Come to the Nix Village at DEF CON 34 if you want to learn how to identify the open source maintainers and projects your system is built from (who need support, btw), rather than playing fake compliance games. Couple of our stickers on that booth too. 😜 CFP drops this week ❤️

my first real Kicad project was a two layer and I got through the entirety of Stargate Atlantis 1-5 in the background while routing it

Intel SGX has fallen! Its most important key is in our hands: we extracted the Global Wrapping Key from an instance of the Intel Gemini Lake platform

CQ KD4RC PR 0200 CQ KD4RC PR 0200 ... github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pul…

In the grand scheme of things, the fact that an ansible or puppet file can't do this isn't so much an indictment of those tools (it kind of is) but rather that the bar of quality for SRE/ops tooling is so low that even nix, with its notorious UX problems, can raise that bar

Real question: is there a single example of an Android app that doesn't involve a magical 250-line build.gradle file? Multi module projects get even more ridiculous, FWIW, and the startup time for Gradle to load them all is crazy

burke's videos were (and still are) honestly the best to go deeper into NixOS from a few years back! Fast forward and Shopify is now going back to Nix, rebuilding around it, scaling it and Burke is leading a lot of that. Good convo at PlanetNix 2026 (link below!)

We're glad to announce that we will be back @ DEF CON 34 this year. We're going to do things bigger than last year. Our CFP has been launched and will remain open through June 15th - cfp.nix.vegas/2026/

Interesting, I can't get a negative NaN in Nix

what the Fuck arxiv.org/html/2603.2185…

Heinous Type Tom7 Project Summary youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk

These go hard.

Nix fixes this* *Setting up whole racks from top of rack switches to every single node and their workloads and storage and networking and ... If you're not using nix it's just lol lmao at your expense at this point.

I’m going to create a new compliance standard. It only has one control… “Good security isn’t cheap or easy, stop being a dumbass.”

Tomorrow, come and hang out with some of the SNUG folks and myself at BattleMage Brewing in Carlsbad. northcounty.socal-nug.com/events/2026-04…

One Not James Mickens talk that has aged like fine wine with all the AI shenanigans of the last couple years. Watch it, laugh, maybe weep a little 😭 youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7o…

RFC-793 bis ietf.org/archive/id/dra…

sweet baby jesus