Notices by NixOS (nixos_org@chaos.social)

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Mark your calendars! #NixCon 2025 is set:
📍 Where: OST, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
📅 When: September 5-7, 2025 (Fri-Sun)

Tag your fellow Nix fans, spread the word, and let’s make this the best NixCon yet! More details here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-2025-5-7-september-in-rapperswil-jona-switzerland/62255
#Nix #NixOS

Recently, nixd, a feature-rich Nix language server interoperating with C++, had its 2.0.2 release. Congratulations to Yingchi Long, the maintainer of this project! Many thanks from the grateful community for your hard work! https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixd-2-0-2-released/43891

Nushell instead of Bash. Check out creator Luc Perkins' Nuenv demo at #NixCon. https://media.ccc.de/v/nixcon-2023-36432-nuenv-an-experimental-derivation-builder-for-nix

Magic Nix Cache - a totally free and zero-configuration binary cache.
Uses the GitHub Actions built-in cache to share builds between Workflow runs, and has many advantages over alternatives.
🪄 Read more: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-magic-nix-cache-a-github-action-for-speeding-up-your-nix-workflows/29665

Just a friendly reminder that the Nix Community Survey 2023 is now open and accepting responses until July 10th.
It will only take 10 minutes of your time to complete. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-community-survey-2023/28988

There's a Nix meetup happening tomorow in Dresden, Germany. 🇩🇪 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-meetup-dresden-germany/24396/25
#nixos #meetup #nix

nixpkgs-python
All Python versions are kept up-to-date on an hourly basis using Nix.

🐍 Read the details:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-python-use-any-python-using-nix/28662

utf8 library- check out the UTF-8 support for Nix!

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/utf-8-support-for-nix/28530

There's a Nix meetup happening today in Zürich, Switzerland, celebrating Nix's 20th anniversary! 🇨🇭
https://20th.nixos.org/
https://www.meetup.com/nixos-user-group-zurich/
#nix #nixos #anniversary #meetup #Zurïch

A new blogpost by Domen Kožar - Pins: Permanent Nix Binary Storage.

📖 You can read it here:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/pins-permanent-nix-binary-storage/28401