News

• Exploring Nix & Haskell Part 1: Project Setup

  This is the first of a series of posts, with the overarching goal of building up a deterministic Haskell development environment using Nix, including a modern IDE experience and any tooling built-in.

• New Aarch64 (and armv7l-linux omg!) builders

• New shirt and logo for 18.09 release

• krops as an alternative to NixOps

  NixOps, the official DevOps tool of NixOS, is nice but it has some flaws. krops is an alternative to NixOps trying to solve some of these flaws.

• Developer friendly backdoor to VM tests infrastructure

• Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix

  Check out how Graham created Nix tooling to automatically build Docker images with great cache characteristics by using Nix’s reference graph to separate out important layers.

• Announcing Hercules CI - Continuous Integration service for Nix users launching beta in November

  Some distinguishing features:

  : - Great integration with Nix - Host build agents wherever you want - Free plan for open source!

• Cachix (binary cache as a service) client 0.1.2 released

• nix repl ‘<nixpkgs/nixos>’ will let you check out your configuration results

• Snowflake (language-agnostic, toolchain-agnostic build system built on top of Nix) v0.0.2 released

• Japanese on NixOS

  An explanation of how to setup an environment for reading and writing Japanese on NixOS

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