Full Time Nix
Full Time Nix

Bump 2026-02-03

03 February 2026 14:53 Shahar "Dawn" Or

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Nix ecosystem news

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I built a Nix binary cache backed by Git (82% storage reduction) - Development - NixOS Discourse
home-manager Chrome now has a plasmaSupport flag
Software Engineer (f/m/d) Build System and Package Management @ Hexagon Robotics (100% Zürich, Switzerland) - Jobs - NixOS Discourse
home-manager launchd module ensures that the store is available before starting
nixos/misc/nixpkgs add setting nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePackages = [“list” “of” “packages”] by dwt · Pull Request #396595 · NixOS/nixpkgs
Nixtamal: Fulfilling, pure input pinning for Nix - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
Cachix Deploy is Generally Available and Cachix 1.10 - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
A Full-Source Bootstrap for NixOS - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
I made a dual-bootable NixBSD (NixOS + FreeBSD) image - Development - NixOS Discourse
Manage Proton-GE with Home-Manger - Links - NixOS Discourse
Crate2nix 0.15 released - Links - NixOS Discourse
Hydra Queue Runner Rewrite 🦀 - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
Nfx - An Algebraic Effects System with Handlers in Nix - Links - NixOS Discourse
Security Advisory: Database and filestore publicly accessible with default Odoo configuration (CVE-2026-25137) - Announcements / Security - NixOS Discourse
Nix Meetup in Vienna, Austria - Events - NixOS Discourse
Nix meetup Helsinki - Events - NixOS Discourse


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