yt:channel:3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwNixOSNixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2019-08-02T16:15:57+00:00yt:video:82UxXZv6Vhk82UxXZv6VhkUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwHow to improve readability in Nix documentationNixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-07-02T13:39:51+00:002026-04-29T05:06:55+00:00How to improve readability in Nix documentation@fricklerhandwerk from the Nix documentation team shows his editorial workflow for making the Nix manual easier to read and more accessible to beginners.
Note: This video is likely to get out of date, as the specifics may change over time. We hope it still makes the process more approachable and easier to replicate.yt:video:1087cBB8JEg1087cBB8JEgUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwSummer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #7NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-06-25T14:26:26+00:002026-04-22T00:31:56+00:00Summer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #7"Mob Cake" live streaming a live mob programming session of their regular Summer of Nix work.
Join, ask questions, or help solve tricky packaging problems together.
This session may be particularly interesting if you would like to:
- see remote mob programming in action
- get a taste of disciplined software development with Nix and NixOS
- peek behind the curtains of cutting-edge free and open source software (rubbing two sticks together)yt:video:7oSYO0GHNYY7oSYO0GHNYYUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwSummer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #6NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-06-24T15:00:24+00:002025-06-13T05:34:24+00:00Summer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #6"Mob Cake" live streaming a live mob programming session of their regular Summer of Nix work.
Join, ask questions, or help solve tricky packaging problems together.
This session may be particularly interesting if you would like to:
- see remote mob programming in action
- get a taste of disciplined software development with Nix and NixOS
- peek behind the curtains of cutting-edge free and open source software (rubbing two sticks together)yt:video:8ogaUFuAkCY8ogaUFuAkCYUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwHow to make changes to the Nix reference manualNixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-06-24T09:44:14+00:002026-04-29T01:34:13+00:00How to make changes to the Nix reference manual@fricklerhandwerk from the Nix documentation team gives a gentle introduction to working on the Nix reference manual, for an impression of how it's done.
Note: This video is likely to get out of date, as the specifics may change over time. We hope it still makes the process more approachable for beginners.yt:video:bLiCQCk1ewcbLiCQCk1ewcUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwSummer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #5NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-06-20T15:02:05+00:002026-04-13T17:37:26+00:00Summer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #5"Mob Cake" live streaming a live mob programming session of their regular Summer of Nix work.
Join, ask questions, or help solve tricky packaging problems together.
This session may be particularly interesting if you would like to:
- see remote mob programming in action
- get a taste of disciplined software development with Nix and NixOS
- peek behind the curtains of cutting-edge free and open source software (rubbing two sticks together)yt:video:pEGrnNXl3RYpEGrnNXl3RYUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwSummer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #4NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-06-19T15:01:03+00:002026-04-22T23:23:49+00:00Summer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #4"Mob Cake" live streaming a live mob programming session of their regular Summer of Nix work. They'll be creating a new, auto-generated set of tree-sitter binding python packages for Nixpkgs.
Join, ask questions, or help solve tricky packaging and code-generation problems together.
This session may be particularly interesting if you would like to:
- see remote mob programming in action
- get a taste of disciplined software development with Nix and NixOS
- peek behind the curtains of cutting-edge free and open source software (rubbing two sticks together)yt:video:ik_d0dWYQgQik_d0dWYQgQUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwSummer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #3NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-06-18T15:02:07+00:002025-06-08T01:17:25+00:00Summer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #3"Mob Cake" live streaming a live mob programming session of their regular Summer of Nix work. They'll be creating a new, auto-generated set of tree-sitter binding python packages for Nixpkgs.
Join, ask questions, or help solve tricky packaging and code-generation problems together.
This session may be particularly interesting if you would like to:
- see remote mob programming in action
- get a taste of disciplined software development with Nix and NixOS
- peek behind the curtains of cutting-edge free and open source software (rubbing two sticks together)yt:video:AJCJzHER_FsAJCJzHER_FsUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwSummer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #2NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-06-17T15:07:24+00:002026-04-28T19:31:03+00:00Summer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #2"Mob Cake" live streaming a live mob programming session of their regular Summer of Nix work. They'll be creating a new, auto-generated set of tree-sitter binding python packages for Nixpkgs.
Join, ask questions, or help solve tricky packaging and code-generation problems together.
This session may be particularly interesting if you would like to:
- see remote mob programming in action
- get a taste of disciplined software development with Nix and NixOS
- peek behind the curtains of cutting-edge free and open source software (rubbing two sticks together)yt:video:Rjv3jrywFBwRjv3jrywFBwUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwSummer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #1NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2024-06-14T01:01:16+00:002026-04-21T21:43:12+00:00Summer of Nix Full Exposure – live mob programming session #1“Mob Cake” will stream an open session for an insight into what’s happening on the technical side of Summer of Nix 2024. You’re invited to listen in, ask questions, or help solve tricky software puzzles together. This session may be particularly interesting if you would like to:
- see remote mob programming in action
- get a taste of disciplined software development with Nix and NixOS
- peek behind the curtains of cutting-edge free and open source software (rubbing two sticks together)yt:video:Ga10_18sSMcGa10_18sSMcUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwAlexander Groleau – The journey to better documentation (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2023-12-11T08:48:02+00:002025-06-08T17:42:58+00:00Alexander Groleau – The journey to better documentation (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)Alex (@proofconstruction) is a mathematician and used Nix for many years before becoming a contributor and joining the documentation team. In the last episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we will talk about barriers to adoption and contribution, learning and teaching, and how better documentation can bridge the gap to success.
*Links from the show*
- Nix documentation team: https://nixos.org/community/teams/documentation.html
- Latest Nix community survey results: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-community-survey-2023-results/33124
- Nix official documentation site: https://nix.dev/
- Nix documentation meeting notes: https://discourse.nixos.org/search?expanded=true&q=Documentation%20team%20meeting%20notes%20in%3Atitle%20order%3Alatest
- Nix 2.19 manual: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.19/
- Nixpkgs manual: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/
- NixOS manual: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/
- Nix.dev's style guidelines: https://nix.dev/contributing/documentation/style-guide
- Download NixOS: https://nixos.org/download#nixos-iso
- Contributing to NixOS documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/pulls
- NixCon NA announcement: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-first-nixcon-north-america/35874yt:video:spow4z-QMOsspow4z-QMOsUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwEelco Dolstra & Ron Efroni – Keeping the lights on (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2023-12-09T08:42:50+00:002025-06-12T08:13:39+00:00Eelco Dolstra & Ron Efroni – Keeping the lights on (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)By night, Eelco (@edolstra) is the inventor of Nix and chair of the NixOS Foundation board, and Ron (@refroni) is a board member and the foundation’s treasurer. By day they each run a company built on top of Nix. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we’ll talk about the purpose of the foundation, the board’s role in the Nix community, recent developments at ecosystem scale, and upcoming challenges.
*Links from the show*
- Eelco's Ph.D. thesis: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
- Determinate Systems' about: https://determinate.systems/about/
- Flox's about: https://flox.dev/about
- NixOS Foundation board: https://nixos.org/community/teams/foundation-board
- Eelco Visser (Dolstra's supervisor) research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1OA7zicAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
- Recent Ron's GitHub Universe talk: https://youtu.be/PHFbw6JSzMk?si=21B4FIXx8afYYQcy&t=1561
- Eelco's NixCon 2015 talk on Nix Roadmap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjXJGiOgfGg
- About NGI0: https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-zero/
- https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/
- The Nix infrastructure team: https://nixos.org/community/teams/infrastructure
- Partnership with AWS to sponsor the S3 cache (short term resolution): https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-s3-short-term-resolution/29413
- NixCon 2024 Northamerica: https://sessionize.com/nixcon-na-2024/
- NGI's Summer of Nix: https://github.com/ngi-nix/summer-of-nix
- Efforts and discussion on reducing S3 cache costs: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-s3-long-term-resolution-phase-1/36493
- S3 cache team meeting notes: https://discourse.nixos.org/search?expanded=true&q=Long-term%20S3%20cache%20solutions%20meeting%20minutes%20order%3Alatest
- NixOS Foundation Board Meeting Minutes: https://discourse.nixos.org/search?expanded=true&q=NixOS%20Foundation%20Board%20Meeting%20Minutes%20in%3Atitle%20order%3Alatest
- Quarterly NixOS Foundation Board Panel: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/quarterly-nixos-foundation-board-panel/23251/1
- Foundation's issue page on GitHub: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issuesyt:video:ZKbTpoM6KkYZKbTpoM6KkYUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwSergei Kozlukov – Deep learning and AI applications in Nixpkgs (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2023-12-07T23:41:20+00:002026-04-22T18:31:24+00:00Sergei Kozlukov – Deep learning and AI applications in Nixpkgs (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)Sergei (@SomeoneSerge) is a doctoral student at the Aalto University, and participates in the effort to improve CUDA support in Nixpkgs. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we’ll see how Nixpkgs and NixOS fare as a platform for AI and deep learning applications, discuss Nixpkgs support for the ROCm and CUDA acceleration frameworks, look into driver support in NixOS, and see in how far NixOS is compatible with the “traditional” workflows involving `pip`, `conda`, and containers.
*Links from the show*
- CUDA Nixpkgs manual: https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/languages-frameworks/cuda/
- NixCon2023 Nix for HPC -- the case of cudaPackages: https://media.ccc.de/v/nixcon-2023-36404-nix-for-hpc-the-case-of-cudapackages
- Example on language model training and technical difficulties that could be avoided with Nix: https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projects/OPT/chronicles/OPT_Baselines_Logbook.pdf
- Dependency pruning efforts: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/232426
- Efforts on improving CUDA's UX: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/232429
- Automatic stable diffusion repo: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
- Binary distribution via Hydra or other efforts: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/232440
- Unofficial Nixpkgs CUDA cache: https://app.cachix.org/cache/cuda-maintainers
- NixOS Foundation Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/nixos
- GRICAD Grenoble Alpe Research -- Scientific Computing and Data Infrastructure: https://gricad.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/apropos_en.html
- Wrap up from day 3 of the Guix workshop: https://gricad-doc.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/hpc/description/
- Triton cluster on Aalto University: https://scicomp.aalto.fi/triton/
- The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) -- LUMI cluster: https://lumi-supercomputer.eu/about-lumi/
- Konrad Hinsen - Nix/Guix and Reproducible Science (SoN2022 - public lecture series): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjjEDTccpQA
- ROCm framework for GPU programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROCm
- Numtide's nix-gl-host: https://github.com/numtide/nix-gl-host
- CUDA team: https://nixos.org/community/teams/cuda
- CUDA good-first-bug issues: https://tinyurl.com/bdfezh9tyt:video:k8zkAb9H9-gk8zkAb9H9-gUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwRonny Lam – Public funding in open source (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2023-12-04T23:47:48+00:002026-04-22T23:58:11+00:00Ronny Lam – Public funding in open source (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)Ronny and Jos are project managers at NLnet, and support promising free and open source technology with research grants, with the goal to build the technical foundation for a more participatory and accessible digital world. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues, we will look at the grand scheme of things, talk about long-term goals, funding opportunities for independent software developers, and the role of Nix in all of this.
*Links from the show*
- NLnet's about: https://nlnet.nl/foundation/
- European Commission open source software strategy: https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/departments-and-executive-agencies/digital-services/open-source-software-strategy_en
- The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/cyber-resilience-act
- Michiel Leenaars - The Significance of Reproducible Software in International R&D (SoN2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM5zpCn4piM
- Slides on the significance of reproducible software in international R&D: https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/SoN-2022/
- Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/next-generation-internet-initiative
- About NGI Zero: https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-zero/
- NGI0 Core: https://nlnet.nl/core/
- NGI0 Entrust: https://nlnet.nl/entrust/
- NGI0 Review: https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/review/
- NGI0 Commons (new!): https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/
- NixOS Foundation and NLnet partnership announcement: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-participating-in-eus-next-generation-internet-initiative/2011
- NGIpkgs: https://github.com/ngi-nix/ngipkgs
- NLnet's focus on open hardware: https://nlnet.nl/thema/Hardware.html
- NGI Fediversity: https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/
- The Summer of Nix: https://nlnet.nl/news/2021/20210910-Summer-of-nix-update.html
- NLnet application process (by libreSOC): https://libre-soc.org/nlnet/
- NLnet guide for applicants for the user-operated Internet fund: https://nlnet.nl/useroperated/guideforapplicants/
- NLnet Tauri Apps project (Microsoft's Electron Opensource framework alternative): https://nlnet.nl/project/Tauri/yt:video:T3vq9Mf5mXQT3vq9Mf5mXQUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwThomas Bereknyei & John Ericson – Unexplored superpowers (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2023-12-04T08:42:52+00:002026-04-29T05:55:39+00:00Thomas Bereknyei & John Ericson – Unexplored superpowers (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)Tom (@tomberek) has driven many developments around outreach, user experience, and major technical decisions in the past, and continues to be a force of nature when it comes to helping people to get together and make progress on seemingly intractable problems. John (@Ericson2314) is known for his additions to cross-compilation facilities in Nixpkgs, and contributed by far the largest amount of changes to the Nix C++ code base in recent times. Both have been active in the Nix community for many years, and are members of the Nix maintainer team. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues, we’ll talk about the cornerstone of the ecosystem, teamwork and timelines, stability and innovation, and conquering the world.
*Links from the show*
- RFC133 on integrating Nix with IPFS: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/133
- Nix team: https://nixos.org/community/teams/nix
- Nix team day-to-day agenda & meeting notes: https://tinyurl.com/299enntv
- RFC092 on higher order batch jobs: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/92
- Haskell-Nix integration by Peter Simons: https://haskell4nix.readthedocs.io/nixpkgs-users-guide.html
- Flakes: https://nix.dev/concepts/flakes.html
- A brief history: https://zimbatm.com/notes/summary-of-nix-flakes-vs-original-nix
- Informative discussion of flakes problems and how to improve: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/improving-flakes/12831yt:video:g_6vi14aD0cg_6vi14aD0cUC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIwThéophane Hufschmitt & Matthias Meschede – Build system for business (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)NixOShttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vIimi9q4AT8EgxYp_dWIw2023-12-01T23:47:49+00:002025-06-07T00:04:04+00:00Théophane Hufschmitt & Matthias Meschede – Build system for business (2023 Nix Developer Dialogues)Théophane (@thufschmitt) leads the Nix Group at Tweag, and Matthias (@MMesch) is part of the sales team and was formerly responsible for Summer of Nix. In this episode of the 2023 Nix Developer Dialogues we will talk about money: why and how Nix is being adopted by organisations, companies in particular, the tensions and synergies in public and commercial interests, and the economics of open source.
*Links from the show*
- Tweag's Nix technical group: https://www.tweag.io/group/nix/
- Some of the companies based on Nix:
- Numtide: https://numtide.com/about/
- Cachix: https://www.cachix.org/about
- Flox: https://flox.dev/about
- Nickel language: https://nickel-lang.org/
- ObsPy -- nuclear bomb explosion detector python library: https://www.geophysik.uni-muenchen.de/~megies/www_obsrise/
- Tweags' efforts on Nix: https://www.tweag.io/blog/tags/nix/
- Concept of digital Common goods/resource in the open source world: https://tinyurl.com/2ffer4s4
- Implementing a content-addressed Nix: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2021-12-02-nix-cas-4/
- The NixOS Foundation: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation
- S3 packet binary cache costs: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672
- Binary cache short term solution: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-s3-short-term-resolution/29413
- NixCon governance workshop published notes: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-governance-workshop/32705
- Konrad Hinsen - Nix/Guix and Reproducible Science talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjjEDTccpQA
- Public institutions' role in Nix. TU Delft and Eelco's research: https://tinyurl.com/mvphu5a3
- NGI and the Summer of Nix: https://github.com/ngi-nix/summer-of-nix