Welcome to another edition of NixOS “Weekly” Newsletter! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen.
News
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NixOS 18.03 release approaching
Mog has set up an unofficial redbubble store for various NixOS items (T-shirts, stickers, banners).
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Workgroups are used to facilitate working on components of the Nix ecosystems. As of this writing there exists:
- container workgroup: “building (minimal) OCI containers from the nixpkgs ecosystem.”
- router workgroup: running NixOS on your router.
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Tracking RISC-V support in the Nix world
Note the followup message linking the publicly visible boards:
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Patreon to support the NixOS OfBorg infrastructure
This supports @grhmc’s work on the OfBorg tooling.
Jobs
- Nix/DevOps position with Tweag I/O
- Software Engineer with DevOps and Continuous Delivery Experience at Conference Compass
- Serokell is hiring for several positions
Reading
- Deploying systems with circular dependencies using Disnix by Sander van der Burg
- Haskell developer experience in NixOS by Roman Kuznetsov
- XMonad and Taffybar on NixOS using Stack by Dennis Gosnell
- Install VirtualBox on NixOS by Dennis Gosnell
- Parity as a service on NixOS by Alexander Krupenkin
Tooling
- nix-update for Emacs - An Emacs command for updating fetch declarations in place
- simple-hydra - A simple module for enabling Hydra
- groking-hydra - A repository of collecting insight about hydra
- dhall-build - A Dhall interface to the Nix build system
- nix-update - A script to update package in nixos automagically
- Disnix - Disnix 0.8 released
Events / Meetups
- ComcastLabs Connect: Functional
Programming
- When: March 9
- Where: Philadelphia PA, USA
- What: Among other functional programming topics, Susan Potter (@SusanPotter) is speaking on Functional Operations: Packaging, system/configuration building, and testing infrastructure with [Nix] lambdas
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