Shahar "Dawn" Or
@mightyi.am
Author of the Full Time Nix podcast and The Molybdenum Software Show
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
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nix Freaks 23. AI, LLMs, LLM pull requests, code quality, Nixpkgs, collaboration, generated NixOS configs, LLM software packaging, ricing... ricing. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
