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Bump 2026-06-23
Nixpkgs now has VLM based screenshot checksNix-why - why does this option have this value?nixos/system-path: don’t link /etc/xdg/ uncoditionally by Atemunixos/hardware...
Nix Freaks 35
Kintex 7 FPGAscosmic-utils/stellarshoticedeguiNix Vegas[WIP] Deprecation warnings for maintainerless leaf packagesChief Mouser to the Cabinet OfficeSecurity Team | Nix...
Bump 2026-06-15
Send in your Nix + AWS usage storiesDocumentation meetings revivednixos/systemd/user: migrate to RFC 42-style settingslib/systems: move kernel configuration out of the...
Nix Freaks 34
NixCIQuartoSlurm Workload ManagerSnakemakeLustreext4: check fast symlink for ea_inode correctly · torvalds/linux@b4cc4a4421anon/pointy
Dependabot Nix Support
DependabotGreenkeeperNix flake support · Issue #7340 · dependabot/dependabot-coreDependabot version updates now support the Nix ecosystem - GitHub ChangelogNixCon 2025...
Bump 2026-06-08
Flox is Growing - 5 New Roles - Jobs - NixOS Discoursehome-manager zsh: improve startup env and plugin fpath handlingNixOS Reinstate boot countinghome-managers sshAuth...
Nix Freaks 33
Midstall/heimdall: Post-silicon hardware verification suite for FPGA’s and CPU’swriters.writeNu: check using nushell’s nu-check built-in by mightyiam · Pull Request #5...
Bump 2026-06-01
Nest: declarative framework for multi-node NixOS infrastructureDnzl - Small Actor System for Pure Nix over stateful streamsSelector4nix: Nix substituter proxy with par...
Nix Freaks 32
Nix-cache-beacon - mDNS discovery for Nix binary cachesOne portal for NixOS documentation: the docs team visionmodules: allow config.flake to be undefined by MattSturg...
Bump 2026-05-26
Call for Volunteers: Standing Election Committeehome-manager: ssh: add RFC 42 settings optionPortland (Oregon) Nix happy hour with Determinate Systems May 26avahi: Han...
Nix Freaks 31
Build orchestrationbuild failure cachingrealization purity(not) checking in .envrc filessecretsExperimental Local Overlay StoreGitHub Actions job concurrency limitsGit...
Bump 2026-05-18
Nixpkgs core team update 2026-05-11LLM/VLM for NixOS VM test screenshot analysisYurii Melnychenko (@vimjoyer) looking for jobnixos/network-interfaces: remove network-s...
nix-effects with Mika Bohinen
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...
Nix Freaks 30
modular services in home-manageribizaman’s bisecting bumperDawn’s first independent paid Nix mentoringupcoming nix-effects episodeJacek’s hydra-like projecthome-manage...
Bump 2026-05-12
home-manager modular serviceshome-manager mandoc and man-dbhome-manager multiple vscode-based editorsLocal privilege escalation in Lix and NixNix meetup Helsinki May 2...
Ocean Sprint 2026
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 exp...
Nix Freaks 29
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 indi...
The libGL Anomaly
Nix and NixOS are almost too good to be true. Isolation, libraries coexisting, transparent binary cache and software that just works. Not works on my machine, just wor...
Bump 2026-05-03
Tacosprint 2026 in Mexicoswitch-to-configuration-ng: reload when ExecReload changesNew York Nix Meetup - May 28GSoC contributors 2026 announced!Job @National Genome Ce...
Nix Freaks 28
Ocean SprintThe Nix momentFrench government NixOSnixos: dbus -> dbus-brokernixos/systemd-boot: Add mirroredBoots
Bump 2026-04-28
libxfs: 6.17.0 -> 6.19.0LixCon 2026 recorded talksbinary caches benchmarksLuj’s Informal Steering Committee ReportsSLAMnixos dbus -> dbus-brokerbuildEnv: use structure...
unflake and The Great Nix Flake Check
goldstein/unflakeThe Great Nix Flake Check | max’s placeunflake/unflake.py at main - goldstein/unflake - Codeberg.org~toastal/dash-nixRemove flake ‘edition’ field · Ni...
Nix Freaks 27
htnl list attribute valuesDesign rule checking - Wikipediaaegis: Open source FPGA siliconZERO Hydra Failures - NixOS Release WikirxRust fixed type inference issueadds ...
Bump 2026-04-20
NixCon 2026: Ticket sales open! - Events / NixCon - NixOS Discourse(NixCon 2025 episode)Nix Vegas at DEF CON 34: Call for Everything! - Events - NixOS DiscourseUnpopul...