Full Time Nix

Shahar "Dawn" Or
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Mar 23, 2026 • 6min

Bump 2026-03-23

Pre-roll transcript:Bump!Nix ecosystem news---A piece of flake - nix flake repository - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseRelease 1.4.0 · Mic92/nix-fast-buildBay Area post-Planet Nix Meetup at UC Berkeley’s OCF on Friday April 3rd 6PM to 11PM 🕚 - Events - NixOS Discourseminutes: March 4th and 11th, 2026 by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #20 · NixOS/steering-committeebintools-wrapper: disable libcxxhardeningextensive hardening flag by … · NixOS/nixpkgs@d8d07a0neovim dont wrap lua path by teto · Pull Request #500416 · NixOS/nixpkgsNix Amsterdam Meetup: June 10th 2026 - Events - NixOS Discoursenixos/acme: default to dynamic renewal days by mweinelt · Pull Request #479209 · NixOS/nixpkgsnixos/profiles: remove hardened by zowoq · Pull Request #501199 · NixOS/nixpkgsPlanetNix 2026, two weeks out, 350+ signed up, full agenda is live - Announcements - NixOS Discourse ---Real short mentoring ad transcript:For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.I am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn’t pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com
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Mar 23, 2026 • 18min

SaltSprint 2026 Invite

Pre-roll transcript:Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcastFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app---SaltSprinthttps://matrix.to/#/#saltsprint:matrix.org ---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 supportand 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 debtand 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.Mentoring ad transcript:Hey, you. Do you need help with Nix, NixOS, home-manager, flakes, flake-parts, dendritic, dev-shells, packaging, the Nix language, Nixpkgs, the module system, software development or maybe Rust?I'm sure you can figure it out. But, you could pay the dime to cut the time.Pay me! I'll teach you and guide you through whatever shenanigans you've gotten yourself into.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.comI am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn't pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com
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Mar 22, 2026 • 1h 51min

Nix Freaks 22

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Mar 20, 2026 • 59min

Aurora Sprint 2026

Pre-roll transcript:Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcastFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app---Aurora SprintNeuralNoteyabridgeAbout Cosmos | Genki InstrumentsBitwigneuralnote init by fkeglevich · Pull Request #494890 · NixOS/nixpkgsRockchipadiosfinixGenkiYubiKeysmusl libcKatlaJörg ThalheimNixOS FoundationDeterminate Systems ---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 supportand 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 debtand 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.Mentoring ad transcript:Hey, you. Do you need help with Nix, NixOS, home-manager, flakes, flake-parts, dendritic, dev-shells, packaging, the Nix language, Nixpkgs, the module system, software development or maybe Rust?I'm sure you can figure it out. But, you could pay the dime to cut the time.Pay me! I'll teach you and guide you through whatever shenanigans you've gotten yourself into.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.comI am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn't pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com
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Mar 17, 2026 • 5min

Bump 2026-03-17

Pre-roll transcript:Bump!Nix ecosystem news---Minimal NixOS systemd-nspawn containers - Links - NixOS DiscourseThymis now has a public demo instance you can log into - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseSaltSprint Halle (Saale, Germany) June 22 - 26 2026 - Events - NixOS Discoursenixos/network-interfaces: Add iplvan support · NixOS/nixpkgs@40b42e9Founding Engineer (AI-first) at Indexable | Y Combinator2026-03-09 - Marketing Team Minutes - Meta / Marketing - NixOS DiscourseNative Nix Support in Artifactory: The Binary Cache for the Enterprise - Links - NixOS DiscourseNixOS Foundation Financial Report 2024 - Meta / NixOS Foundation - NixOS DiscourseGitHub Secure Open Source Fund - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseCall for Nixpkgs ROCm usecase submissions for validation suite development - Development - NixOS Discourseduckstation: drop by Sigmanificient · Pull Request #499706 · NixOS/nixpkgsKcore: an open-source hypervisor that uses NixOS as the immutable host OS - NixOS Discourse ---Real short mentoring ad transcript:For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.I am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn’t pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com
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Mar 15, 2026 • 32min

Nix 2.34 with Arian van Putten

Pre-roll transcript:Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcastFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app---https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.34.1/manual/release-notes/rl-2.34.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 supportand 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 debtand 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.Mentoring ad transcript:Hey, you. Do you need help with Nix, NixOS, home-manager, flakes, flake-parts, dendritic, dev-shells, packaging, the Nix language, Nixpkgs, the module system, software development or maybe Rust?I'm sure you can figure it out. But, you could pay the dime to cut the time.Pay me! I'll teach you and guide you through whatever shenanigans you've gotten yourself into.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.comI am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn't pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com
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Mar 12, 2026 • 2h 45min

Nix Freaks 21

Pre-roll transcript:Nix Freaks:Spontaneous topicsPassionate discussionsWild takesProgrammer humorA Full Time Nix productionFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app---Nix FreaksHL2 Citadel modelYoctoNixVegas/badgeNixVegas/pcbVerilogFPGARegister transfer languageTape-outHard ChipFactorioFunctorioSCALE 23xSCALE YouTubeCCCnix.ugREPRO-HPC Workshop/nix => /var/nix, /opt/nix, /usr/local/nix?Fedora SilverblueSteam FrameJovian-NixOSnixos-facterfacter optionsnixpkgs/nixos/modules/profiles/hardened.nixnuminit/flack: A web router backed by the Nix Rust APISystem and Organization Controlssandboxed devshells NixOS/GSoCRossComputerGuy/mkvmshellSoft-shell crabSoft-shell turtleScudo Hardened Allocatorcontainers/bubblewrapmicrovm.nixagent-sandbox.nixLandlockseccompsandboxSourceForgetangled · tightly-knit social codingoctocrabflack-powered NixOS SearchhtnlParallel Nix evaluationYARVLixNix WebAssemblyminimal-bootstrap: Hook up with stdenv - Nixpkgs PRdtolnay/bootstrap: Bootstrapping rustc from sourcephoto of whiteboard at Planet Nix ---Mentoring ad transcript:Hey, you. Do you need help with Nix, NixOS, home-manager, flakes, flake-parts, dendritic, dev-shells, packaging, the Nix language, Nixpkgs, the module system, software development or maybe Rust?I'm sure you can figure it out. But, you could pay the dime to cut the time.Pay me! I'll teach you and guide you through whatever shenanigans you've gotten yourself into.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.comNix Freaks takes place weekly.You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call.For details visit fulltimenix.comI am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn't pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com
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Mar 9, 2026 • 3min

Bump 2026-03-09

Pre-roll transcript:Bump!Nix ecosystem news---Call for Contributions: REPRO-HPC Workshop - June 26th 2026, ISC, Hamburg, Germany - Events - NixOS DiscourseNix 2.34.0 released - Announcements / Nix Releases - NixOS DiscourseStaff Software Build Engineer (NIX + Bazel) @ Intuitive Surgical (US) - Jobs - NixOS Discoursetop-level: add warning for x86_64-darwin deprecation by emilazy · Pull Request #492100 · NixOS/nixpkgsServer apps commodified: digital autonomy for the masses - Development / Deployments - NixOS DiscourseConcourse.nix: Declaratively manage Concourse CI - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseNixOS Foundation Update August 2025 - February 2026 - Meta / NixOS Foundation - NixOS DiscourseAnnouncing NH 4.3.0 - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseDeterminate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemasDeterminate Nix is ushering in a new era for the Nix language, courtesy of WebAssembly - Links - NixOS DiscourseCustomizable flake outputs with flake schemas - Links - NixOS DiscourseDetSys Nix Happy Hour with Eelco in San Francisco — March 11, 2026 - Events - NixOS DiscourseUnofficial Nix/NixOS Community on Fluxer - Announcements - NixOS Discourse26.05 Call for Release Editor - Development - NixOS Discourse ---Real short mentoring ad transcript:For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.I am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn’t pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com
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Mar 8, 2026 • 1h 54min

Nix Freaks 20

Pre-roll transcript:Nix Freaks:Spontaneous topicsPassionate discussionsWild takesProgrammer humorA Full Time Nix productionFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app---Nix Freaksdeephack - YouTubeDeephack Plays - YouTubeDeephack on Tech - YouTubeDeephack on Tech (@deephackontech.bsky.social) — BlueskyUnofficial NixOS DiscordLixFull Time Nix | Jonathan RingerFull Time Nix | Jonas ChevalierFull Time Nix | Domen KožarPlus/4 - WikipediaGerman keyboard layout - WikipediaUmlaut (diacritic) - WikipediaApple-lisa-1 - Apple Lisa - WikipediaCommodore 128 - WikipediaMS-DOS - WikipediaWindows 3.1 - WikipediaWindows 95 - WikipediaWindows Me - WikipediaApple IIc - WikipediaPsion Organiser - WikipediaSchneider Euro PC - WikipediaBBC Micro - WikipediaAtari ST - WikipediaApple II – FujiNetNeXTcube - WikipediaPlanetNix 2026NEW NIX BOOK: Nix Anti-Patterns - YouTubemissingmanuals.com – Complete LibraryStroustrup: Booksnickel-lang/nickel: Better configuration for lessPureScriptadisbladis/korora: A tiny & fast type system for Nix in Nixtangled · tightly-knit social codingNixOS/GSoCmolybdenumsoftware/statix: A linter for the Nix languagerust-lang/rust-clippy: A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/Snix | Snixnix-community/rnix-parser: A Nix parser written in Rust [maintainer=@oberblastmeister]Server apps commodified: digital autonomy for the masses - Development / Deployments - NixOS DiscourseAT ProtocolModular services tracking · Issue #428084 · NixOS/nixpkgs ---Mentoring ad transcript:Hey, you. Do you need help with Nix, NixOS, home-manager, flakes, flake-parts, dendritic, dev-shells, packaging, the Nix language, Nixpkgs, the module system, software development or maybe Rust?I'm sure you can figure it out. But, you could pay the dime to cut the time.Pay me! I'll teach you and guide you through whatever shenanigans you've gotten yourself into.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.comNix Freaks takes place weekly.You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call.For details visit fulltimenix.comI am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn't pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com
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Mar 2, 2026 • 9min

Bump 2026-03-02

Pre-roll transcript:Bump!Nix ecosystem news---Diffing NixOS configurations at the config-level - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseTrampolining Nix with genericClosure - Guides - NixOS DiscourseNcps v0.9: Content-Defined Chunking (CDC) and Performance Overhaul - Announcements - NixOS Discourseprefetch-npm-deps: add cacheVersion for packument support by Mic92 · Pull Request #470517 · NixOS/nixpkgsruby: ruby_3_3 -> ruby_3_4 by kirillrdy · Pull Request #482222 · NixOS/nixpkgsnodejs: add a corepack output by aduh95 · Pull Request #487796 · NixOS/nixpkgsstestrCheckHook: init by Vinetos · Pull Request #489221 · NixOS/nixpkgsDeparting from the Nix Formatting Team - Development - NixOS DiscourseNixOS Meetup Darmstadt - 2026-03-09 - Events - NixOS DiscourseNix-effects: a dependent type checker in pure Nix - Development - NixOS DiscourseNix(OS) Viennaneovim: disable python3 and ruby providers by default by teto · Pull Request #492131 · NixOS/nixpkgsman-pages: 6.16 -> 6.17, split outputs, add passthru test by mdaniels5757 · Pull Request #490910 · NixOS/nixpkgs ---Real short mentoring ad transcript:For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.I am pleased to be of service to the Nix ecosystem,but that doesn’t pay the bills.So please sponsor me. Even a little bit helps.fulltimenix.com

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