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Shahar "Dawn" Or
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Feb 2, 2026 • 1h 14min
Nix Freaks 15
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 FreaksBay Area Nix Meetup first Fridays at UC Berkeley’s OCF on February 6th 6PM to 11PM 🕚 - Events - NixOS DiscourseDisko-zfs: manage your datasets declaratively - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseNixpkgs core team update 2026-01-22 - Announcements / Nixpkgs Core Team - NixOS DiscourseReplit — Using Tvix Store to Reduce Nix Storage Costs by 90%Hack on digital autonomy @ Fediversity (EU, Remote) - Jobs - NixOS Discoursenuminit/flack: A web router backed by the Nix Rust API, inspired by Flask, Rack, Express, and SinatraYour favorite operating systems in one place! | netboot.xyznixops4/nix-bindings-rust: Use the Nix package manager as a library
---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

Jan 28, 2026 • 38min
Nix Freaks 14
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 FreaksNew York Nix Meetup - February 18th, 2026 - Events - NixOS DiscourseNew York Nix Meetup - March 18th, 2026 - Events - NixOS DiscourseFramework Partnership Announcement | Blog | Nix & NixOSClan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm | ClanIT System Administrator (m/w/d) @ Cyberus Technology (Dresden - Germany) - Jobs - NixOS Discourseecryptfs has been removed due to questionable maintenancehome-manager.startAsUserServicehome-manager systemd.user.packagesIaphetes/aphorme_launcher: A program launcher for window managers written in rusthome-manager programs.aphormePortable rust based service runner for the experimental modular services spec - Links - NixOS Discoursejuspay/services-flake: NixOS-like services for Nix flakesF1bonacc1/process-compose: Process Compose is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications.A new neovim wrapper in town - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseBirdeeHub/nix-wrapper-modules: Library for using modules to wrap packages with configuration directly, and a collection of pre-built wrapper modules!the Fennel programming languageRe-establishing Moderation and Building a Path Forward - Announcements / Steering Committee - NixOS Discourse
---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

Jan 13, 2026 • 1h 39min
Nix Freaks 13
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 FreaksGitHub - elohmeier/nixwrap: Wrap Nix binaries into Python packages for - Links - NixOS DiscourseNcps v0.6.0: High Availability with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis support - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseCloud Networking Software Engineer @ Aviatrix (100% Remote Position in USA) - Jobs - NixOS DiscourseIntegrating Elm with Nix just got easier - Development - NixOS DiscourseDanish Road Traffic Authority switches from Microsoft to NixOS - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseSystem Manager 1.0 - Configure your Linux distribution fearlessly – Numtidenixos/test-driver: add support for nspawn containers by kmein · Pull Request #478109 · NixOS/nixpkgsnix-community/nixos-apple-silicon: Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs
---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

Jan 6, 2026 • 1h 11min
Nix Freaks 12
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 Freakspyproject-nix/uv2nix: Uv2nix - Ingest uv workspaces using Nix [maintainer=@adisbladis]NixCon 2025 - Python packaging with nixpkgs, pyproject.nix & uv2nix - YouTubePEP 725 – Specifying external dependencies in pyproject.toml | peps.python.orgPEP 721 – Using tarfile.data_filter for source distribution extraction | peps.python.orgNix Bern Meetup in Switzerland - Events - NixOS DiscourseKubix, A Kubernetes manifest generator powered by Nix - Links - NixOS DiscourseNix Version Index. A blazingly fast CLI for finding any version of any Nix package - Links - NixOS Discoursemolybdenumsoftware/conveyorbelt: CLI for web development that watches source, invokes rebuild, statically serves and triggers page reload
---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

Dec 30, 2025 • 1h 25min
Nix Freaks 11
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 FreaksNix Freakshttps://discourse.nixos.org/t/breaking-changes-announcement-for-unstable/17574/116?u=mightyiamAsterinas NixOS (Linux alternative with Nix userland) - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseNix State of the SBOM - Links - NixOS DiscourseReusable NixOS images on Hetzner Cloud - Guides - NixOS DiscourseTOMOYO MAC on NixOS - Development - NixOS Discoursefinix-community/finix: An experimental os, featuring finit as pid 1, to explore the NixOS design spaceconveyorbelt yet privateaanderse/trix: trick yourself into flakes
---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

Dec 26, 2025 • 1h 29min
Nix Freaks 10
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 FreaksCreators & Guests
Per Magnus - Guest
Shahar "Dawn" Or - Host
Jacek Galowicz - Guest
MyNixOSMyNixOS v2 previewnix-community/nixos-anywhere: Install NixOS everywhere via SSHnix-community/nix-direnv: A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnvflake-partsMic92/sops-nix: Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sopsnix-community/disko: Declarative disk partitioning and formatting using nixzhaofengli/colmena: A simple, stateless NixOS deployment toolpveierland/fhupdocstra/dev/default.nix at master · molybdenumsoftware/docstraNixcademyNew York Nix Meetup - January 14th, 2026 - Events - NixOS DiscourseNix CN Meetup #2 - 2025-12-27~28, Shanghai - Events - NixOS DiscourseCall for Participation: BOB 2026 (Berlin, Mar 13) - Events - NixOS DiscourseGarnix Blog: Hardware-Attested Nix BuildsManifest2Nix.jl, a build tool for Julia - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseCTRL-OS December Updates (NixOS LTS with 5-Year Support) - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseNew nix-infra release supports self hosting and Hetzner Cloud - Announcements - NixOS Discourselosnappas/flakegarden: Nix flake starters that you fully ownThe Foundation for your Design System - shadcn/uiRadix UIRepX: A Nix alternative to GWL for HPC - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
---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

Dec 24, 2025 • 34min
Aurora Sprint 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---Aurora SprintGenkiGenki KatlaOlafur BogasonNixCon 2025 - Nix as a solution to embedded linux - YouTubeHercules CI EffectsMatthew CroughanadisbladisOcean SprintThaiger SprintFull Time Nix | Sprints with Neyts ZupanMic92 (Jörg Thalheim)nix-community/nixos-anywhere: Install NixOS everywhere via SSHmusl libcUnofficial NixOS DiscordSteam Hardware & Software Survey
---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

Dec 18, 2025 • 55min
Nix 2.33 with Thomas Bereknyei
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-2.33.0/manual/release-notes/rl-2.33.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

Dec 17, 2025 • 40min
Nix 2.32 with Thomas Bereknyei
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-2.32.2/manual/release-notes/rl-2.32.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

Dec 16, 2025 • 1h 47min
Nix Freaks 9
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 Freakshttps://fulltimenix.com/nix-freaksGarnix ActionsAlloc.nixunflakenix-scheduler-hookNixbitSnowbootNiks3Cachix configurable upstream cachesOcean Sprinthttps://github.com/numinit/flackhome-manager defaultEditor now sets VISUALhome-manager programs.npmhome-manager services.colima tool for orchestrating container runtimes under a linux VMhttps://github.com/aanderse/teraflopsNix at Shopify episode
---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


