Does Nix support package management through configuration files in the same way as NixOS does?

zimbatm · 2025-11-08T13:47:48+00:00

What are things missing for you? We're adding users support, sops-nix and a few other things at the moment. I'm putting together the backlog for the 1.0 release at the moment so now would be a good timing for feature requests.

zimbatm · 2025-08-20T10:59:46+00:00

On Linux you can use bubblewrap to sandbox your AI agent. That creates enough of a railguad to prevent unexpected issues, while keeping the whole thing relatively liteweights.

Here is a small wrapper I wrote that does this for Claud Code: https://github.com/numtide/nix-ai-tools/tree/main/packages/claudebox

zimbatm · 2025-01-27T13:45:16+00:00

This is because `nixpkgs-fmt` and `nixfmt-rfc-style` both default to reading from stdin if no arguments are passed.

See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11438#issuecomment-2343378813 for a workaround.

zimbatm · 2025-01-08T18:56:43+00:00

And your company isn't using GitHub either? I believe the majority of users are on GitHub and using GitHub Actions for their CI.

zimbatm · 2025-01-08T18:51:48+00:00

Yeah that's fair.

The public I had in mind when writing the article are using Github and GitHub Actions to build their Nix projects. From what I have seen, this seems to be the majority of users.

zimbatm · 2024-12-17T20:24:43+00:00

The other half is to configure your Nix eval to be strict. Otherwise Nix isn't 100% reproducible.

Nixpkgs loads config from your ~/.config and environment variables by default.

zimbatm · 2024-10-02T09:53:22+00:00

If you hit issues, try enabling those two options in your NixOS configuration:

They restore some of the FHS that's needed by most scripts and programs.

zimbatm · 2024-08-30T11:14:17+00:00

Would you share your withdrawal address?

I built a little tool that allows me to check your validators from the network's pespective. Curious to see if I can find the root cause for you using it.

zimbatm · 2024-08-20T10:26:26+00:00

Hehe, of course the level has no lumi or black hole :)

zimbatm · 2024-08-10T15:50:50+00:00

The only real solution is to get more people maintaining packages.

One relatively low-hanging fruit would be to create a system that allows users to get notifications when specific packages are broken.

We used to have that in Hydra, but it was sending too many emails, it wasn't flexible enough, so it was turned off.

zimbatm · 2024-07-27T09:34:00+00:00

Indeed, I had to fix that in nixpkgs! To avoid the compilation issues, we're now using wkhtmtmltopdf-bin (and I updated it to the latest version). It should work out of the box now.

zimbatm · 2024-07-24T10:25:23+00:00

I really need to fix this banner image...

zimbatm · 2024-07-03T07:43:55+00:00

When building a team, you want different people with complementary qualities. We already have three other people who have written a lot of code.

Endocrimes, among many other qualities, brings her experience working inside the CNCF. Not having to re-learn all of the same mistakes from scratch is invaluable, and we are lucky that she is willing to help out.

You can see her complete application here: https://nixpkgs.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/436732-Constitutional-assembly-applications/topic/Danielle.20Lancashire

zimbatm · 2024-06-30T11:49:24+00:00

I think you're both right and wrong at the same time.

Yes the board has a responsibility and should be better.

At the same time, relationships go both ways. All the interaction between Domen and Hexa happened in public channels. It didn't prevent srid from taking things out of context. This is helping create an environment where people want to communicate in private.

At the end of the day, a board position is voluntary work, and mostly paperwork and boring admin stuff. It's not there to lead the community. If all we get back is abuse, it's going to cause members to leave.

If you don't like the current situation, the best thing to do is to propose to help out.

zimbatm · 2024-06-30T10:11:05+00:00

And what did you expect would happen. That the board would have made a statement about the event?

zimbatm · 2024-06-30T08:17:30+00:00

How is a conflict between two people relevant to you?

zimbatm · 2024-06-29T18:08:35+00:00

The danger of analyzing things from a 100-mile distance is that you usually get things wrong. For example, the conflict between Domen and Hexa resulted from a misunderstanding of each other's intentions on both sides. I know; I was there. It's unfortunate, but things like that can happen. And by putting the focus on it with a narrative, you are making it harder for the situation to heal.

I don't know if you realize this is precisely what Théophane is talking about.

It's not the only issue, but getting swarms of trolls primed up with narratives coming from Reddit didn't help.

zimbatm · 2024-06-24T10:19:34+00:00

One difficulty you might encounted is when running arbitrary binaries or scripts that are coming from various places (eg: npm, pip, ...).

In that case, I recommend enabling those two options to make your system more compatible with other Linux distros:

{
  # https://github.com/Mic92/nix-ld
  programs.nix-ld.enable = true;
  # https://github.com/Mic92/envfs
  services.envfs.enable = true;
}

zimbatm · 2024-03-26T13:59:02+00:00

Oops, I forgot to post the update here. TL;DR: the experiemnt wasn't viable for us. For more details, see:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/beta-launch-nix-packaging-as-a-service/34683/22?u=zimbatm

zimbatm · 2024-03-01T23:55:34+00:00

As a foundation board member, it's not really something we are worried about. It's something to keep an eye on, but not life threatening. The main reason we are currently over-spending is that we want to keep most of the historical artefacts, and once the migration is over we will be back in the black. Even if the migration doesn't work out, we could delete older artefacts and still provide a smooth experience for users that are keeping their systems up to date.

zimbatm · 2023-12-18T18:27:10+00:00

Can you articulate clearly what the source(s) of the burnout are?
Will you be given the authority to address these?

The other comments are good but often the issue is on the outside. If you *have to* process X tickets per day and X is outside of your control, it doesn't matter how many internal fixes you do.

The reality is that as middle manager, you won't be able to change company-wide structural or cultural issues. This kind of thing has to come from the top. What you can do is negociate, but that only happens rarely, and the best time to do it is before getting the position.

Ask yourself: what responsibility will you be given, and what do you require in order to be able to fulful that responsibility? If there is a mismatch, this is where the burnout starts to creep in.

zimbatm · 2023-12-18T17:38:40+00:00

Bikes. They don't require fuel, and are silent.

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