zimbatm.bsky.social

Good morning Europe, Let's get to work… 1) As some of you already heard: the EU has confirmed that they are starting to work on a pan-european legal entity early 2025 🔥 2) Instead of waiting and hoping for the best. We want to frontrun this and – together with the whole

📢 NixOS Foundation Board Rotation – Call for Nominations Excited to share that we’re initiating our board rotation for the NixOS Foundation! Key roles: 🪙 Treasurer ✒️ Secretary 📖 Director of Legal Affairs 💾 Director of Community Support discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-founda…

For companies looking to give back, Oceansprint is great ROI in terms of amount of dollar spent to positive outcomes. github.com/nix-community/… github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-… noogle.dev And so many human connections that contribute to a more healthy ecosystem.

A follow-up to a point on Bluesky: zimbatm.com/notes/garnix-i…

Did you ever deploy your NixOS configuration to the wrong host? It happened to me a few times. Luckily it's easy to revert but it can cause downtime and state folders to be left around.

There. One less papercut. github.com/nix-community/…

Reminder that you can get unfree+redistributable binaries (eg: CUDA, ZeroTier or MongoDB) from the nix-community.cachix.org cache. I noticed today that this knowledge is not widely available. hydra.nix-community.org/project/nixpkgs

TL;DR: Honey is scamming everybody, even their users. youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3…

Can't believe we're 6 short of 100 supported code formatters already. github.com/numtide/treefm…

Something I have been working on for the past month. I'm excited to see what improved communication can bring to the NixOS ecosystem. discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-…

Straight from Ocean Sprint, Florian announced Snix: snix.dev/blog/announcin…

Thanks to all our sponsors to make this collaboration happen 🙏

github.com/numtide/treefm… now supports 100 formatters! :)

Blocking code merges until they are "reviewed" is probably the single most killer of development velocity. Using git the same way the Kernel team uses it makes no sense. The key thing about the Kernel team is it's not really a team. The risk is very high and trust is very low.

Don’t let AWS rip you off. We grew our B2C education app to ~400k users and $1M+ ARR on a single $87/month dedicated server from OVH. No autoscaling nonsense, managed database markup, or observability bloat. Just a fast, predictable server that quietly did its job for years.

Sovereign Tech Agency of the German Government just invested 230,000 euros into Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS This is *amazing* news discourse.nixos.org/t/transforming…

Feeling overwhelmed by Email? Switch your organization to Slack. Now you have two disjoined places to feel overwhelmed and search information in.

If this isn't saying that #nix is going mainstream, I don't know what is.

Tired of hitting rate limits when running `nix flake update`? Trying to fetch a private repository in your flake inputs or builtin fetchers? Here is a new tool for you (still early, looking for feedback): github.com/numtide/nix-au…