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Pre-roll transcript:Nix Freaks:Spontaneous topicsPassionate discussionsWild takesProgrammer humorA Full Time Nix productionFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.---Nix FreaksfinixekapkgsRepology requirementssystemd is becoming kernel boundThaiger Sprint November 2025 episodeAurora Sprint 2026 episodevic (Victor Borja) ---Post-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.Nix Freaks takes place weekly.You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call.For details visit fulltimenix.com.

Pre-roll transcript:Bump! Nix ecosystem news.---constitution: add referendumsWeekly/biweekly hangout by lassulus@domenkozar nominated for Nixpkgs commit bit (episodes featuring him)ThaigerSprint January 2027 (Thaiger Sprint November 2025)nixos/sshd: mldsa44-ed25519 host key by default ---Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.fulltimenix.comFor 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Pre-roll transcript:Bump! Nix ecosystem news.---pkgs.php now points to v8.5Nix Meetup Cologne, Germany October 28, 19:15home-manager claude-code config dir changeNix Community Survey 2026NixOS workshop, Barcelona, Nov 18, 3pmnixos scripted stage 1 removedgradient: initDiscussion on getting the Nix daemon out of the business of authenticationsystemd is becoming kernel boundNix at FOSDEM 2027 - looking for devroom co-managerVoting has restarted on the third Steering Committee electionnixos/tests: implement X11 for nspawn, episode on NixOS tests, episode on nspawn container testsperlPackages.BerkeleyDB downgrade issueJobs at Aykua Health — Cambridge, UK (hybrid)Breaking changes to all packages except desktop environments are now restrictedpodman breaking changesforgejo breaking changesJob at VirtusLabRocky Mountain Linux Fest, Denver, Colorado, August 7 2027A Nix talk at the Pittsburgh Tech Fest, October 30Noisebridge Nix Night, Oct 28 7pm, San Francisco ---Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.fulltimenix.comFor 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Pre-roll transcript:Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast.For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.Podcast gear sponsored by nixbuild.net.---NixCon 2026Sponsored by nixbuild.netFelix Schröterhttps://nixos.org/community/commercial-support/atvari — Software & Cloud Engineering ConsultingDiego TurchettoTonioGelaYifei Sungarnix | the nix CIatelierthe talkLisanna Dettwylernix-scheduler-hookThe new .devShell interface for nix developThe panel at NixConparzivalefinixfinix talkthe tangled talkRTUnrealJanLikarScrumplexfetchPnpmCache: initalexandru0-dev (Alexandru Nechita)Where would better Windows support in Nix help you?vimjoyer (Yurii Melnychenko)THE BEST WAY TO LEARN NIX - YouTubedjacu (Daniel Baker)Community SurveyBrandingNix 2.35Revel are hiringtfc (Jacek Galowicz)NixcademyNixOS Tests nspawn containersKiaraGrouwstra (kiara)GrimmTheShrimp (Grimmauld)Tools:nix-check-deps (find unnecessary deps)nix-drv-index (find reverse deps "worst offenders")diffoscope (verify dep removal doesn't result in change)Docs:pkg removalbroken pkg removal RFC"problem" infrastructure RFCOngoing removals (non-exhaustive): gtk2, PCRE, fuse2, vendored electron, (no libgcrypt tracking issue yet)Searches"needs cleanup"+"tracking"Cleanup PRs (assuming proper tagging)"picking up garbage" project boardsome use "topic: hygiene" and "topic: old versions"cyclic-pentane (pentane)nix-community/robotnixForgeFed ---Nixcademy ad transcript:Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology.As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity.Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing supportand the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt.What's worse; morale is affected.But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated.Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz,Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix.It's what they do.So, liberate your Nix experts,prevent technical debtand get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner.Visit nixcademy.com.Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months.They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to.nixcademy.com.Determinate Nix ad transcript:You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work.But — security, compliance, and scale.Enter Determinate Nix.It is the Nix that powers our systems.But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer.Such as:- Parallel evaluation- Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS- Lazy trees- Automatic certificate handling- First-class mobile device managementAnd the list goes on.Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infrasuch as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality.determinate.systemsPost-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Pre-roll transcript:Bump! Nix ecosystem news.---home-manager claude-code mutable settingsnixos/nftables: switch location of rules to be removedSecurity Advisory: makeBinaryWrapper: empty PATH segments enable current-directory hijackingSecurity advisory for Nix and Lixhome-manager opencode mutable settingsSC election candidatesnixos programs.ssh.hostsFull-stack job at Treat Health, Helsinkinixmaphome-manager removed deprecated featuresnixos-version new flagsnumtide/iets: Fast Nix evaluator and remote-build client in Rust ---Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.fulltimenix.comFor 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Pre-roll transcript:Nix Freaks:Spontaneous topicsPassionate discussionsWild takesProgrammer humorA Full Time Nix productionFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.---Nix FreaksA build graph that rolls dice | Farid Zakaria’s BlogNix SC election 2026Shahar "Dawn" Or (@mightyiam) nomination ---Post-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.Nix Freaks takes place weekly.You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call.For details visit fulltimenix.com.

Pre-roll transcript:Bump! Nix ecosystem news.---services.hydra.adHoc.enablehome-manager libreoffice moduleFrontend Job @ bevuta IT (global, remote)home-manager vscode mutable user settingsNixOS and robot infra job, in-person, Massachusetts, Tutor IntelligenceTurkish Nix users group is formingSC candidates so farSC election timeline shiftBreaking changes to Release Critical packages now restricted ---Post-roll transcript:Submit news items!By messaging me. Of course.fulltimenix.comFor 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Pre-roll transcript:Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast.For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.Podcast gear sponsored by nixbuild.net.---https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.35.1/manual/release-notes/rl-2.35.html ---Nixcademy ad transcript:Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology.As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity.Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing supportand the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt.What's worse; morale is affected.But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated.Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz,Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix.It's what they do.So, liberate your Nix experts,prevent technical debtand get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner.Visit nixcademy.com.Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months.They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to.nixcademy.com.Determinate Nix ad transcript:You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work.But — security, compliance, and scale.Enter Determinate Nix.It is the Nix that powers our systems.But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer.Such as:- Parallel evaluation- Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS- Lazy trees- Automatic certificate handling- First-class mobile device managementAnd the list goes on.Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infrasuch as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality.determinate.systemsPost-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.

Pre-roll transcript:Nix Freaks:Spontaneous topicsPassionate discussionsWild takesProgrammer humorA Full Time Nix productionFor silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.---Nix Freaks𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘅 (@Malix_Labs) / Xvaxry (@vaxryy) / Xmightyi.am · TangledProposal: Team initiatives, grant program and purpose-bound funding by infinisil · Pull Request #270 · NixOS/orgWhy fricklerhandwerk changed his mind about flakes (talk)SC election NomineesNominate @toastal for SC-election-2026treewide: enable strictDeps and structuredAttrs for various low-level packages by SFrijters · Pull Request #551108 · NixOS/nixpkgs ---Post-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search "Full Time Nix" on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.Nix Freaks takes place weekly.You are welcome to show up and chat or even ask to join the call.For details visit fulltimenix.com.