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October 25, 2026Episode 1791 hr 58 min

NixCon 2026 Day Ⅰ

Pre-roll transcript: Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. Podcast gear sponsored by nixbuild.net . --- NixCon 2026 Sponsored by nixbuild.net Felix Schröter https://nixos.org/community/commercial-support/ atvari — Software & Cloud Engineering Consulting Diego Turchetto TonioGela Yifei Sun garnix | the nix CI atelier the talk Lisanna Dettwyler nix-scheduler-hook The new .devShell interface for nix develop The panel at NixCon parzivale finix finix talk the tangled talk RTUnreal JanLikar Scrumplex fetchPnpmCache: init alexandru0-dev (Alexandru Nechita) Where would better Windows support in Nix help you? vimjoyer (Yurii Melnychenko) THE BEST WAY TO LEARN NIX - YouTube djacu (Daniel Baker) Community Survey Branding Nix 2.35 Revel are hiring tfc (Jacek Galowicz) Nixcademy NixOS Tests nspawn containers KiaraGrouwstra (kiara) GrimmTheShrimp (Grimmauld) Tools: nix-check-deps (find unnecessary deps) nix-drv-index (find reverse deps "worst offenders") diffoscope (verify dep removal doesn't result in change) Docs: pkg removal broken pkg removal RFC "problem" infrastructure RFC Ongoing removals (non-exhaustive): gtk2 , PCRE , fuse2 , vendored electron , (no libgcrypt tracking issue yet) Searches "needs cleanup"+"tracking" Cleanup PRs (assuming proper tagging) "picking up garbage" project board some use "topic: hygiene" and "topic: old versions" cyclic-pentane (pentane) nix-community/robotnix ForgeFed --- Nixcademy ad transcript: Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology. As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity. Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt. What's worse; morale is affected. But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated. Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz, Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix. It's what they do. So, liberate your Nix experts, prevent technical debt and get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner. Visit nixcademy.com . Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months. They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to. nixcademy.com . Determinate Nix ad transcript: You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work. But — security, compliance, and scale. Enter Determinate Nix. It is the Nix that powers our systems. But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer. Such as: - Parallel evaluation - Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS - Lazy trees - Automatic certificate handling - First-class mobile device management And the list goes on. Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infra such as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality. determinate.systems Post-roll transcript: For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com. For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .

October 19, 2026Episode 1782 min

Bump 2026-10-19

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- home-manager claude-code mutable settings nixos/nftables: switch location of rules to be removed Security Advisory: makeBinaryWrapper: empty PATH segments enable current-directory hijacking Security advisory for Nix and Lix home-manager opencode mutable settings SC election candidates nixos programs.ssh.hosts Full-stack job at Treat Health, Helsinki nixmap home-manager removed deprecated features nixos-version new flags numtide/iets: Fast Nix evaluator and remote-build client in Rust --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .

October 12, 2026Episode 1771 hr 34 min

Nix Freaks 51

Pre-roll transcript: Nix Freaks: Spontaneous topics Passionate discussions Wild takes Programmer humor A Full Time Nix production For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. --- Nix Freaks A build graph that rolls dice | Farid Zakaria’s Blog Nix SC election 2026 Shahar "Dawn" Or (@mightyiam) nomination --- Post-roll transcript: For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com . Nix Freaks takes place weekly. You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call. For details visit fulltimenix.com .

October 12, 2026Episode 1761 min

Bump 2026-10-12

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- services.hydra.adHoc.enable home-manager libreoffice module Frontend Job @ bevuta IT (global, remote) home-manager vscode mutable user settings NixOS and robot infra job, in-person, Massachusetts, Tutor Intelligence Turkish Nix users group is forming SC candidates so far SC election timeline shift Breaking changes to Release Critical packages now restricted --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .

October 10, 2026Episode 1751 hr 23 min

Nix 2.35 with Jonathan Ringer

Pre-roll transcript: Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. Podcast gear sponsored by nixbuild.net . --- https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.35.1/manual/release-notes/rl-2.35.html --- Nixcademy ad transcript: Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology. As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity. Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt. What's worse; morale is affected. But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated. Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz, Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix. It's what they do. So, liberate your Nix experts, prevent technical debt and get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner. Visit nixcademy.com . Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months. They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to. nixcademy.com . Determinate Nix ad transcript: You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work. But — security, compliance, and scale. Enter Determinate Nix. It is the Nix that powers our systems. But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer. Such as: - Parallel evaluation - Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS - Lazy trees - Automatic certificate handling - First-class mobile device management And the list goes on. Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infra such as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality. determinate.systems Post-roll transcript: For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com. For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .

October 6, 2026Episode 1742 hr 0 min

Nix Freaks 50

Pre-roll transcript: Nix Freaks: Spontaneous topics Passionate discussions Wild takes Programmer humor A Full Time Nix production For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. --- Nix Freaks 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘅 (@Malix_Labs) / X vaxry (@vaxryy) / X mightyi.am · Tangled Proposal: Team initiatives, grant program and purpose-bound funding by infinisil · Pull Request #270 · NixOS/org Why fricklerhandwerk changed his mind about flakes (talk) SC election Nominees Nominate @toastal for SC-election-2026 treewide: enable strictDeps and structuredAttrs for various low-level packages by SFrijters · Pull Request #551108 · NixOS/nixpkgs --- Post-roll transcript: For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com . Nix Freaks takes place weekly. You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call. For details visit fulltimenix.com .

October 5, 2026Episode 1732 min

Bump 2026-10-05

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- Nixtamal 2.0.0 26.11 release cycle Nix Workshop in OpenFest, Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov 7-8 NixOS Meetup Darmstadt, Oct 5, 6:30pm Old generated CephX keys vulnerability Nix(OS) Vienna meetup Oct 29, 6pm programs.fish.shellFunctions swift 6 breaking changes NixNL Meetup, December 9, 7pm Boston area Nix Users Group Netherlands government is building a NixOS based desktop services.grafana.declarativePlugins no longer includes default data-sources hydra bump and NixOS module breaking changes Nix Unconference #12, Milan, Oct 17, 9:30 AM home-manager secretspec module Steering Committee candidates so far Prototype Fund started next application round --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .

September 27, 2026Episode 1721 min

Bump 2026-09-27

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- How would better Windows support help you? Breaking config structure change in hostapd CFP: Guix and Nix at Capitole du Libre 2026, Toulouse, France Senior Nix Engineer at Tweag (remote) SecretSpec 0.21: Resolver IPC, external providers, and binary secrets Bay Area Nix Meetup October 2nd 6PM Devenv 2.4: Machines Nix Vegas: Recovering our agency at DEF CON 34 Rewriting Nix in Rust; Casita: content-addressed store --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .

September 21, 2026Episode 1711 hr 33 min

Nix Freaks 49

Pre-roll transcript: Nix Freaks: Spontaneous topics Passionate discussions Wild takes Programmer humor A Full Time Nix production For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. --- Nix Freaks Mic92/repkgs ekala-project/ekapkgs nickel-lang/nickel hydra-ad-hoc by amaanq Nixpkgs AI policy Nix AI policy Nixpkgs vcunat pull requests tomberek/FHSpkgs Jev AI Quint --- Post-roll transcript: For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com . Nix Freaks takes place weekly. You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call. For details visit fulltimenix.com .

September 20, 2026Episode 1700 min

Bump 2026-09-20

Pre-roll transcript: Bump! Nix ecosystem news. --- ensure-printers.service has been replaced with an ExecStartPost hook in cups.service services.k3s and services.rke2: fixed an image updating problem Nix & Rust Meetup Mannheim, Germany, October 6, 6pm NixCon 2026 --- Post-roll transcript: Submit news items! By messaging me. Of course. fulltimenix.com For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .