The Nix Hour, a weekly Nix Q&A Lecture by Tweag

Some updates:

  • I have created Issues · tweag/nix-hour · GitHub to track questions for the Nix hour, feel free to open issues for any questions you’d like to be talked about during the weekly session, and :+1: on the existing issues you’re most interested in!
  • We’ll use Jitsi for the session instead: Jitsi Meet
  • With Jitsi, we can now also live-stream directly to YouTube! Feel free to ask questions in the live stream chat during the session. The recordings will continue to be added to the Nix Hour Playlist.

The first live-streamed Nix Hour will be this Thursday 14:00 CEST.

(Note that I also updated the top-most post with this information)

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The next Nix hour will be tomorrow, I’m now scheduling the live streams ahead of time, making it much easier to see when they happen, here’s the one for tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpUHb-GagBE

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The next Nix Hour will be this Thursday, 14:00 CET in this jitsi meet or live on YouTube. Anybody is welcome to join and ask questions about Nix or just listen in, and if nobody has a question we’ll continue going through the nix-hour issues with the most :+1: (at least the ones I can answer!). So feel free to :+1: the existing ones or even add your own issue! All sessions are also recorded live and available on the YouTube playlist. Some time after the session I’ll also be annotating it with tags in the title and timestamps.

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Hi @Infinisil , thank you heaps for the Nix Hour sessions. I watch it all the time from recording. In addition to the explanations you provide, it is very interesting to see how you work with the source code in general.

Thank you !

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The next Nix Hour will be this Thursday, 14:00 CET in this jitsi meet or live on YouTube. Anybody is welcome to join and ask questions about Nix or just listen in, and if nobody has a question we’ll continue going through the nix-hour issues with the most :+1: (at least the ones I can answer!). So feel free to :+1: the existing ones or even add your own issue! All sessions are also recorded live and available on the YouTube playlist. Some time after the session I’ll also be annotating it with tags in the title and timestamps.

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The next Nix Hour will be this Thursday, 14:00 CET in this jitsi meet or live on YouTube. Anybody is welcome to join and ask questions about Nix or just listen in, and if nobody has a question we’ll continue going through the nix-hour issues with the most :+1: (at least the ones I can answer!). So feel free to :+1: the existing ones or even add your own issue! All sessions are also recorded live and available on the YouTube playlist. Some time after the session I’ll also be annotating it with tags in the title and timestamps.

Feels a bit weird to always just copy the same text, I just want to announce that the next one again happens this Thursday, same time as always, links are above :slight_smile:

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Next Nix Hour is tomorrow on Thursday, 14:00 CET as always, feel free to join to listen in or ask any Nix questions you might have! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZjOzOHb2ow

The next Nix Hour is tomorrow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKl8Jue4qM), same time. However I just opened a poll here to potentially find a better time for future sessions, please add your vote if you’re interested!

The next Nix Hour is tomorrow (https://www.youtube.com/live/Gj5LrUmDzHM), still at the same time as before, 14:00 CET. I will close the above poll before the session though and announce the new time based on the results.

The new time is decided now, it’s going to be Monday Tuesday, 19:00 CEST! As also announced in the last Nix Hour, let’s take a week break though, the next session will be in a week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQJE4ZxD3cc

As always, I encourage you to join the meetings (meeting link) to ask questions directly. But you can also ask questions in advance by opening issues in GitHub - tweag/nix-hour: Questions for the weekly Nix Hour :slight_smile:

Made a mistake, it’s Tuesday, not Monday! I corrected the above message :slight_smile:

Since nobody joined the last Nix Hour, despite polling for a better time, and from some feedback on YouTube, I decided to create a Matrix channel for notifications. So if you want to get a notification about an hour before the Nix Hour starts, join #nix-hour:matrix.org! This room can also be used for any Nix Hour-related discussions or feedback.

Since we have a Matrix room now, I’m not sure if I should continue posting these messages here to inform about the Nix Hour, but for today I still will:

The next Nix Hour is tomorrow, Tuesday 19:00 CEST in this Jitsi or live on YouTube.

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The Nix Hour has continued weekly since the last message, and the next one will be today in ~1.5 hours at 19:00 CEST in this Jitsi (best if you have questions yourself) or live on YouTube if you just want to listen in!

Due to me going on a vacation, the following two Nix Hours will be skipped however, leading to a timeline like this:

  • 2023-06-20 (today): Nix Hour #34
  • 2023-06-27: Skipped!
  • 2023-07-04: Skipped!
  • 2023-07-11: Nix Hour #35

In case you’re wondering where the Nix Hour went next week and when it is expected to be back :slight_smile:

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We’re trying to find a new time for the Nix Hour. If you’re interested to join, especially if you haven’t been able so far, please vote in this post:

The timeline for the next few Nix hours is as follows:

  • Tuesday, 2023-08-01T17:00:00Z: Nix Hour #38
  • Tuesday, 2023-08-08T17:00:00Z: Nix Hour #39
  • Thursday, 2023-08-16T22:00:00Z, time to be decided based on the above poll: Nix Hour #40

The new time is decided, it will be Thursdays 18:00 CEST, the next one being

  • Nix Hour #40 on 2023-08-17T16:00:00Z
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Just wanted to drop in and say that this is really helpful. Watching you finding answers helped me to answer a lot things that come up day to day.

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Happy to help!

Just a note that we will not have a Nix Hour next week since I’ll be traveling for Nixcon.
But I will have a lightning talk at Nixcon to talk about the Nix Hour!
Edit: I felt sick and couldn’t have the talk, maybe next year :slight_smile:

So we expect the next Nix Hours to be like this:

  • 2023-08-31T16:00:00Z: Nix Hour #42 (meeting for questions, stream)
  • 2023-09-07T16:00:00Z : Skipped for Nixcon.
  • 2023-09-14T16:00:00Z : Nix Hour #43
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Because we keep running into various problems with the main Jitsi instance, I decided to switch to a different instance this week, https://meet.init7.net/. The instance is hosted by a very loved and techy ISP provider in Switzerland, so not only do I trust them, but it’s also very close to me, so the delay should be smaller too!
In addition to more stability, it also won’t require any authentication, and there won’t be a message about the room name being insecure.

New meeting link: https://meet.zrh.init7.net/nix-hour
Next meeting time: 2023-09-14T16:00:00Z
YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/T79B4t80QZ4

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Quick announcement: Today’s Nix hour is in ~15 minutes (2023-11-16T17:00:00Z), but we’ll switch it up a bit this time:

  • The first 30 minutes won’t be recorded but I’ll hang out in the meeting, feel free to join, ask and chat however :slight_smile:
  • The second 30 minutes will be streamed/recorded here, and I’ll try to build a small lecture about some question that came up earlier during that

Let’s see how it goes!

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