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Tom Sydney Kerckhove

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Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 21/08/2026
Just published a conversation with @kerckhove.bsky.social of NixCI. I was impressed by the level of engineering. Tom is obviously a testing expert, a huge Nix Freak and always brilliant conversation. So queue it up or listen now. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...
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Chris Short @chrisshort.net · 13/02/2026
The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail #devopsish
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NixCI Blog - The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail
CI is only valuable when it fails. When it passes, it's just overhead: the same outcome you'd get without CI.
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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 17/08/2026
I'm just using GitLab for now. I'm using nix-ci.com and that is one of the supported forges. Codeberg has a pretty strong anti-AI clause (which I think is fine, but I also only have so much time).
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NixCI
Locally-reproducible zero-config hosted continuous integration for Nix
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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 17/08/2026
Okay, my blog is now off GitHub. Code on GitHub, CI/CD on nix-ci.com, hosted on DigitalOcean, powered by #erlang (obviously). chiroptical.dev
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Tom Sydney Kerckhove @kerckhove.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
CI should fail on your machine first blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-03...
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CI should fail on your machine first
When you think of CI, you probably picture a remote server somewhere: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins. You push your code, you wait, and eventually you get a green checkmark or a red X. This is so ...
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Tom Sydney Kerckhove @kerckhove.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The purpose of CI is to fail. blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02...
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The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail
CI is only valuable when it fails. When it passes, it's just overhead: the same outcome you'd get without CI.
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Tom Sydney Kerckhove @kerckhove.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
NixCI fixes this :D
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