The Asahi NixOS Experience

nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon

Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka]

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.

Please Stop Using `nixos-rebuild switch`

Better practices for safely and reliably deploying and updating NixOS systems.

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

Tracking NixOS option values and dependencies | oddlama's blog

oddlama's personal web page and blog

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? | natkr's ramblings

In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.

My Journey from macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy

After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.

Disaster preparedness in Japan: Apps, websites, etc. - aiueo

For English speakers living or traveling in Japan (and other languages, to a more limited extent)

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes

So I've been job hunting lately. Reading job postings, doing interviews, talking to engineering teams at like a dozen companies. And I noticed...

syndicating radio with evil atproto - nekomimi

xrpcs are cool i think

arnoldrobbins/LinuxByExample-2e

Contribute to arnoldrobbins/LinuxByExample-2e development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.

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.

Nix Is Right. Its Cost Is Not.

The case for composition-addressed systems.

Vibe Maintainer

Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…