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→ Bi Weekly Nix/NixOS Meetup
Bay Area Nix Enthusiasts! Come join us to talk about how where your are using Nix! Share your experience with beginners and experts alike! Lets share each others amazing discoveries and use cases that we have found for the Nix! See you at Noisebridge for the bi weekly Nix meetup.
I learned a ton from last weeks meetup. Last week we spent some time hacking on projects, some time with open discussion. These have been mostly unstructured but if people have ideas for talks, demos and projects send them our way!
Som topics we discussed included:
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https://atuin.sh/ to manage history
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Self-hosting | Yunohost Documentation beginner friendly distro for self hosting (can nix learn from this)?
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using nix overrides to install alternate versions of packages https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/using/overrides/ (I used to just copy the definition over)
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boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems to run any type of binary on your nixos system
wasm coreutils when? -
GitHub - antithesishq/madness: Madness enables you to easily run the same binary on NixOS and non-NixOS systems easily run non nixos binaries on nix
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rust compilation woes on nix, maybe Use sccache for Rust compilation cache could help?
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GitHub - nlewo/comin: GitOps For NixOS Machines a polling based deployment daemon for your nixos config, has a lot of potential!
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how to share nix cache in ci environments
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A weird nixos test “bug” with flakes
it wasn’t really a bug but a ux thing where a cached evaluation of a nixos vm test made it seem like it wasn’t running. Gained some tacit knowledge here -
Replit — Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
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https://mynixos.com/ web editor for your nixos config
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https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/ SO_REUSEPORT (not nix related, just thought this was super cool!)
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in a nix repl, try running
:l <nixpkgs> #repl -
launch the nix repl in a directory containing flakes and run
:lfto load flakes
AND MUCH MORE!
Join the conversation Wednesday the 24th at Noisebridge 