts, Tutor Intelligence Turkish Nix users group is forming SC candidates so far SC election timeline shift Breaking changes to Release Critical packages now restricted --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Nix 2.35 with Jonathan Ringer

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. --- https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.35.1/manual/release-notes/rl-2.35.html --- 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.

Nix Freaks 50

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

Bump 2026-10-05

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- Nixtamal 2.0.0 26.11 release cycle Nix Workshop in OpenFest, Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov 7-8 NixOS Meetup Darmstadt, Oct 5, 6:30pm Old generated CephX keys vulnerability Nix(OS) Vienna meetup Oct 29, 6pm programs.fish.shellFunctions swift 6 breaking changes NixNL Meetup, December 9, 7pm Boston area Nix Users Group Netherlands government is building a NixOS based desktop services.grafana.declarativePlugins no longer includes default data-sources hydra bump and NixOS module breaking changes Nix Unconference #12, Milan, Oct 17, 9:30 AM home-manager secretspec module Steering Committee candidates so far Prototype Fund started next application round --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Bump 2026-09-27

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- How would better Windows support help you? Breaking config structure change in hostapd CFP: Guix and Nix at Capitole du Libre 2026, Toulouse, France Senior Nix Engineer at Tweag (remote) SecretSpec 0.21: Resolver IPC, external providers, and binary secrets Bay Area Nix Meetup October 2nd 6PM Devenv 2.4: Machines Nix Vegas: Recovering our agency at DEF CON 34 Rewriting Nix in Rust; Casita: content-addressed store --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Nix Freaks 49

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. --- Nix Freaks Mic92/repkgs ekala-project/ekapkgs nickel-lang/nickel hydra-ad-hoc by amaanq Nixpkgs AI policy Nix AI policy Nixpkgs vcunat pull requests tomberek/FHSpkgs Jev AI Quint --- 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.

Bump 2026-09-20

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- ensure-printers.service has been replaced with an ExecStartPost hook in cups.service services.k3s and services.rke2: fixed an image updating problem Nix & Rust Meetup Mannheim, Germany, October 6, 6pm NixCon 2026 --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Nix Freaks 48

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. --- Nix Freaks kiara's NixCon talk, server apps commodified: digital autonomy for the masses nix.conf - plugin-files mightyiam flake.parts website pull requests Everything Is a Trust Decision | nrdxp zamicol (Zach Collier) Announcing our €3,8M seed round — Tangled's Blog Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare - YouTube Full Time Nix | nix-effects with Mika Bohinen --- 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.

Bump 2026-09-15

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- DetSys Happy Hour before NixCon, Krakow, Poland, 6pm Steering Committee published their "meeting protocol" nixfmt 1.5.0 home-manager darwin firefox default configPath change btrfs autoscrub mountpoints automatically mounted vote(31): interim delegation of job posting decisions to moderation team New York Nix Meetup - Oct 22nd 5pm treewide: enable strictDeps and structuredAttrs for various low-level packages by SFrijters lego: 4.35.2 -> 5.4.1 by geri1701 nixos/installer/tools: use channel tarball by default instead of GitHub by GraysonTinker SF Nix meetup at noisebridge September 17th 7:15PM --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Bump 2026-09-09

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- Bigger, better, faster: Introducing the Nix Badge 2.0 SC approved 2026 SC Election Committee NixOS Foundation Financial Report 2025 Devenv 2.3: Portless and TUI configuration Nix Vegas 2026 and the First Nix CTF Nix at The Melbourne Compose Group Sep 17th 4pm Change networking.firewall.checkReversePath to "loose" Nix jobs at Swedish Deference Research Institute (FOI) --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Nix Freaks 47

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. --- Nix Freaks fetchers/git: negotiate rev-pinned fetches from bucketed refs by tomberek · Pull Request #16432 · NixOS/nix Git fetcher: Don't create refs when fetching by revision by edolstra · Pull Request #12386 · NixOS/nix tomberek/nixgg pdtpartners/nix-ninja: Ninja-compatible incremental build system for Nix edolstra/nix-make: Experimental Nix build management stuff --- 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.

Is Tim making the Nix-killer?

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. --- Tim's latest blog post Cyphrme/Coz Certificate Transparency Redefine outputs in terms of language-level "package", not necessarily store-level derivation (RFC-92, and multi-drv packages, docs) · Issue #6507 · NixOS/nix Follow Tim on X for updates --- 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.

Nix Freaks 46

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. --- Nix Freaks blaggacao/frappix: Frappe on Nix frappix/tests/nixos-tests.nix at mob/nixos-test · molybdenumsoftware/frappix Nix Categorization Team Matrix --- 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.