Shahar "Dawn" Or (@mightyiam)

I daily drive this phone. I use various Android apps. Should I do this?

08.03.2026 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nix Freaks 20. Deephack, NobbZ, Jacek and kiara. NobbZ shared a bit of the history behind his unofficial NixOS Discord. Historic computers, OSs, Nix anti-patterns, other books, future of Nix lang, static analysis, the module system, Fediversity and Nix’s in GSoC.

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08.03.2026 11:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nix Freaks 19! We touched upon a bunch of things in a short time: ZFS, server and desktop monitoring, Nix and WASM, Nix at DEF CON, links to some interesting talks and articles and open source projects. Nix related, of course. And like Beyonce said, listen.
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24.02.2026 13:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NovaCustom, a computer manufacter, announced recently; they support NixOS on their laptops and mini PCs. I got the founder on a recording, had a chat, what does it mean for NovaCustom to support NixOS? What is NixOS support for a computer? How did they achieve this?

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20.02.2026 09:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nix Freaks 18 with toastal and kiara. I was also there. We talked about input pinning, some mad workarounds, Nixtamal, flake-parts and the dendritic pattern.
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19.02.2026 10:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nixtamal; Fulfilling input pinning for Nix without flakes. A conversation with the author, toastal, & the author of niv (to ask smart questions). Host, forge & VCS agnostic. Eval-time & build-time fetchers. Supports mirrors! Custom freshness commands. And more.
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18.02.2026 09:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Slippery slop

16.02.2026 15:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What do we have in Nix Freaks 17?
forks and the health of the ecosystem, scalability of flakes, the potential for introducing Rust into OG Nix, evaluation, dynamic derivations, overlays and more.
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13.02.2026 13:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think the dendritic pattern is most worth studying. And it's probably the most well documented.
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See the various links in there.

08.02.2026 11:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

GitHub - mightyiam/infra: Shahar "Dawn" Or's Nix-powered "IT infrastructure" repository Shahar "Dawn" Or's Nix-powered "IT infrastructure" repository - mightyiam/infra

Congrats! Well, my own infra repo does not have any abstractions with regards to configurations. It's just flake-parts.
github.com/mightyiam/in...

Have any questions?

08.02.2026 03:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just published; Nix Freaks 16.
Among other things, we've talked about FOSDEM, open source, NixOS container tests and the flake situation.
Yeah. Check us out. hear us out. Enjoy.
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06.02.2026 11:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just published, Nix Freaks 15 where we have discussed ecosystem news. Keywords: ZFS, SBOM, disko, Fediversity, Netboot, Nix Rust bindings. Listen in.
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02.02.2026 10:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1