Full Time Nix: Daily Summaries Delivered

Nix Freaks 53

Pre-roll transcript:Nix Freaks:Spontaneous topicsPassionate discussionsWild takesProgrammer humorA Full Time Nix productionFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.---Nix FreaksfinixekapkgsRepology requirementssystemd is becoming kernel boundThaiger Sprint November 2025 episodeAurora Sprint 2026 episodevic (Victor Borja) ---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.

Bump 2026-11-02

Pre-roll transcript:Bump! Nix ecosystem news.---constitution: add referendumsWeekly/biweekly hangout by lassulus@domenkozar nominated for Nixpkgs commit bit (episodes featuring him)ThaigerSprint January 2027 (Thaiger Sprint November 2025)nixos/sshd: mldsa44-ed25519 host key by default ---Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.fulltimenix.comFor 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Nix Freaks 52

Bump 2026-10-28

Pre-roll transcript:Bump! Nix ecosystem news.---pkgs.php now points to v8.5Nix Meetup Cologne, Germany October 28, 19:15home-manager claude-code config dir changeNix Community Survey 2026NixOS workshop, Barcelona, Nov 18, 3pmnixos scripted stage 1 removedgradient: initDiscussion on getting the Nix daemon out of the business of authenticationsystemd is becoming kernel boundNix at FOSDEM 2027 - looking for devroom co-managerVoting has restarted on the third Steering Committee electionnixos/tests: implement X11 for nspawn, episode on NixOS tests, episode on nspawn container testsperlPackages.BerkeleyDB downgrade issueJobs at Aykua Health — Cambridge, UK (hybrid)Breaking changes to all packages except desktop environments are now restrictedpodman breaking changesforgejo breaking changesJob at VirtusLabRocky Mountain Linux Fest, Denver, Colorado, August 7 2027A Nix talk at the Pittsburgh Tech Fest, October 30Noisebridge Nix Night, Oct 28 7pm, San Francisco ---Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.fulltimenix.comFor 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

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 2026Sponsored by nixbuild.netFelix Schröterhttps://nixos.org/community/commercial-support/atvari — Software & Cloud Engineering ConsultingDiego TurchettoTonioGelaYifei Sungarnix | the nix CIatelierthe talkLisanna Dettwylernix-scheduler-hookThe new .devShell interface for nix developThe panel at NixConparzivalefinixfinix talkthe tangled talkRTUnrealJanLikarScrumplexfetchPnpmCache: initalexandru0-dev (Alexandru Nechita)Where would better Windows support in Nix help you?vimjoyer (Yurii Melnychenko)THE BEST WAY TO LEARN NIX - YouTubedjacu (Daniel Baker)Community SurveyBrandingNix 2.35Revel are hiringtfc (Jacek Galowicz)NixcademyNixOS Tests nspawn containersKiaraGrouwstra (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 removalbroken pkg removal RFC"problem" infrastructure RFCOngoing 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 boardsome use "topic: hygiene" and "topic: old versions"cyclic-pent

Bump 2026-10-19

Pre-roll transcript:Bump! Nix ecosystem news.---home-manager claude-code mutable settingsnixos/nftables: switch location of rules to be removedSecurity Advisory: makeBinaryWrapper: empty PATH segments enable current-directory hijackingSecurity advisory for Nix and Lixhome-manager opencode mutable settingsSC election candidatesnixos programs.ssh.hostsFull-stack job at Treat Health, Helsinkinixmaphome-manager removed deprecated featuresnixos-version new flagsnumtide/iets: Fast Nix evaluator and remote-build client in Rust ---Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.fulltimenix.comFor 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Nix Freaks 51

Pre-roll transcript:Nix Freaks:Spontaneous topicsPassionate discussionsWild takesProgrammer humorA Full Time Nix productionFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.---Nix FreaksA build graph that rolls dice | Farid Zakaria’s BlogNix SC election 2026Shahar "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.

Bump 2026-10-12

Pre-roll transcript:Bump! Nix ecosystem news.---services.hydra.adHoc.enablehome-manager libreoffice moduleFrontend Job @ bevuta IT (global, remote)home-manager vscode mutable user settingsNixOS and robot infra job, in-person, Massachusetts, Tutor IntelligenceTurkish Nix users group is formingSC candidates so farSC election timeline shiftBreaking changes to Release Critical packages now restricted ---Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.fulltimenix.comFor 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.