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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every NixCon, the same feeling: so excited I can barely sleep. 😄

Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Not everybody in your company has to and most importantly you can coexist with those engineers. Also sorry for long answer. You brought up a topic that I really really have strong opinions on :) And happy nixing

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

But I hope Flox can be that little puzzle piece that enables the adoption of Nix at work, especially in bigger organizations. And if I wouldn't see it myself I wouldn't believe it is possible that a company can use Flox without anybody knowing Nix. I'm not saying you should not learn Nix, but...

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

And just so if it is not obvious, I'm an engineer at Flox, but the stories and constraints when adopting Nix at work are real. It happened to many times that a company tried to adopt Nix and couldn't adopt it fully (eg. their frontend team could bother to learn Nix) they had to abandon it.

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

... just want to have an environment with few packages, then Flox is simple enough for them to figure out this on their own. Without me having to be by their side. In a way, Flox allows me to use Nix at work :)

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

.. and that is where I saw Flox being super useful. I can still do my regular Nix stuff, but when things get hard, eg. custom builds of software, freaking cuda stuff, software with poor upstream packaging, did I say cuda, ... and for those who don't want to learn a new language (Nix) and ...

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

... and with time I start to understand that nix is not for everyone and that is ok. some want only 3 packages to do their work. They don't want to learn a new language to just install 3 packages and they definitely don't want adopt a new religion to be able to do their work.

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

... but when trying to introduce it at work, not everybody gets it. and due to its design you almost have to adopt it as a whole company or the experience is really poor. At times I was frustrated at why an engineer would not want to have a reproducible and declarative environment to work in...

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

... not because nix is so great, but because it exposes me to more software. different software. I can easily play with stuff that usually would not have the time for. and the next moment I'm back in my work environment. but...

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Hey! Not that you asked for my option but here is my experience/option :) I've been using nix for over 15y. loved it, use it daily, everything at home is configured with nix/nixos. i can easily say i'm a better engineer because of it...

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What do chefs and Nix engineers have in common? We obsess over a clean kitchen. 20 years of reproducible builds and it turns out I was accidentally building the best AI strategy the whole time. You can't make AI deterministic, but you can make everything around it predictable. buff.ly/3rLp1U1

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

People saying extend Claude Code through CLI, not MCP. Agree. We see Claude Code looping through commands every day trying to figure out the output, the flags. One surprise: output markdown, not JSON. LLMs read text, and they're way better at markdown. Didn't see that coming.

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AI Agents Are Your New Users - A 2026 CLI Checklist

Your CLI tool's next user might not have hands. A practical 2026 checklist for building agent-friendly command line tools.

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

PlanetNix 2026 done. Almost 2x last year. Still recovering. Even the most hardcore Nix people said we can't expect _everyone_ to learn Nix. Did not see that coming. Nix + Kubernetes was the hot topic. Anthropic, Nvidia, Spotify all running Nix in prod. Videos coming soon. planetnix.com

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PlanetNix 2026

PlanetNix 2026 - A two-day conference for Nix builders. March 5-6, 2026 in Pasadena, CA. Join developers, contributors, and teams using Nix in production for talks, workshops, and hands-on learning.

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Flox @flox.dev · 25/02/2026

You’ve learned Nix and you see the power 👉 Deterministic builds, reproducibility, no more “works on my machine.” @rok-garbas.bsky.social will show you how to bring Nix into your team’s workflow without asking anyone to learn Nix. Join us! buff.ly/KYMiX4N

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

You know Nix. Your team doesn't. You've tried the pitch. They went back to Docker. Giving a workshop at PlanetNix: Give your team Flox. They get reproducible envs. You keep your flakes. Everyone wins. Some will learn Nix eventually. Some won't. Both fine. planetnix.com

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Wispr Flow just showed me what I said most in 2025. Go-to phrase: "Let's commit the changes" In Ghostty: "Please review and commit" I was hoping it would say "talking to my wife." Nope. Just git.

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

~12 hours for PlanetNix CFP. If you use Nix you probably hate talking about it. Never bring it up at work. Definitely don't submit a talk. Unless...? March 5-6 in Pasadena, co-located with SCaLE. Good conversations, great burritos (it's LA). planetnix.com

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PlanetNix 2026

PlanetNix 2026 - A two-day conference for Nix builders. March 5-6, 2026 in Pasadena, CA. Join developers, contributors, and teams using Nix in production for talks, workshops, and hands-on learning.

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Internet, please be kind, this is the first time for me 😊 ... and yes, let's learn hashtag#Flox and hashtag#Nix together

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I had to skip last year's NixCon last moment, but not skipping it this year :)

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Flox @flox.dev · 08/07/2025

We recently launched something big at Flox: Build & Publish 🎉 ✅ Build in a clean, reproducible environment 📦 Package it with everything it needs 🚀 Run it anywhere Ready to dive in? Full walkthrough: buff.ly/ARJ3TSH 15-min demo (Go project): buff.ly/kBYDWUi Quick docs tutorial: buff.ly/KrFf1yr

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Flox @flox.dev · 10/06/2025

We're thrilled to be part of Redpoint’s 2025 InfraRed 100 list, which highlights 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure. Proud to be in such outstanding company! buff.ly/OFIborH

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Flox @flox.dev · 11/04/2025

What makes Nix stick? Ron Efroni shares how the Nix community became one of the most helpful and passionate in open source. We go deeper in Nix in the Wild, where devs share how they’re using Nix in real-world projects. buff.ly/USSNVuP #nix #opensource

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Flox @flox.dev · 09/04/2025

Sometimes writing code isn’t the hardest part. It’s dealing with everything *around* it. ❌ Different Node/Python versions. ❌ Piles of dependencies. ❌ READMEs that *almost* work (but don’t). With Flox, you can set up environments in seconds. Watch the full video here: buff.ly/UnyNHBD #flox

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Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It is not "or" its "and/or" 😆

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Flox @flox.dev · 31/01/2025

In the real world, Flox and #containers neatly 🧩 complement one another. The real magic ✨ lies in using Flox inside containers to fetch & manage runtime dependencies dynamically. This keeps images minimal 📦 + guarantees reproducibility 🔁. Learn more: [buff.ly/4hetTrW]

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Flox @flox.dev · 03/01/2025

We love hearing stories on how simple it is to streamline your workflows and explore Nix via Flox ++ the positive experience with our friends over at Ghostty ❤️ kenichishibata.medium.com/my-3-christm...

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 11/12/2024

Remember that experiment of using @flox.dev to replace Homebrew? Now it's official. flox.dev/docs/tutoria...

Homebrew migration guide

Flox is an environment and package manager all in one. Using Flox, you can create discrete environments containing packages from the Flox Catalog.

Flox can replace Homebrew entirely, or they can be used together.

This guide explains how to introduce Flox into environments where Homebrew is currently being used, either as a replacement or an addition. It introduces new concepts and proposes a basic procedure for mapping packages.

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