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From Frustration to Power: What We Learned at Nixcademy
Read more »: From Frustration to Power: What We Learned at NixcademyWe recently completed two days of Nixcademy training, exploring the powerful yet complex Nix and NixOS ecosystem. After five years of experience, the course still offered valuable insights—especially about overlays and fixed-point recursion—that turn frustration into empowerment. If you’re working with Nix or planning to, this course can save you months of struggle.
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Fast development on NixOS
Read more »: Fast development on NixOSWe’ve been using NixOS for a few years, and it has proven to be a stable and reliable OS. More importantly, it’s declarative and reproducible, which is one of the main reasons we decided to migrate ~700 of our Ubuntu servers to NixOS. However, it has a few downsides, and one of the biggest ones…
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NixCon Paris 2022
Read more »: NixCon Paris 2022After three years, we finally got a proper IRL NixCon. Since the Nix community is not the biggest one, it was nice to talk about Nix for three days (two at the conference and one at the sprint). We heard many interesting talks and answered a few important questions. So let’s start with the most…
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Sprints are back!
Read more »: Sprints are back!Back in early 2010’s, “sprints” were how I lived. Week-long events, in random places around the World, hacking on open source. From offices in European cities, to lake sides, castles and saunas. It’s where I met some of my best friends, where I got business for Niteo’s agency side. It’s where I learned more than…
