Nix Friday - streaming about Nix every Friday

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Thanks for the feedback <3. Please PM me with brutal feedback, I also want to hear everything that is bad so that I can improve. My ego can take it :smiley:

Today we had zero questions in the chat, which leads me to believe that the new format is more geared towards offline consumption. Like a podcast. There are two more episodes lined-up and I will then decide what to do next.

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I hope I will be able to watch live next week again. But today was not possible, a co worker left the company today and our team went out for a last beer together.

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I know that I was sleeping through the interview. Maybe it would be worthwhile for people to post questions before the interview, so that people have more avenues to ask questions.

I know for the IPFS interview, I probably would have asked, “I have the fortune of having excess storage and compute, whats a good way to share the build outputs from reviewing PRs (specifically from staging branch) with others?”

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Here is today’s recording: https://youtu.be/r3mqQhK-fS0

Next week we will have @Mic92 to talk about all of the good things he is doing.

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Nixology Podcast Series

Another podcast series by @burke for developers new to nix.

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Awesome!
I have it queued after my current NixCon 2019 video .
You should get @grahamc after :slight_smile:

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Here is Friday’s recording with Mic92!

Next week we will have @rickynils on the stream to talk about his newly-released https://nixbuild.net/ service.

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I’ve been enjoying them as podcast format; in fact having an audio only link would be A+
(I’m a father with two kids – so I’m doing podcast style more out of necessity :joy:)

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I am also all for making a podcast out of it. The video does not add much here. It might be still ok for the people talking with each other.

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I’m down if it doesn’t add too much work. Do you know of any good podcast publishing software that I can use?

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Looking at popular Linux podcasts like Linux Unplugged, they all seem to be using hosted solutions that cost ~20USD/month given the current usage.

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I’m also interested in the podcast format.

I currently use a NixOS module in charge of downloading the video from
the youtube RSS feed, re-encoding it to mp3 to finally expose it via a
HTTP server together with a podcast feed. It’s pretty raw as it is, but
it works for me.

I currently hide these under a HTTP auth since I host quite a few other
personal feeds on the machine.

Providing a public Nix Friday podcast feed w/ thumbnail is definitely on
my todo list. I’m up to host that on my infra as a starter. We can then
come up with a CDN-based one if it ends up needed.

If you’re ok with that of course!

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Thanks for the offer, that sounds great!

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I’d recommend https://transistor.fm as it handles all the hard work for a few beers per month :slight_smile:

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Maybe as a workaround the following could also help:

  • NixOS: mpv --video=no 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPq2RS5RJ0'
    • Might also require youtube-dl if mpv doesn’t prefix $PATH
    • For other players youtube-dl can be used as standalone tool to download the audio only
  • Android: NewPipe from F-Droid can play the audio stream in the background (also without downloading the video)
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I wonder if Cloudflare could help with podcast hosting.

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Thanks for all the recommendations <3

Here it today’s recording with Rickard where we talk about nixbuild.net.

Next Friday, I want to go back to the roots and do an interactive session about Flakes. Go over what it is, how to get started and convert an existing repo to it.

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If you have questions regarding podcasts, @makefu is doing a podcasts for many years now and knows all the tooling to do podcasts on Linux/NixOS

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Here is the latest recording:

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There isn’t anything specific planned for tomorrow so I will be working on my own projects, reviewing PRs, and answering questions.

Feel free to join!

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