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Pre-roll transcript: Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. --- https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.31.0/manual/release-notes/rl-2.31.html https://github.com/NixOS/nix/compare/2.31.0...2.31.1 --- Nixcademy ad transcript: Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology. As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity. Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt. What's worse; morale is affected. But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated. Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz, Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix. It's what they do. So, liberate your Nix experts, prevent technical debt and get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner. Visit nixcademy.com . Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months. They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to. nixcademy.com . Determinate Nix ad transcript: You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work. But — security, compliance, and scale. Enter Determinate Nix. It is the Nix that powers our systems. But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer. Such as: - Parallel evaluation - Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS - Lazy trees - Automatic certificate handling - First-class mobile device management And the list goes on. Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infra such as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality. determinate.systems Post-roll transcript: For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com. For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .

Pre-roll transcript: Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. --- https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.29/release-notes/rl-2.29.html --- Nixcademy ad transcript: Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology. As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity. Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt. What's worse; morale is affected. But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated. Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz, Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix. It's what they do. So, liberate your Nix experts, prevent technical debt and get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner. Visit nixcademy.com . Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months. They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to. nixcademy.com . Determinate Nix ad transcript: You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work. But — security, compliance, and scale. Enter Determinate Nix. It is the Nix that powers our systems. But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer. Such as: - Parallel evaluation - Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS - Lazy trees - Automatic certificate handling - First-class mobile device management And the list goes on. Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infra such as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality. determinate.systems Post-roll transcript: For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com. For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am .

Pre-roll transcript: Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. --- https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.28/release-notes/rl-2.27 https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.28/release-notes/rl-2.28 https://snix.dev/ https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0132-meson-builds-nix.md https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/10/an-early-look-at-nix-dynamic-derivations https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/11/nix-dynamic-derivations-a-practical-application https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/12/nix-dynamic-derivations-a-lang2nix-practicum https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ninja-ninja-compatible-incremental-build-system-for-nix/62594?u=mightyiam https://mesonbuild.com/ https://cmake.org/ https://ninja-build.org/ https://bazel.build/ https://buck2.build/ Chapters (generated) 00:00 Introduction 01:26 Nix File Formatting 02:38 Packaging Improvements and Granularity 05:27 Development Shell and Build Process 06:32 Error Message Improvements 09:21 Hydra Code Simplification 13:00 Bug Fixes and Maintenance 17:25 New Features in Flakes 21:32 Git LFS Support and Fetching Mechanisms 24:09 Change Root Store Enhancements 28:10 --out-link flag for Prefetch Command 30:13 Understanding File Descriptors and Process Management 31:59 BLAKE3 Hash Support and Its Implications 34:03 Release 2.27.0: Infrastructure Overhaul and Changes 35:47 C++ API Rework and Its Impact 38:25 Stability and Breaking Changes in Nix 42:34 Downstream Project Involvement and Ecosystem Participation 50:03 C API Development and Global Variables 52:32 Future Directions: Dynamic Derivations and Ecosystem Growth --- Nixcademy ad transcript: Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology. As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity. Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt. What's worse; morale is affected. <

Pre-roll transcript: Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. --- https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.24.11 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.25.4 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.24.12 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.26.0 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.26.1 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6316 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/12045 https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/132 --- Nixcademy ad transcript: Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology. As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity. Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt. What's worse; morale is affected. But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated. Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz, Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix. It's what they do. So, liberate your Nix experts, prevent technical debt and get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner. Visit nixcademy.com . Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months. They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to. nixcademy.com . Determinate Nix ad transcript: You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work. But — security, compliance, and scale. Enter Determinate Nix. It is the Nix that powers our systems. But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer. Such as: - Parallel evaluation - Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS - Lazy trees - Automatic certificate handling - First-class mobile device management And the list goes on. Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infra such as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality. determinate.systems Post-roll transcript: For past and futu