Rok Garbas
@rok-garbas.bsky.social
Engineer at Flox | 20+ yrs DevOps & Release Eng | Ex-Mozilla | I build tools then help people use them | Nix community contributor | Conference speaker
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
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.
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.
garbas.si
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
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.
planetnix.com
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
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
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.
~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
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.
planetnix.com
Michael Stahnke is the VP of Engineering at @flox.dev. He joins @kball.llc to talk about Flox, building on top of Nix, software security, and much more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/08/f...
Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily
Modern software development is more complex than ever. Teams work across different operating systems, chip architectures, and cloud environments, each with its own dependency quirks and version mismat...
softwareengineeringdaily.com
Internet, please be kind, this is the first time for me 😊 ... and yes, let's learn hashtag#Flox and hashtag#Nix together
Flox@flox.dev · 11mo agoWhen things just work → developers can focus on building. That’s why Rok (Flox engineer, Nix user, 20+ years in software) is kicking off a new series on Flox! In Rok’s words: things just work. This is just the teaser 🚀 Stay tuned, more Flox videos coming soon!
I had to skip last year's NixCon last moment, but not skipping it this year :)
Flox@flox.dev · last yr.🎉 Flox is a Diamond Sponsor of NixCon 2025! We’re excited to support the Nix community at this year’s event in Switzerland <3 NixCon is where engineers, maintainers, and contributors come together to share ideas, tools, and what’s next for Nix. Can’t wait to see you there!
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
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
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
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
Brian wrote a post on blueprint: bmcgee.ie/posts/2025/0... The project is coming along quite nicely.
Nix: structuring Flakes with Blueprint
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 ...
bmcgee.ie
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: [https://buff.ly/4hetTrW]
Anyone planning on coming to Planet Nix in March? planetnix.com #nixos
Planet Nix: March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA
A conference for contributors and users of Nix and NixOS.
planetnix.com
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...
Remember that experiment of using @flox.dev to replace Homebrew? Now it's official. flox.dev/docs/tutoria...
