iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 07/09/2026

It seems like Tim DeHerrera has been working on an alternative to Nix. Did he get it right? Would you be able to tell? What does it look like? Did I understand any of it? Will you join Tim in founding formal trust in the software supply chain? fulltimenix.com/episodes/is-...

001

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 01/09/2026

If you didn't know, you're about to that August 6, 7, 8, 9 was DEF CON 34 and Nixers were definitely present. Join Alex, Chris, Morgan, Jared, Dan, Tristan and I for a recounting of Nix Vegas, the official Nix space at the latest DEF CON. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

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...

011

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 03/08/2026

fulltimenix.com/episodes/det... An episode with Determinate Systems co-founders Graham Christensen and Eelco Dolstra, who is the original author of Nix. If you are curious about Determinate Systems, their products, services, and the co-founders Graham and Eelco, please hit play and I hope you enjoy

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 22/07/2026

SaltSprint 2026 took place in June, organized by Flying Circus and sponsored by secunet and Flying Circus. Dean Eckert, co-founder of Red Oak, in his kindness joined me and we discussed what he and others did during those four exciting days in Halle, Germany. fulltimenix.com/episodes/sal...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 14/07/2026

fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix... Since January, NixOS test nodes can be nspawn containers, thanks to initially Clan and later on Jeremy Fleischman and Kierán Meinhardt, sponsored by Applicative Systems, home of Nixcademy. Join me for a deep dive with Jeremy Fleischman.

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 10/06/2026

With Ankit Kumar Honey, senior engineering manager at GitHub, working on the Dependabot ecosystem, and Jamie Magee, principal software engineer at Microsoft, focusing on open source software and supply chain security, who contributed the Dependabot Nix support. fulltimenix.com/episodes/dep...

131

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 02/06/2026

but try Nushell. You won't regret it.

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 16/05/2026

nix-effects: A pure Nix toolkit for effectful programs, typed validation, verified boundaries, and description-backed DSLs. I have asked the author of nix-effects, Mika Bohinen, all of the dumbest questions and, who knows, maybe even some good ones. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 08/05/2026

Ocean Sprint 2026 took place in April. While I was not there myself, I did have remote conversations with several participants during the sprint. To learn of their experiences and what they were working on check out this latest episode, Ocean Sprint 2026. fulltimenix.com/episodes/oce...

001

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 08/05/2026

You drive with that plate?

100

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 08/05/2026

A Nix Freaks 29 with crertel, Tristan Ross, and jonringer. Nix documentation and the tooling for it, Nixpkgs review tooling or a deficiency of it? A caps lock indicator adventure... the need to prevent electronics from being antennas, a Dart runtime in Rust and more fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 03/05/2026

Nix is almost too good to be true. Isolation, libraries coexisting, transparent binary cache and software that just works. But is that always the case? Join us for a discussion about libGL and find out what anomalies lurk in the dark depths of our operating systems. fulltimenix.com/episodes/the...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 01/05/2026

In Nix Freaks 28 mschwaig, kiara, toastal and I discussed whatever Nix things were on our minds. Public interfaces: flake outputs versus vanilla overlays, NixOS in ZFS home encryption (which sounds cool to me), mirrored boot partitions and more. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 27/04/2026

unflake and The Great Nix Flake Check; the author, Max, and toastal to ask smart questions. unflake is an alternative dependency resolver and runtime for Nix flakes. Max ran a check on more than 7,000 flakes and shared insights and tidbits with us. The Lock-Files. fulltimenix.com/episodes/unf...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 27/04/2026

Nix Freaks 27: rxRust, low-level computer-ing things that I don't understand, gaming, Arm PC when? Hardware, cooling, power supply, cars, VMs, containers, micro VMs. Tune in. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 16/04/2026

Look, my post got engaged with! Oh, it's generated... 🤣

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 15/04/2026

Nix Freaks 26. kiara, Jacek, Aaron, toastal and I, Ocean Sprint, which is happening right this moment, ReactiveX, reactive programming, UI, rxrust, TypeScript, Rust, and other languages, shell sandboxing, The NixOS Test Runner and more. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

120

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 09/04/2026

What did Nix Freaks 25 have? Meetups, NixOS variants, compilers, their features, Nixpkgs splicing which I don’t yet understand, derivation closures, ricing, gaming, robots, fasting, food and beer. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 02/04/2026

Nix Freaks 24: Jacek, kiara, ibizaman and toastal talked about Nixtamal, Nixcademy, derivation outputs, channels, introducing Nix in an organization, service contracts and more. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 30/03/2026

Nix Freaks 23. AI, LLMs, LLM pull requests, code quality, Nixpkgs, collaboration, generated NixOS configs, LLM software packaging, ricing... ricing. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 24/03/2026

devenv 2.0. It's interactive now. It's a TUI. Instead of waiting for your dev shell to be ready, you can do whatever you like while you see the progress. A process manager, MCP server, port allocation and other features. Join me and Domen. Human Slop Only. fulltimenix.com/episodes/dev...

020

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 23/03/2026

Another Nix Sprint is coming up. It is called SaltSprint. Starts June 22nd, Halle, Germany. I had a chat with Flying Circus co-founder Christian Theune, the organizer. So what are you waiting for? Apply. Don't even listen to this episode. Just apply at saltsprint.org fulltimenix.com/episodes/sal...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 22/03/2026

Nix Freaks 22. A convo about the LibGL anomaly, a convo about coding agents, generated pull requests and Nix code, Planet Nix and NixCon, the political decisions, the rejection of sponsors, tomberek, Steering Committee and Nix Team member, shared his perspective. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

030

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 20/03/2026

So you want to learn what happened at Aurora Sprints last month? I got you. Two participants, one organizer, Only on Full Time Nix. Uncensored. fulltimenix.com/episodes/aur...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 15/03/2026

What does Nix 2.34 have? Some bug fixes as usual, some features as usual. The highlights are a new Nix installer that is in beta. It's written in Rust and a new linting infrastructure. If you want to learn more, check out the podcast episode. Arian is an expert. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

020

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 12/03/2026

Nix Freaks 21. We talked about events, user groups, PlanetNix, nixos-facter, the idea of a sandboxed dev shell—please make me one, please—soft-shell crabs, soft-shell turtles, flack, parallel evaluation of nix-lang, WebAssembly in nix-lang and more! It was a fun one! fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 08/03/2026

I daily drive this phone. I use various Android apps. Should I do this?

110

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 08/03/2026

Nix Freaks 20. Deephack, NobbZ, Jacek and kiara. NobbZ shared a bit of the history behind his unofficial NixOS Discord. Historic computers, OSs, Nix anti-patterns, other books, future of Nix lang, static analysis, the module system, Fediversity and Nix’s in GSoC. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 24/02/2026

Nix Freaks 19! We touched upon a bunch of things in a short time: ZFS, server and desktop monitoring, Nix and WASM, Nix at DEF CON, links to some interesting talks and articles and open source projects. Nix related, of course. And like Beyonce said, listen. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

020

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 20/02/2026

NovaCustom, a computer manufacter, announced recently; they support NixOS on their laptops and mini PCs. I got the founder on a recording, had a chat, what does it mean for NovaCustom to support NixOS? What is NixOS support for a computer? How did they achieve this? fulltimenix.com/episodes/nov...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 19/02/2026

Nix Freaks 18 with toastal and kiara. I was also there. We talked about input pinning, some mad workarounds, Nixtamal, flake-parts and the dendritic pattern. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 18/02/2026

Nixtamal; Fulfilling input pinning for Nix without flakes. A conversation with the author, toastal, & the author of niv (to ask smart questions). Host, forge & VCS agnostic. Eval-time & build-time fetchers. Supports mirrors! Custom freshness commands. And more. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

020

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 13/02/2026

What do we have in Nix Freaks 17? forks and the health of the ecosystem, scalability of flakes, the potential for introducing Rust into OG Nix, evaluation, dynamic derivations, overlays and more. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

010

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 08/02/2026

I think the dendritic pattern is most worth studying. And it's probably the most well documented. github.com/mightyiam/de... See the various links in there.

100

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 08/02/2026

Congrats! Well, my own infra repo does not have any abstractions with regards to configurations. It's just flake-parts. github.com/mightyiam/in... Have any questions?

github.com

GitHub - mightyiam/infra: Shahar "Dawn" Or's Nix-powered "IT infrastructure" repository

Shahar "Dawn" Or's Nix-powered "IT infrastructure" repository - mightyiam/infra

100

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 06/02/2026

Just published; Nix Freaks 16. Among other things, we've talked about FOSDEM, open source, NixOS container tests and the flake situation. Yeah. Check us out. hear us out. Enjoy. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 02/02/2026

Just published, Nix Freaks 15 where we have discussed ecosystem news. Keywords: ZFS, SBOM, disko, Fediversity, Netboot, Nix Rust bindings. Listen in. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

011

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 28/01/2026

fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 13/01/2026

fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 06/01/2026

fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...

000

Shahar "Dawn" Or @mightyi.am · 30/12/2025

fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...