Shahar "Dawn" Or

Just published an episode about nix-effects: A pure Nix toolkit for effectful programs, typed validation, verified boundaries, and description-backed DSLs. If you were trying to understand what this means then we're on the same boat. during the episode I have asked the author of nix-effects, Mika Bohinen, all of the dumbest questions and, who knows, maybe even some good ones. To me it seems that nix-effects takes programming in Nix language to the next level and I'm looking forward for a good enough excuse to try it. It is already in use by several projects in the ecosystem. Listen in. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-e…

Ocean Sprint 2026 took place in April. While I was not there myself, I did have remote conversations with several participants during the sprint. To learn of their experiences and what they were working on check out this latest episode, Ocean Sprint 2026. fulltimenix.com/episodes/ocean…

A Nix Freaks 29 with crertel, Tristan Ross, and jonringer. Nix documentation and the tooling for it, Nix Nixpkgs review tooling or a deficiency of it? A caps lock indicator adventure... the need to prevent electronics from being antennas, a Dart runtime in Rust and more! fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-f…

Nix and NixOS are almost too good to be true. Isolation, libraries coexisting, transparent binary cache and software that just works. Not works on my machine, just works. But is that always the case? Or... Did we manage to get ourselves into... impurities? Join us for a discussion about libGL and find out what anomalies lurk in the dark depths of our operating systems. fulltimenix.com/episodes/the-l…

In Nix Freaks 28 mschwaig, kiara, toastal and I discussed whatever Nix things were on our minds. Public interfaces: flake outputs versus vanilla overlays, NixOS in ZFS home encryption (which sounds cool to me), mirrored boot partitions and more. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-f…

unflake and The Great Nix Flake Check; an episode with the author of unflake, Max, and toastal to help out with smart questions. unflake is an alternative dependency resolver and runtime for Nix flakes. Max, the author of unflake, ran a huge nix flake on more than 7,000 flakes and shared insights and interesting tidbits with us. Check out this latest installment of The Lock-Files. fulltimenix.com/episodes/unfla…

Nix Freaks 27: rxRust, low-level computer-ing things that I don't understand, gaming, Arm PC when? Hardware, cooling, power supply, cars, VMs, containers, micro VMs. Tune in. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-f…

@phoronix @FrameworkPuter ECC memory when?

Framework Computer Announces The @FrameworkPuter Laptop 13 Pro phoronix.com/news/Framework…

Nix Freaks 26. kiara, Jacek, Aaron, toastal and I, Ocean Sprint, which is happening right this moment, ReactiveX, reactive programming, UI, rxrust, TypeScript, Rust, and other languages, shell sandboxing, The NixOS Test Runner and more. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-f…

@phoronix @FrameworkPuter aarch64

Framework Computer To Announce Their Next-Gen Hardware Later This Month What do you hope to see @FrameworkPuter announce later this month?!?? phoronix.com/news/Framework…

What did Nix Freaks 25 have? Meetups, NixOS variants, compilers, their features, Nixpkgs splicing which I don’t yet understand, derivation closures, ricing, gaming, robots, fasting, food and beer. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-f…

Nix Freaks 24: Jacek, kiara, ibizaman and toastal talked about Nixtamal, Nixcademy, derivation outputs, channels, introducing Nix in an organization, service contracts and more. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-f…

@MrJTroyer @_DavSanchez I don't think this is of value to the audience

@mightyiam @_DavSanchez Is this going in the podcast

Ah, typical healthy community interactions. I don’t know why I bothered reading 😂 @mightyiam Also, still the renaming of Nix in full force, but not CppNix this time. What changed?

@_DavSanchez I asked for Lix to be merged back into Nix. Apparently, that's "harmful". No, what's harmful is blaming me publicly. Some can't stand other opinions.

@mightyiam Wondering what your comments were about. I saw that there was a reply answering in detail but not sure what the question was. I like OG Nix👌😂

Nix Freaks 23. AI, LLMs, LLM pull requests, code quality, Nixpkgs, collaboration, generated NixOS configs, LLM software packaging, ricing... ricing. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-f…

devenv 2.0. If it sounds interesting, join us for a chat. If it doesn't sound interesting, well, let me try this. It's interactive now. It's a TUI. Interactive. Instead of waiting for your dev shell to be ready, you can do whatever you like while you see the progress in a status bar. It has a process manager, an MCP server, automatic port allocation and other new features. So join us for a conversation with Domen. Human Slop Only. fulltimenix.com/episodes/deven…

Another Nix Sprint is coming up. It is called SaltSprint. Starts June 22nd, Halle, Germany. I had a chat with Flying Circus co-founder Christian Theune, the organizer. So what are you waiting for? Apply. Don't even listen to this episode. Just apply at saltsprint.org. fulltimenix.com/episodes/salts…

Nix Freaks 22. It included a short conversation about the LibGL anomaly (dedicated episode coming up) and devolved into a conversation about coding agents, generated pull requests, LLM generated Nix code, Planet Nix and NixCon, the political decisions that have been made, sponsors, the rejection of sponsors, and at some point, tomberek, Steering Committee member and Nix Team member, shared his perspective. If you don't listen, it didn't happen. fulltimenix.com/episodes/nix-f…