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Flox @flox.dev · 26/09/2026
@refroni.bsky.social on stage at #NixCon2026 talking about Nixing AI ❄️
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Flox @flox.dev · 25/09/2026
We’re at #NixCon2026 ❄️ The booth is up, the Flox team is here, and we’re very happy to be spending the next few days with the #Nix community in Kraków. Come say hi, talk Nix, grab some swag, and hang out with us. See you around! 😎
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Flox @flox.dev · 17/09/2026
We’re coming to NixCon 2026! Come say hi, grab some swag, and catch the Flox team on stage: 🟣 Ron Efroni: Nix State of the Union 2026 and Nixing Artificial Intelligence 🟣 Yannik Sander: Adding to the Pile, or How to Extend nixpkgs 🟣 Rok Garbas: Flox lightning talk Full schedule: buff.ly/UR2zBC4
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Flox @flox.dev · 11/09/2026
Flox v1.16 is out. Run a package on demand, without creating an environment or installing anything. Plus: new plugins for 1Password, Vault, OpenBao, and Infisical. Secrets stay with the provider and become available when you activate. More: buff.ly/XAEDEq8
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Flox @flox.dev · 04/09/2026
“Skills are software” There’s a great discussion about agents in this Fallthrough episode with Ron and James. Thanks to Matthew and Kris for having us! Watch here: buff.ly/ClOSMPu
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Flox @flox.dev · 28/08/2026
The faster agents build, the less tolerance there is for inconsistency in the environments where they work. Reproducibility is what ensures that AI agents always build, test, and debug in exactly the same environment. Captured at PlanetNix 2026.
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Flox @flox.dev · 13/08/2026
Flox is growing! Welcome to the team, Justin, Alan, and David 👋 We’re excited to have you all on board. Let’s go! 🚀
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Flox @flox.dev · 04/08/2026
Signing a person in and authenticating a pipeline are two different jobs. FloxHub now treats them that way. Today, we are announcing two new credential types for FloxHub: Service Account Tokens for automation, Personal Access Tokens for people. Full writeup: buff.ly/Qdhjrk9
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Flox @flox.dev · 30/07/2026
Auto-activation is here for Flox environments. Walk into a directory with a .flox folder and the environment turns itself on. Nested environments and services come along too. Your environments become one less thing to think about. Read the full post here: buff.ly/8CYRuSbhttps...
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Flox @flox.dev · 22/07/2026
One tool. Every language. Declare Python, Node, Go, Rust, or whatever your project needs in a single Flox environment. Flox activate, and the exact versions you pinned land first on PATH. Same on macOS and Linux, no containers. Change a version? That's a reviewable diff. buff.ly/de8Wb25
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Flox @flox.dev · 16/07/2026
People keep asking how to set up their AI stack as code. So here's the pattern: one Flox file — packages, versions, services — that your whole team activates. Same stack on macOS, Linux, WSL2, CUDA or Metal. Link here: buff.ly/PVaRl8m
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Flox @flox.dev · 09/07/2026
Getting the same environment twice was never easy. Now a coding agent installs dependencies and changes your system while you're not looking causing your laptop to drift further from prod. Flox CPO James Bayer gets into it on Temporal's Vibe Check: buff.ly/HWaXb38
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Flox @flox.dev · 30/06/2026
Shai-Hulud doesn't break in. It gets installed, then reads whatever credentials are lying around and ships them off. A hermetic build keeps nothing lying around: no ambient creds, no network. It can't steal what it can't see. Link to full blog: buff.ly/Xw2Jie6
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Flox @flox.dev · 25/06/2026
Couldn't make Planet Nix 2026? Or made it, but spent the whole time in the hallway track? Either way, the talk recordings are all on YouTube now. buff.ly/sG5nlLg
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Flox @flox.dev · 23/06/2026
It trains on your MacBook then it hits Slurm and dies: wrong CUDA, missing libs, broken paths. Not another container. One Nix-pinned environment, identical from laptop to cluster to prod. We trained nanoGPT on Slurm to prove it: buff.ly/JJJd5yP
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Flox @flox.dev · 18/06/2026
We're going live with Temporal on June 24. James Bayer shows how a reproducible Temporal + AI dev environment goes from a stack of manual setup steps to one command: `flox activate`. Then more on sandboxing, security & observability. 📆 Jun 24 · 11am PT · buff.ly/8xH3pQu
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Flox @flox.dev · 15/06/2026
Planet Nix is back. April 1-2, 2027 in Pasadena. Two days of Nix in production — the talks, the workshops, and the people building with it. The CFP is open. If you've shipped something real with Nix, get on stage: buff.ly/sJ1qFRe
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Flox @flox.dev · 11/06/2026
Resolve runs their developer environments on Flox: reproducible, the same on every machine. Read the story: buff.ly/vsoFqpL
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Flox @flox.dev · 04/06/2026
Dev containers or Nix-style environments? False choice. Declare your runtime — language, libraries, build tools, CLIs — natively on the host with Flox, Nix, or Guix. Keep backing services in containers. The same split runs local → CI → prod. buff.ly/Y27BWgA
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Flox @flox.dev · 02/06/2026
Flox is powering Resolve AI’s dev environments. Resolve triages production incidents for the world’s biggest companies. Their team now builds on reproducible Flox environments: one shared setup that can run locally, in CI, and in prod. Learn more here: buff.ly/m7m9TDo
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Flox @flox.dev · 28/05/2026
Software should be simple. buff.ly/kX09PWU
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Flox @flox.dev · 26/05/2026
FloxHub login just got two new doors! buff.ly/cLmyeyF
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Flox @flox.dev · 21/05/2026
New tools like DeepSeek TUI show why local AI tooling is heating up: Users want fast, terminal-native harnesses for local and cloud models on NVIDIA CUDA and Apple Silicon. We show how Flox and Nix make the stack—models, servers, CLIs, envs—easier to run, build, and share. buff.ly/RcQlnml
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Flox @flox.dev · 20/05/2026
Fellow.ai hit a familiar scaling problem: “works on my machine” in local dev, CI/prod bugs, costly rework. With Flox, Fellow.ai got reproducible dev environments that work across laptops, CI, and prod—reducing onboarding friction, environment drift, and downstream risk. Full blog in the comments!
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Flox @flox.dev · 18/05/2026
In financial services, today’s cutting-edge ML model becomes tomorrow’s baseline. Flox gives platform teams pinned, declarative GPU runtimes that travel from MacBooks to Slurm, CI, and Kubernetes—cutting runtime drift, image rebuild loops, and audit friction. Read the full article in the comments!
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Flox @flox.dev · 15/05/2026
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Flox @flox.dev · 14/05/2026
#PlanetNix 2026 throwback! Kelsey Hightower on discovering #Nix and realizing there was a fundamentally different way to think about software. buff.ly/9pzlu5c
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Flox @flox.dev · 12/05/2026
fellow.ai used Flox to standardize reproducible environments across dev → CI → prod. The impact: ✔️ Faster engineer onboarding ✔️ Higher developer velocity ✔️ Fewer fire drills ✔️ Less rework ✔️ Reduced release risk Case study in comments.
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Flox @flox.dev · 05/05/2026
We talk a lot about #AI right now, but this keeps coming up in conversations: determinism and reproducibility. If code is being generated by agents, and systems are getting more complex, you need to be able to answer a pretty simple question: what actually ran? Ron on this at PlanetNix 2026 👇
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Flox @flox.dev · 04/05/2026
Security teams don’t need more heroic CVE triage. They need a better source of truth. Learn more about how reproducibility, traceability, and atomic response can reduce firefighting. buff.ly/a75igyP
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Flox @flox.dev · 29/04/2026
New guide! A practical look at: - PyTorch runtimes that work across platforms - modular CUDA environments - build toolchains for R&D and MLOps - reproducible deployment patterns for AI teams buff.ly/M2OgkYX
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Flox @flox.dev · 28/04/2026
A lot of people talk about frontier models. Less about how to run them reliably. New guide on running Gemma 4 and GLM 4.7 Flash locally with Flox using turnkey environments for Ollama and LM Studio. Reproducible local AI workflows across Mac, Linux, and Windows. buff.ly/0NeDdvS
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Flox @flox.dev · 27/04/2026
In capital markets, speed matters. So do control and reproducibility. Learn how companies use Flox + Nix to reduce rebuild overhead, improve traceability, and promote or roll back by pinned reference. A practical look at reproducible AI infrastructure for regulated environments. buff.ly/h6wveJG
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Flox @flox.dev · 23/04/2026
#AI increases the speed and volume of change across your entire software lifecycle. But your accountability stays the same. Flox provides deterministic foundations for probabilistic workloads, so velocity doesn't come at the cost of reliability, security, or compliance. buff.ly/VL4BuvB
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Flox @flox.dev · 22/04/2026
We spoke with Farzan Karimi (Deputy CISO @ Moderna, SunsetCon) about what’s changing in #security right now: - Automated attack simulation is becoming standard - AI agents are taking over low-level pentesting + recon But the real shift? Agentic offense + agentic defense. buff.ly/t2fgYw7
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Flox @flox.dev · 21/04/2026
Dependency resolution, version drift, conflicting toolchains, “works on my machine” → all of that burns tokens and breaks workflows. This is where Flox fits. 🟣 Cross-language package manager 🟣 Works across OS + CPU/GPU architectures 🟣 Deterministic, declarative environments buff.ly/RZtOBET
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Flox @flox.dev · 17/04/2026
The real shift isn’t just “build faster with AI.” It’s zooming out and asking: how does all of this fit together? That’s where having a solid, reproducible foundation starts to make a big difference. Check out the full webinar here 👉 buff.ly/GWafnp6
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Flox @flox.dev · 16/04/2026
Open source only works because people can share work, build on it, and trust that what’s being handed off is something they can actually reproduce. Great conversation from James Bayer and Stormy Peters at PlanetNix 2026 ↓ Watch it here 👉 buff.ly/9q5p19j
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Flox @flox.dev · 15/04/2026
Instead of chasing drift, debugging inconsistencies, or relying on post-hoc fixes, you get deterministic environments that behave the same from dev → CI → production—every time. Velocity without control isn’t a strategy. See how leading teams are building with both → buff.ly/PyyPsmb
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Flox @flox.dev · 13/04/2026
If you’re doing platform engineering, you’ve probably spent more time than you’d like dealing with environment drift. Flox helps you eliminate “works on my machine” issues across the org, while giving you centralized visibility and control across the software lifecycle. buff.ly/geucIkZ
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Flox @flox.dev · 08/04/2026
Kubernetes gives us a declarative model for creating and managing clusters, but the way we build the OCI images our workloads run on is still largely imperative.. Our latest article in the "Kubernetes, Uncontained" series looks at how Flox closes that gap. buff.ly/721c10I
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Flox @flox.dev · 06/04/2026
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and other AI agents/AI coding assistants can use Flox’s MCP server to discover, find specific versions of, and install just the right dependencies, searching among *millions* of historical packages. Read on 👉 buff.ly/3d0IYJe
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Flox @flox.dev · 03/04/2026
See how financial services teams use Flox and #Nix to ship #CUDA ML stacks with reproducible environments, atomic rollbacks, and provable software supply chains. buff.ly/gIbNZrH
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Flox @flox.dev · 02/04/2026
Nix isn’t niche anymore. It’s already being used by teams and companies that care about #reproducibility, control, and getting their environments right. Ron breaks it down here: buff.ly/kneJ0xX
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Flox @flox.dev · 31/03/2026
Most teams adopt Flox in local development first, usually to fix broken dev environments or to get out of the dev container loop. What’s interesting is the pattern that tends to emerge after that. Dive in! buff.ly/kaGAIqR
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Flox @flox.dev · 30/03/2026
We talk a lot about AI right now, but this keeps coming up in conversations: determinism and reproducibility. If code is being generated by agents, and systems are getting more complex, you need to be able to answer a pretty simple question: what actually ran? buff.ly/Gs2wdkZ
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Flox @flox.dev · 23/03/2026
Red Hat published a great piece recently on “Bring Your Own Agent”. In this new blogpost Jeremy Hogan builds on that idea with a simple observation: All of that governance assumes something underneath: the security and stability of the environment the agent actually runs in 👉 buff.ly/OXWQoHr
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Flox @flox.dev · 23/03/2026
We’re at All Things AI this week 👋 Talking to teams building real AI systems, seeing how workflows are changing, and where things are heading! If you’re here too, come find us. Always up for a good convo!
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Flox @flox.dev · 19/03/2026
It’s our last day at NVIDIA GTC and the booth is buzzing ⚡ Come find us at booth #4046 before 2pm to meet the team and chat about building deterministic environments. Show us a Floxhub environment you pushed to get a prize 🎁 See you soon!
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Flox @flox.dev · 18/03/2026
A great night during NVIDIA GTC 🚀 We hosted an evening with ICC and NVIDIA, bringing together a fantastic group across financial services, AI, and HPC. Really strong conversations on where AI infrastructure is heading, and what teams are dealing with day to day. Thanks to everyone who came out!
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