News

• autobake: Create build recipes through automated trial and error

• GNU Guix 1.0.0 released

• RFC on setup.nix Python development tool

  Asko proposes a new Python development tool

• SNM release compatible with NixOS 19.03

• nixpkgs macOS stdenv updates

  Matthew’s overview of recent stdenv updates, which also bumps minimal supported version to 10.12.

• Phoronix: NixOS Takes Action After 1.2GB/s ZFS Encryption Speed Drops To 200MB/s With Linux 5.0+

• nixfmt

  Serokell releases nixfmt 0.1 with a focus on speed and are looking for feedback.

• Elm tooling for Nix

  Linux and macOS packages tooling for Elm: elm-test, elm-verify-examples, elm-analyse, elm-doc-preview

• Groq.com is seeking a DevOps Engineer

  who will be responsible for maintaining and developing services such as build system, monitoring, name resolution, configuration management, and the like. Groq uses formal methods, Haskell, and NixOS to build processors.

• Hercules CI sprint #3 report

  • hercules-agent-0.2 release
  • precise derivations support for upcoming multi-agent and multi-architecture support
  • focus for next two weeks is Cachix and Darwin support

• gitignore for Nix

  Robert announces gitignore that precisely emulates git behaviour and goes into details how it compares with existing solutions

• VPS prgmr updates NixOS installer to 19.03

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