unflake and The Great Nix Flake Check; the author, Max, and toastal to ask smart questions. unflake is an alternative dependency resolver and runtime for Nix flakes. Max ran a check on more than 7,000 flakes and shared insights and tidbits with us. The Lock-Files.
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nix-effects: A pure Nix toolkit for effectful programs, typed validation, verified boundaries, and description-backed DSLs. I have asked the author of nix-effects, Mika Bohinen, all of the dumbest questions and, who knows, maybe even some good ones.
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With Ankit Kumar Honey, senior engineering manager at GitHub, working on the Dependabot ecosystem, and Jamie Magee, principal software engineer at Microsoft, focusing on open source software and supply chain security, who contributed the Dependabot Nix support.
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Nix is almost too good to be true. Isolation, libraries coexisting, transparent binary cache and software that just works. But is that always the case? Join us for a discussion about libGL and find out what anomalies lurk in the dark depths of our operating systems.
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Nix Freaks 27: rxRust, low-level computer-ing things that I don't understand, gaming, Arm PC when? Hardware, cooling, power supply, cars, VMs, containers, micro VMs. Tune in.
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In Nix Freaks 28 mschwaig, kiara, toastal and I discussed whatever Nix things were on our minds. Public interfaces: flake outputs versus vanilla overlays, NixOS in ZFS home encryption (which sounds cool to me), mirrored boot partitions and more.
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A Nix Freaks 29 with crertel, Tristan Ross, and jonringer. Nix documentation and the tooling for it, 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
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Nix Freaks 26. kiara, Jacek, Aaron, toastal and I, Ocean Sprint, which is happening right this moment, ReactiveX, reactive programming, UI, rxrust, TypeScript, Rust, and other languages, shell sandboxing, The NixOS Test Runner and more.
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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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You've asked for feedback on the vision in your announcement. Here's a piece of feedback. The term NixOS has since "forever" been misused in this ecosystem. I would like to ask you to: Acknowledge ...
