Notices tagged with nix, page 2

I am currently contracted to the US federal government. It's likely that soon my contract will vanish.

I am looking for a company or a contract that needs a remote/US-DC-area senior developer/architect with very deep Python, UNIX and networking experience, and extensive cloud experience.

I am also very interested in #nix and #nixos.

Boosts appreciated!

#getfedihired

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chmcdonough/

https://github.com/mcdonc

#batman mesh on #nix with @numinit at #scale22

My employer has just announced the removal of all hybrid work so here goes. If you/your org is in need of an early career developer with professional experience in #php, #cSharp, and #react, I’m your guy! Non-professionally, I also have experience working with #rust, #lua, and #nix (individually). I can pick up new concepts fairly quickly and I’d say I communicate very well. I’ve worked as a developer for 2.5 years and before that I was in IT for about the same amount of time. Do your thing fedi #getFediHired

For #guix social I'm going to do a talk for #beginners on trying #guix as a #linux distribution. Basically, how to install Guix System, and getting started.

I'm going to do it in a #kvm #vm as that's an easy way to try the #nix derived #declarative goodness without fully committing.

What do you think the key things are to cover? Any particular sticky areas? Anything that was super interesting when you were getting started? What do #beginners need to know?

Guix online social event - Thursday 27th - come along and chat about all things #linux, #foss, #nix and #scheme associated!

Yeah, that's this Thursday so we can just get our first #guix meet-up of the year into February! What can I say, it's been a busy year!

As usual details are here:

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024

And on the linked meetup page!

@fnat

@luj I use #Guix on my X230, and it’s a good daily driver (though I found it a bit slower than #Nix). But I wouldn’t use it on a server, I’m way too used to systemd, haha. Also, there are too many useful NixOS options in nixpkgs that I wouldn’t have the courage to rewrite. I’ve been using it for more than six months now, and I still haven’t found the motivation to contribute a single time to the Guix sources repository…

Guile and RDE Intenships.

RDE applied for GSoC 2025 as a mentoring organization. The results will be on February 27.

I put the list of the project ideas here:
https://trop.in/rde/internship

However, GSoC is not the only way to do the internship. We have some funding contributed by our community members https://opencollective.com/rde and can arrange an internship regardless. Just contact me or drop a message on rde-discuss for details.

#guile #guix #rde #nix #scheme #webassembly #nrepl #vscode #foss #floss

What's the #1 improvement #guix contributors would like to see?

Timely reviews and actions taken on contributions. It was #1 in every question, with so many comments!

Lots of contributors thinking about ways to automate patch reviews and QA. The theme is removing friction from the Dev Experience.

Both Python and #Nix have approaches to this. What's the approach for Guix? Lots to talk about on this front at #guixdays

More here:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-3/

#FediHire

Ironically, after working for 2 years on a self-funded startup in tech hiring, I'm searching for a #remote CTO position in the #uk.

I will consider tech lead / sr. developer positions. #Rust #Nix #Haskell #Lean4 #Lean #OCaml

I slap – https://memorici.de/Jons_Mostovojs___CV___Software_Architect.pdf

Why are people interested in #guix ?

Declarative configuration (80%) and it's cousin Reproducibility (70%) were top choices which come from the #Nix heritage.

"Scheme, Guile and Lisp are cool" (72%) was second. This seems a different trend - interest in #lisp, #scheme perhaps driven by approaches in langs like #javascript - also some influence from #emacs community

Then came #FSF #GNU and #FOSS interest in Free Software (43%). Then #linux package management!

See:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/

About 50% of users adopt #guix as a #gnu #linux distribution. Most in a #linux #desktop config.

That surprised me as it's harder than starting with it as a hosted package manager.

A lot of #linux #developers are interested in #declarative configuration. Feels like people are experimenting with #nix and #guix. Users commonly mentioned #nixos #archlinux #debian and #ubuntu

About 5% initially adopt as a server, and then when they have confidence it goes up to about a third. That's cool!

The #guix survey also showed that our users are knowledgeable #Linux people. Almost 50% are experts/advanced and 47% are intermediate!

A lot of the attraction is the #nix value of declarative configuration and reproducibility. Users also identified that Scheme, Guile and Lisp are cool! Perhaps the overlap of two different communities! That was my path from #clojure and #ubuntu /#debian

See Q1 in the post:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/

#scheme #emacs #guile #lisp #declarative #reproducible

#guix is growing and many new users are adopting it!

Almost 75% of the user-base are recent adopters having used it for less than 4 years. 50% less than 2 years!

It's a similar to #Nix who's survey showed 65% of users were 0-2 years.

There's been a surge of interest in the benefits of #declarative and #reproducibility.

And with #guix we also get #lisp and #gnu #freesoftware - but don't worry you don't _have_ to use #emacs to use Guix (said the #vim user)

See:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/

The #guix survey's results are out!

Posting things I found interesting!

1. Guix has a fantastically committed community

We've never done a survey before, so I was really worried about how many would take part. Over 900 participants did so!

Even more amazing - 150 people took part who were previous users or contributors! Thank-you for taking the time.

Thanks all!

It means the results are a great sample. Read the posts:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/

#scheme #linux #scheme #lisp #gnu #nix

I was watching a Decentralized Systems course and there was a statement: Git was developed for Linux (a kernel, zero-dependency software) that's one of the reasons why managing dependencies is out of scope (submodules are a trainwreck).

Guix and Nix are basically just an extension of Git, which uses git itself as a database for storing dependency information in plain text format and requires external infrastructure to deal with it.

#guix #nix

Nix - Death by a thousand cuts

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-01-10-nix-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-01-10-nix-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/

#linux #nix #unix

Guix Social just welcomed our 105th member to the meetup group! It's been a really fun year of chat and talks about Guix, the declarative approach to Linux, as well as Guile, Scheme and Lisp.

Next week we have another really interesting talk. If you're interested in hanging out with a friendly group - find out more on the Meetup or Wiki pages!

https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/304634420/

https://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024

@fnat

#linux #apps #guix #nix #guile #scheme #lisp

@dansup @koen @loops Thanks! A well supported stack in #nixos with many examples in #nixpkgs so packaging it up with #nix shouldn’t be a problem for us. Docker is fine too of course, for wide adoption.

The #Nix docs have a reputation for being not-great, and I got to experience that after reviewing the "Ad hoc Shell Environments" page and attempting to try some things there:

https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps/ad-hoc-shell-environments

```
❯ nix-shell -p nodejs-20_x
error: getting status of '/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket': Permission denied
```

Now, why would creating an env specific to my current user require access to a socket owned by another user?