News

Announcements

• Nix error messages proposal: phase 2, PR 1 merged!

Nearly every C++ file in the repo was touched! This will be the biggest PR, by far, for this project. Getting this in is a major feat!

Next up, I'm looking forward to finishing out this phase with showing the lines of code for errors, and supporting show-trace in the new format. I expect that PR to be much easier, both to make the changes and to review them.

• Long-term reproducibility with Nix and Software Heritage

• RFC 70: Merge nixos-hardware into nixpkgs

• NixOS 20.09 Release Manager has been selected

Tutorials & Resources

• So, tell me about Nix

An introduction to the Nix ecosystem and a collection of resources to get started.

• NixOS: How it works and how to install it!

Thorough overview of NixOS.

• Github actions powered by Nix Shell & Cachix

• Tutorial: Ad hoc developer environments

Introduction how to get started with Nix for development in teams.

• Tutorial: Towards reproducibility: Pinning nixpkgs

Introduction for achieving reproducibility with Nix.

• Tutorial: building and running Docker images

• Anti-patterns in Nix language

A few short notes what to avoid when writing Nix.

• ZuriHac: Overhaul of haskell.nix getting started

• netboot.nix: 15 second netboot iterations

• Windows-on-NixOS, part 2: Make it go fast!

• Reproducible Builds with Nix

How Status.im, a messaging app, uses Nix to achieve the 'holy grail' of reproducible builds.

• Mach-nix: Create python environments quick and easy

• homelab using Nix and NixOS

• PureScript on Nix without dependency codegen

• Nix & libSystem

How nixpkgs links against macOS's system libraries.

• home-manager template: get started in a reproducible way.

• Encypted Btrfs Root with Opt-in State on NixOS

• NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root & NixOS ❄: tmpfs as home

Tutorial with step by step instructions for installing NixOS on tmpfs. Also an introduction to how to have a usable /home on tmpfs.

Jobs

• Help Shopify rebuild our world in Nix

Shopify is looking to grow a Nix team to continue its roll-out of Nix-based environments to development, CI, and production, across macOS and Linux.

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