In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.
Oligarchen-Linux: Der rasante und problematische Aufstieg von Omarchy
Techkonzerne und CEOs spenden enorme Summen an die nischenorientierte Linux-Distribution Omarchy. Deren extrem rechten Gründer verschafft das viel Einfluss.
nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon
Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka]
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
Please Stop Using `nixos-rebuild switch`
Better practices for safely and reliably deploying and updating NixOS systems.
trynix — boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser
Pick any package from 13 years of nixpkgs history and boot it in an x86_64 Linux VM in your tab. No server anywhere.
Panat on Twitter / X
yeah we use linux at the bookstore how could u tell pic.twitter.com/VpaFPWz75S— Panat (@ptaranat) October 4, 2026
shellbox - Instant Linux Boxes and OCI-backed VMs via SSH
Instant Linux boxes via SSH. Create stock boxes or OCI image-backed VMs. Scale to zero and pay only for what you use.
Any Nix package, live in your browser
tl;dr Try it at https://trynix.dev. Click hello, or python 3.6.2 from 2017, or two eras of hello at once, or a package that exists in no public cache. A Linux machine boots in the tab and you get a shell with those Nix packages on PATH.
I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus | Bas Nijholt
After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.
Sprites - Stateful sandboxes
Persistent, hardware-isolated execution environments for arbitrary code. Run AI agents, untrusted code, and more in secure sandbox environments with checkpoint & restore.
VERT.sh — Free, fast, and awesome file converter
With VERT, you can quickly convert any image, video, audio, and document file. No ads, no tracking, open source, and all processing (other than video) is done on your device.
Tracking NixOS option values and dependencies | oddlama's blog
oddlama's personal web page and blog
Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of
For some reason, during TacoSprint 2026 I decided to see if we could tackle relocatable binaries in Nix.
The Virtual OS Museum
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
Forking is Cool, or: A Unix Shell in Zig, or: Dave Learns How to Fork - ratfactor
In this article, I make a real, working interactive shell written in Zig. Though essentially a toy, it demonstrates the incredible elegance of the fork() system call and is an example of what can be done with absolutely no runtime memory allocations.