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Time to grow up and host my own instance. Moving to @zimbatm@zimbatm.com FYI: Gotosocial makes it easy to host your own instance.Source:...

Time to grow up and host my own instance. Moving to @zimbatm@zimbatm.com

FYI: Gotosocial makes it easy to host your own instance.
Source: https://github.com/zimbatm/home/blob/main/nixosModules/gotosocial.nix

Two more sponsors and we can start offering ARM 64 builders to the nix-community. Think of better support for embedded and low-power server...

Two more sponsors and we can start offering ARM 64 builders to the nix-community.

Think of better support for embedded and low-power server architectures.

https://opencollective.com/nix-community

Just got a patch for using direnv on z/OS🤣I love it.https://github.com/direnv/direnv/pull/1094

Just got a patch for using direnv on z/OS🤣I love it.
https://github.com/direnv/direnv/pull/1094

When the sample config in the doc is in YAML, and the NixOS module takes Nix settings.> Dear ChatGPT, can you convert this YAML code to...

When the sample config in the doc is in YAML, and the NixOS module takes Nix settings.

> Dear ChatGPT, can you convert this YAML code to Nix:

Do you know about PEP 668?I'm a bit excited that soon users will get that kind of feedback whenever they try to `pip install` on the...

Do you know about PEP 668?

I'm a bit excited that soon users will get that kind of feedback whenever they try to `pip install` on the system level:

Here are the slides for today's talk at the Paris NixOS...

Here are the slides for today's talk at the Paris NixOS meetup!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U-mbYWD0BxEm7KSqaszRLB5NPkYRanz3J1pw4kj2Hho/edit?usp=sharing

Shoutout to @qyliss for creating https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html - I use this tool at least once a week to determine if some PRs are...

Shoutout to @qyliss for creating https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html - I use this tool at least once a week to determine if some PRs are available in nixos-unstable.

The outcome of all of this research is also cool. It's a solution towards shipping OpenGL programs that were built with Nix, to other...

The outcome of all of this research is also cool. It's a solution towards shipping OpenGL programs that were built with Nix, to other Linux distros: https://github.com/numtide/nix-gl-host
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RT @ninjatrappeur
I wrote a blog post diving into the OpenGL, NixOS and #Nix on a foreign Linux distribution integration hell.

https://alternativebit.fr/posts/nixos/nix-opengl-and-ubuntu-integration-nightmare/
https://twitter.com/ninjatrappeur/status/1648980268689117187

RT @ninjatrappeurI wrote a blog post diving into the OpenGL, NixOS and #Nix on a foreign Linux distribution integration...

RT @ninjatrappeur
I wrote a blog post diving into the OpenGL, NixOS and #Nix on a foreign Linux distribution integration hell.

https://alternativebit.fr/posts/nixos/nix-opengl-and-ubuntu-integration-nightmare/

Silly prediction; with this change, GitHub has become SourceForge.

Silly prediction; with this change, GitHub has become SourceForge.

I got it down from 2500 to 250 modules. It's not that much faster, but takes 3.4GB instead of 4.4GB of RAM to evaluate the whole test...

I got it down from 2500 to 250 modules. It's not that much faster, but takes 3.4GB instead of 4.4GB of RAM to evaluate the whole test suite.

There are some circular dependencies, so things can be shrunken further.

https://github.com/numtide/srvos/commit/fff3fc4f8174d247281b14ae8d6d8eb88ce75bf1

I predict that once I'm done, the NixOS evaluation will take half the memory and half of the time.Let's see if I'm right :)

I predict that once I'm done, the NixOS evaluation will take half the memory and half of the time.

Let's see if I'm right :)

Weekend project: brute-forcing the minimal list of NixOS modules to load for my config to work:

Weekend project: brute-forcing the minimal list of NixOS modules to load for my config to work:

Let's catch up in Paris, 27 April: https://mobilizon.fr/events/ebe86d0c-44f9-4ccb-a7fa-607f96c9600f

Let's catch up in Paris, 27 April: https://mobilizon.fr/events/ebe86d0c-44f9-4ccb-a7fa-607f96c9600f

Things that I have in mind for this...

Things that I have in mind for this role:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-meeting-minutes-february-14-2023/25630/2?u=zimbatm
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RT @ronefroni
@nixos_org Foundation Key Announcements - Feb 2023 Edition
> @zimbatm joins the board as observer
> Initial work on yearly budget will be shared
> Approved potential first hire scope in the foundation
> Nix grant/funding program kick off
Full recap below 👇
https://twitter.com/ronefroni/status/1627707059209900033

Hitting rate limits with Nix in GitHub Actions?Thanks to supersandro for inspiring this fix...

Hitting rate limits with Nix in GitHub Actions?

Thanks to supersandro for inspiring this fix :)

https://github.com/cachix/install-nix-action/pull/157

See you at FOSDEM! I'm looking forward to meeting both old and new people and exchanging lots of ideas.

See you at FOSDEM! I'm looking forward to meeting both old and new people and exchanging lots of ideas.

This email made me happy. Such a nice little touch from @flydotio

This email made me happy. Such a nice little touch from @flydotio

I noticed that https://gist.github.com/zimbatm is a lot like Twitter. You can post new entries. People can star and reply. Put a frontend on...

I noticed that https://gist.github.com/zimbatm is a lot like Twitter. You can post new entries. People can star and reply. Put a frontend on top and have an infrastructure for your blog.

New post! the NixOS "settings" option: when and how to use...

New post! the NixOS "settings" option: when and how to use it:
https://zimbatm.com/notes/the-nixos-settings-option-when-and-how-to-use-it