A week of Nix hacking near the beach

Fixes #338231. Follow-up to #506578 and #506588 (already merged). @zimbatm's automated research tooling flagged this commit as a likely performance win. I was tasked to validate the numbers and...

Currently, even if there are no changes --write will still write to file, changing its last modified timestamp. This causes a problem for things that monitors file modification by that timestamp. F...

Nix access-token management tool. Contribute to numtide/nix-auth development by creating an account on GitHub.

treefmt nix configuration. Contribute to numtide/treefmt-nix development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hey everyone, I’m excited to introduce a new service to the NixOS community: NixOS Mediation. Mediation is a valuable tool for resolving disputes and conflicts in a structured and constructive way. ...

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Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

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I’m sitting here, in an Airbnb in Brussels, after a long weekend of talking tech and drinking beer during my first FOSSDEM. Seems like as good a time as any then to try and restart my regular posting ...

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Some unfortunate decisions by GitHub have forced us to wind down free caching with the Magic Nix Cache by 1 February 2025

Hi, I’m pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.26. It is available from https://releases.nixos.org/?prefix=nix/nix-2.26.0/ . Support for relative path inputs #10089 Flakes can now refer to...

treefmt nix configuration. Contribute to numtide/treefmt-nix development by creating an account on GitHub.

NixOS is just too easy to deploy to the wrong host. Eg: nixos-rebuild --flake .#wronghostname --target-host root@otherhost switch It happened to me a few times, and when I started talking about it...

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Motivation This is a papercut that has been bugging me for a while. :lf . is fine but doesn't show you what variables it adds to the context. And builtins.getFlake (toString ./.) works but gets...

Is something I said on Bluesky last week. Here is a longer take on this:

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I split preparation for this into smaller PRs, after feedback: make-disk-image: Allow passing of image baseName #359326 image/images: init #359328 virtualisation: Use system.build.image, normalize...

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All commits included in this release: 1.10.1...1.10.2

Hello, we’re glad to announce NixOS 24.11 Vicuña was released earlier today. Release Announcement Release Notes Upgrade Instructions Downloads We saw quite a significant increase of contributors be...

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