Full Time Nix
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- Nixpkgs now has VLM based screenshot checks
- Nix-why - why does this option have this value?
- nixos/system-path: don’t link /etc/xdg/ uncoditionally by Atemu
- nixos/hardware.printers: add ensureClasses option
- New York Nix Meetup - June 30th
- devenv added to home-manager
- top-level: add error for x86_64-darwin deprecation
- Exa is hiring Nix infra engineers
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- Send in your Nix + AWS usage stories
- Documentation meetings revived
- nixos/systemd/user: migrate to RFC 42-style settings
- lib/systems: move kernel configuration out of the platform structure
- nixos/polkit: modernize, make pkexec wrapper opt-in
- A Nix related talk at Melbourne Compose, June 18 6pm
- First ever Nix meetup in Barcelona June 22
- Bay Area Nix Meetup July 3 6pm
- Noisebridge Nix Ni...
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- NixCI
- Quarto
- Slurm Workload Manager
- Snakemake
- Lustre
- ext4: check fast symlink for ea_inode correctly · torvalds/linux@b4cc4a4
- 421anon/pointy
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- Flox is Growing - 5 New Roles - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
- home-manager zsh: improve startup env and plugin fpath handling
- NixOS Reinstate boot counting
- home-managers sshAuthSock: set in systemd
- Meetup Cologne June 24
- 26.05 release retrospective
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Nest: declarative framework for multi-node NixOS infrastructure
Dnzl - Small Actor System for Pure Nix over stateful streams
Selector4nix: Nix substituter proxy with parallel cache queries and latency-aware selection
stdenv: PURL fetcher introduction
requireFile: set unfree license by default
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Nix-cache-beacon - mDNS discovery for Nix binary caches
One portal for NixOS documentation: the docs team vision
modules: allow config.flake to be undefined by MattSturgeon · Pull Request #4311...
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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! 🎉
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- Build orchestration
- build failure caching
- realization purity
- (not) checking in .envrc files
- secrets
Experimental Local Overlay Store
GitHub Actions job concurrency limits
GitHub Actions sto...
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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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Just published an episode about nix-effects: A pure Nix toolkit for effectful programs, typed validation, verified boundaries, and description-backed DSLs. If you were trying to understand what this means then we’re on the same boat. during the episode I have aske...
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- 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
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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,...
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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.
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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...
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