Full Time Nix

Shahar "Dawn" Or
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Feb 24, 2026 • 58min

Nix Freaks 19

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 FreaksHome | cardano.org | CardanoHome - Input | Outputinput-output-hk/haskell.nix: Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgslibfetchers: skip fetching if narHash and rev are defined by juanringer · Pull Request #14978 · NixOS/nixdevice removal for RAID-Z · Issue #9013 · openzfs/zfsTvix store in production - YouTubeReplit — Using Tvix Store to Reduce Nix Storage Costs by 90%dnr/styx: alternate nix substitutionPlan 9 FoundationRossComputerGuy/yani: Yet Another Nix ImplementationRossComputerGuy/zix: Zig, a fork of Nix with the goal to move to Zig.DEF CON® Hacking Conference HomeNix Vegas - HomeGarbage collecting cache.nixos.org - Development / Infrastructure - NixOS DiscourseWebAssembly SIMD review · Issue #487 · w3ctag/design-reviewsHigh precision timing - Web APIs | MDNsyslog-ng SourcesPrometheus - Monitoring system & time series databaseGrafana Loki | Grafana Loki documentationOverview of the Play Integrity API  |  Android Developers ---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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Feb 22, 2026 • 3min

Bump 2026-02-22

Pre-roll transcript:Bump!Nix ecosystem news---Looking for a Nix Meetup in Mexico City - Events - NixOS Discourseman: make package nullable and default to null on darwin by iniw · Pull Request #8723 · nix-community/home-managerhome-manager programs.firefox.profiles.<name>.handlers option (controlling how Firefox opens files and protocols)home-manager programs.rizin (reverse engineering framework)Drowse: Dynamic derivations made easy - 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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Feb 20, 2026 • 19min

NovaCustom NixOS Support

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---NovaCustom now supports NixOS - NovaCustomNovaCustom - Official NixOS WikiDasharo ---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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Feb 19, 2026 • 1h 22min

Nix Freaks 18

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Feb 18, 2026 • 1h 44min

Nixtamal with toastal & nmattia

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---NixtamalFull Time Nix | Thaiger Sprint November 2025Built-ins - Nix 2.33.3 Reference ManualNixpkgs Reference Manual (fetchers)BOB 2021 Raichoo Ketchum - darcs, because git won - YouTubeWelcome to the Smederee!hub.darcs.netsoupaulttmate-io/tmate: Instant Terminal SharingThe KDL Document Language ---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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Feb 16, 2026 • 4min

Bump 2026-02-16

Pre-roll transcript:Bump!Nix ecosystem news---linuxPackages: 6.12 -> 6.18 · NixOS/nixpkgs@efcd42dwine: 10.0->11.0 · NixOS/nixpkgs@b84ad96Open DevOps and Software Developer positons (@Copenhagen, Denmark) - Jobs - NixOS DiscourseSan Francisco Nix happy hour with Determinate Systems and Root Ventures · LumaLiteral Flake Input - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseAgentic Infrastructure Lead (Warsaw, PL or Remote) - Jobs - NixOS Discourseneovim: set provider configuration to initrc by teto · Pull Request #487390 · 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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Feb 13, 2026 • 2h 3min

Nix Freaks 17

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 Freaks[RFC 0110] Add “inherit-as-list” syntax construct to the Nix language by r-burns · Pull Request #110 · NixOS/rfcscwi-swat/aterms: The ATerm library is an extremely efficient library for maximally shared terms with a fast serialized format and a garbage collector (in C).[RFC 0092] Computed derivations by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #92 · NixOS/rfcsTVL’s blog: Tvix Status - August '24GSoC/ideas/2026.md at cfc57b742ff8f05244f2fa5b1ec93d049946f796 · NixOS/GSoCintroduce rust toolchain to nix by mightyiam · Pull Request #28 · NixOS/GSoCFilesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet - YouTubeOpenGL - The Industry Standard for High Performance GraphicsHome Manager News (@hmnews.bsky.social) — BlueskyFull Time Nix | Nix on macOS, nixpkgs for darwin, nix-darwin with Randy Eckenrode ---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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Feb 9, 2026 • 6min

Bump 2026-02-09

Pre-roll transcript:Bump!Nix ecosystem news---Senior Systems Engineer @ Edgeless Systems (Bochum/Berlin/Remote - Germany/EU) - Jobs - NixOS DiscourseNix Users Gathering in the Seattle Area (Feb 2026) - Events - NixOS DiscourseShare your saved replies! - Development - NixOS Discoursehome-manager xdg.userDirs module now supports non-Linux platformsNix-run: run nix derivations without nix3 or flakes - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseNix/NixOS DMV Meetup - Feburary 26th, 2026 - Events - NixOS DiscourseNix O’matic: on-demand heterogeneous environments - Announcements - NixOS Discoursenurl/CHANGELOG.md at main · nix-community/nurlNix Amsterdam Meetup …is back! - Events - NixOS DiscourseRelease 2.9.0 · nix-community/nixd ---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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Feb 6, 2026 • 1h 41min

Nix Freaks 16

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 FreaksFOSDEM - video recordingsnixos/test-driver: add support for nspawn containers by kmein · Pull Request #478109 · NixOS/nixpkgsFlakes — nix.dev documentationallow non-trivial expressions in flakes by KiaraGrouwstra · Pull Request #15132 · NixOS/nix[RFC 0193] TOML Flakes by roberth · Pull Request #193 · NixOS/rfcsfricklerhandwerk/flake-inputs: A helper to use remote references from flake.lock in stable Nix.lix-project/flake-compat: Turns Nix flakes into normal Nix expressions - Lix Systems ---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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Feb 3, 2026 • 14min

Bump 2026-02-03

Pre-roll transcript:Bump!Nix ecosystem news---I built a Nix binary cache backed by Git (82% storage reduction) - Development - NixOS Discoursehome-manager Chrome now has a plasmaSupport flagSoftware Engineer (f/m/d) Build System and Package Management @ Hexagon Robotics (100% Zürich, Switzerland) - Jobs - NixOS Discoursehome-manager launchd module ensures that the store is available before startingnixos/misc/nixpkgs add setting nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePackages = [“list” “of” “packages”] by dwt · Pull Request #396595 · NixOS/nixpkgsNixtamal: Fulfilling, pure input pinning for Nix - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseCachix Deploy is Generally Available and Cachix 1.10 - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseA Full-Source Bootstrap for NixOS - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseI made a dual-bootable NixBSD (NixOS + FreeBSD) image - Development - NixOS DiscourseManage Proton-GE with Home-Manger - Links - NixOS DiscourseCrate2nix 0.15 released - Links - NixOS DiscourseHydra Queue Runner Rewrite 🦀 - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseNfx - An Algebraic Effects System with Handlers in Nix - Links - NixOS DiscourseSecurity Advisory: Database and filestore publicly accessible with default Odoo configuration (CVE-2026-25137) - Announcements / Security - NixOS DiscourseNix Meetup in Vienna, Austria - Events - NixOS DiscourseNix meetup Helsinki - Events - 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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