# nix (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 144 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nix. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117178823176656651) _2026-08-29 · Abhinav 🧭_ The # flu vaccine is kicking my ass, but it's much better than the flu kicking it. # health # personal ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117173118595910483) _2026-08-28 · Abhinav 🧭_ RE: https:// dmv.community/@jcrabapple/1171 73096096837275 I've been using a self-hosted # Feedecho instance and it's been quite solid. @ jcrabapple has been really responsive in addressing all the issues I've reported till now. # selfhosting ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117168217543075908) _2026-08-27 · Abhinav 🧭_ Bookmarked: \[jrsinclair.com\] How to write things people actually want to read https:// jrsinclair.com/articles/2020/h ow-to-write-things-people-want-to-read/ See more links at https:// abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog # linkblog # linkblogging ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117167958107196365) _2026-08-27 · Abhinav 🧭_ Bookmarked: \[healeycodes.com\] Building a Shell https:// healeycodes.com/building-a-she ll See more links at https:// abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog # linkblog # linkblogging ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117167706461019993) _2026-08-27 · Abhinav 🧭_ Bookmarked: \[antonz.org\] Allocators from C to Zig https:// antonz.org/allocators/ See more links at https:// abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog # linkblog # linkblogging ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117166911858060189) _2026-08-27 · Abhinav 🧭_ Reporting nine months later. Still at 820 # feeds , but now I have 500 unreads. I must have read thousands of articles in the last 9 months. ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117163447261173046) _2026-08-26 · Abhinav 🧭_ Wake up in the middle of night, check if my PR was reverted. It was not. Finally, I can sleep peacefully. (Life of (some, evidently mine) programmers in India working with teams in USA) # rant ## [Stamping build info in constant memory](https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/25/stamping-build-info-in-constant-memory) _2026-08-26 · Farid Zakaria’s Blog_ This is a fun little trick I came across at $DAYJOB. I did not invent it, but I thought it was interesting enough to understand better and share. ## [(untitled)](https://wecoso.de/bm/DfGP7NFUGMRq3eAiJQ8WvUYwwLHslvo0) _2026-08-25 · b(l|ookmark)ing_ Moon ## [(untitled)](https://wecoso.de/bm/DfGP7NFUGMRq3eAiJQ8WvUYwwLHslvo0) _2026-08-25 · b(l|ookmark)ing_ Moon ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Bd1G1YL8DRLK) _2026-08-25 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Why I Migrated From Authentik to PocketID](https://haseebmajid.dev/posts/2026-08-25-why-i-migrated-from-authentik-to-pocketid/) _2026-08-25 · Me · Haseeb Majid_ A while back I wrote about how I set up Authentik forward auth with Traefik on NixOS . It worked fine but recently I decided to rebuild my homelab/vps from scratch and decided to try moving to Pocket ID (and TinyAuth). We will also cover how I migrated over, though this was very basic I didn't actually move any data over. This is all installed via NixOS, so I want things to be as declarative as… ## [Actually Queryable Executables](https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables) _2026-08-25 · Farid Zakaria’s Blog_ I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea seems to have struck a chord with others. ## [(untitled)](https://wecoso.de/bm/9mDcg4ov2KhFx5ZSWwewED7MdFGlH6v2) _2026-08-24 · b(l|ookmark)ing_ chezmoi manages your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely ## [(untitled)](https://wecoso.de/bm/9mDcg4ov2KhFx5ZSWwewED7MdFGlH6v2) _2026-08-24 · b(l|ookmark)ing_ chezmoi manages your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117150278847746395) _2026-08-24 · Abhinav 🧭_ Bookmarked: \[mcyoung.xyz\] Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch https:// mcyoung.xyz/2023/11/27/simd-ba se64/ See more links at https:// abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog # linkblog # linkblogging ## [Your executable is a SQLite database](https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database) _2026-08-23 · Farid Zakaria’s Blog_ I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format. You might have noticed that these two ideas are well suited to each other. ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117145280337289404) _2026-08-23 · Abhinav 🧭_ 15 months after it started, # Indieweb Club # Bangalore now has 100 bloggers! https:// blr.indiewebclub.org/members I'm amazed at the community that we have managed to build in such short time. Join us! ## [How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed](https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/howtoreportabug/) _2026-08-23 · The Tymscar Blog_ I wanted to make a blog post like this for a long time, because it's something that I wish I could find more of myself. I think one of the things that helps us most in our careers as software engineers is knowing how to debug problems, how to reproduce them, and how to report them. What prompted me to write this was watching this awesome video from Kovarex, the founder of Factorio, where he goes… ## [The Schrödinger Email](https://yashgarg.dev/posts/the-schrodinger-email/) _2026-08-22 · Yash Garg · Yash Garg_ Tracing my way around a failed email redirection. ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117137538731844467) _2026-08-22 · Abhinav 🧭_ Got https:// indieweb.social/@blr working again by running https:// github.com/jcrabapple/feedecho via # NixOS on my server. Now that I'm # selhosting it, I can echo any number of # feeds to # Mastodon . ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9ykHlthUI169) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117137277909378824) _2026-08-22 · Abhinav 🧭_ More than half of the traffic to my not-at-all popular website is now bots. # indieweb ## [Testing LDAP and SSO Integrations in NixOS with Playwright](https://blog.tiserbox.com//posts/2026-08-22-testing-ldap-and-sso-integrations-in-nix-os-with-playwright.html) _2026-08-22 · ibizaman's Blog_ Posted on August 22, 2026 Tags: nix , tests , playwright , ldap , sso , selfhostblocks There is one thing I hate the most in the DevOps world. It’s having the ground shift under my feet. I take a while to implement some integration but it’s done and I’m happy. Then 6 months later, something changes, some default is different, I don’t notice it and I deploy. This breaks my carefully crafted… ## [MDX Syntax Highlighting in NixVim](https://britter.dev/blog/2026/08/21/mdx-syntax-highlighting-nixvim/) _2026-08-21 · Reproducible Thoughts_ How to get syntax highlighting for MDX files working in Neovim using NixVim. ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117128583247562270) _2026-08-20 · Abhinav 🧭_ Bookmarked: \[stackbuilders.com\] GHC optimization and fusion https:// web.archive.org/web/20260819/h ttps://www.stackbuilders.com/insights/ghc-optimization-and-fusion/ See more links at abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog # linkblog # linkblogging ## [pulse n pause](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/pulse-n-pause/) _2026-08-20 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ Just a brief note - Pulse N Pause Coffee has been doing pop-ups at Paper Son in SF on and off for the last couple of weeks and I legitimately think it's the best coffee I've ever had. If you get a chance to try some, I recommend it! I did promise "something more cheerful" yesterday , right? ## [pulse n pause](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/pulse-n-pause/) _2026-08-20 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ Just a brief note - Pulse N Pause Coffee has been doing pop-ups at Paper Son in SF on and off for the last couple of weeks and I legitimately think it's the best coffee I've ever had. If you get a chance to try some, I recommend it! I did promise "something more cheerful" yesterday , right? ## [Fixing tags on 17k mp3s](https://push.cx/fixing-tags-on-17k-mp3s) _2026-08-20 · Push.cx_ Beets is a python CLI tool for fixing up metadata in music collections. I wrote up a guide from my own use on my ~17k track collection because writing instructions is a good way to learn. But also: it’s a power tool built by hobbyists over 15+ years, so the UI is clunky and often misleading. It doesn’t really respect the user’s time and attention, but it’s the least bad tool I could find. ## [Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix](https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/19/three-ways-to-smuggle-sqlite-into-nix) _2026-08-20 · Farid Zakaria’s Blog_ The core of nixpkgs-multiverse, when you strip away the Nix API and the CLI, is an index. It is a map from (attribute, version) to the revision that shipped it as a JSON file.1 There are actually a few other files that drive other features such as the statistics or “fast mode”, but they are all JSON as well. ↩ ## [Bash over Node](https://nobe4.fr/posts/bash-over-node/) _2026-08-20 · nobe4_ A GitHub Action at work goes from a Node.js action to a composite action running a single bash script. The scenario is ideal: the action only does an HTTP request, JSON parsing, and some conditions. Before and after Before (Node) After (Bash) Files ~15 1 Size 137M 36K Runtime node20 composite + bash Dependencies 19 npm packages curl , jq , openssl Build step ncc bundle + commit dist/ none Lines of… ## [just reiterating](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2026-08-just-reiterating/) _2026-08-19 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ I had to have The Talk with my boss today. You know the one: Nobody's saying you have to use 'AI', but you really should experiment with frontier models. Almost everyone else on the team loves them. They're inevitable! Surely this will be the last job you'll ever have where chatbots aren't mandatory. Even if you aren't going to use them, at least stop complaining when people send you… ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6IdMPw9wZOdx) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [just reiterating](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2026-08-just-reiterating/) _2026-08-19 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ I had to have The Talk with my boss today. You know the one: Nobody's saying you have to use 'AI', but you really should experiment with frontier models. Almost everyone else on the team loves them. They're inevitable! Surely this will be the last job you'll ever have where chatbots aren't mandatory. Even if you aren't going to use them, at least stop complaining when people send you… ## [Poor Man's devenv](https://nobe4.fr/posts/poor-mans-devenv/) _2026-08-19 · nobe4_ devenv is great. Declarative dev shells, hooks, scripts, tasks. At work, using nix is fairly uncommon, so I don't want to litter everyone's repo with devenv or shell.nix files. Devenv can also be slow to init, and enter, especially on a fresh machine or after a devenv.lock update. Sometimes I just want a shell with the right tools, fast. I used to run nix-shell -p \ but after doing it 10… ## [nixpkgs-multiverse: the fewest nixpkgs](https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/17/nixpkgs-multiverse-the-fewest-nixpkgs) _2026-08-17 · Farid Zakaria’s Blog_ If you have not seen my previous posts, I have been working on nixpkgs-multiverse. It is a tool that lets you pin any package to any version it ever shipped, from one flake input.1 nixpkgs-multiverse sitis a nice website that makes the data browseable. ↩ ## [Better defaults for CSS](https://rossabaker.com/configs/website/style/reset/) _2026-08-17 · Ross A. Baker · Old man yells at Internet on Ross A. Baker (English)_ Default browser presentations have converged to mostly obsolete the venerable resets of yore . That does not mean they converged to an ideal place. Like my beloved Emacs, several defaults that are popular to change, but persist for backward compatibility. This layer is for fixing those. I want this layer to be unopinionated, but what's unopinionated tends to be a matter of opinion. It should at… ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117110286048989517) _2026-08-17 · Abhinav 🧭_ Sand and Sun # photography ## [Moving to a Lonely Forge](https://jackson.dev/post/moving-to-a-lonely-forge/) _2026-08-17 · patrick@jackson.dev (Patrick Jackson) · Patrick Jackson_ GitHub's down again today, so I think I'll spend the time moving to a self-hosted Forge. I've long been an advocate for decentralizing software development, but over the years it has always just made sense to keep the primary repos on GitHub. GitHub proved that grafting a social-network onto software development is extremely useful, and it makes the service verrry sticky. For developers, hopping… ## [DEFCON34 wrap-up](https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/16/defcon34-wrap-up) _2026-08-16 · Farid Zakaria’s Blog_ I recently came back from DEFCON34 and the nix.vegas community. The talks I gave are now online if you are interested in watching them. 🙌 ## [Parameterized Types and MSVC Complex Portability](https://rgoswami.me/posts/f2py-parameterized-types/) _2026-08-16 · Rohit Goswami_ Precision is not a number. It is a contract between the programmer and the hardware. Fortran encodes this contract in the type system. C and Python do not. Bridging both gaps at once is what this post covers. Background # Previous posts covered the three-layer architecture for wrapping non- bind(c) Fortran types. That pipeline assumed fixed types. So what happens when the Fortran type itself… ## [Confidence is not evidence](https://nobe4.fr/posts/confidence-is-not-evidence/) _2026-08-16 · nobe4_ Am I being told the truth? I have a tendency to enjoy grandiloquence; if someone speaks with certainty and flourished prose, I'm captivated 1 . I often mistake this awe-inspiring confidence for the delivery of truth. Like many, I used to follow online mentors . And I would, sometimes for hours, listen to their views. There was something deeply comforting about thinking that someone, somewhere, had… ## [How I Migrated From Authentik to Pocket ID With TinyAuth on NixOS](https://haseebmajid.dev/posts/2026-08-16-how-i-migrated-from-authentik-to-pocket-id-with-tinyauth-on-nixos/) _2026-08-16 · Me · Haseeb Majid_ A while back I wrote about how I set up Authentik forward auth with Traefik on NixOS . It worked, but over time Authentik got a bit heavy for what I actually needed from it, i.e. one identity provider and a forward auth in front of a few self-hosted apps. So I swapped it out for Pocket ID (a small OIDC provider) and TinyAuth (a tiny forward auth that talks to it). This post is the sequel to that… ## [Agentic Playwright testing with Nix](https://simonshine.dk/articles/agentic-playwright-testing-with-nix/) _2026-08-15 · Simon Shine_ I don't do much front-end web development these days, but I enable people who do. I use a lot of coding agents for my daily work with back-end APIs and service meshes. I've known for a long time that agentic workflows instrumenting Playwright to run headless browser tests based on prompts has advanced quite a lot. I just haven't got around to try it out. tl;dr Playwright, its browsers and its MCP… ## [Build-time systemd schedule](https://gvolpe.com/blog/systemd-schedule/) _2026-08-15 · Gabriel Volpe_ The System and Service Manager systemd provides the building blocks for Linux systems, and it’s the default in NixOS — though, there are a few alternatives such as finix and sixos that currently explore this design space. As someone currently self-hosting a few services on my NixOS servers, it’s become a constant in my toolkit. Current status of my servers, as generated by… ## [Project Commonplace](https://beathagenlocher.com/project-commonplace/) _2026-08-15 · Beat Hagenlocher_ ## [How I Implemented Authorization in My Go App With RLS (Postgres)](https://haseebmajid.dev/posts/2026-08-15-how-i-implemented-authorization-in-my-go-app-with-rls-postgres/) _2026-08-15 · Me · Haseeb Majid_ Introduction In this article, I will show you how I set up Authorization with Row Level Security (RLS) specifically with Postgres in my web app in Go. A quick distinction between: Authentication (AuthN): who are you? Authorization (AuthZ): what can you do? We will mostly be focusing on AuthZ in this article, what is the user allowed to do but mostly see and we will use my gardening app called… ## [The sad servers are smiling again](https://theobori.cafe/posts/sadservers/) _2026-08-15 · Théo Bori_ Introduction I was bored. I had the idea to look for a stimulating and challenging platform similar to LeetCode , but focused on Linux and DevOps. So I did some research and quickly found SadServers . I then decided to explore it and try to solve a few problems. This blog post is simply a brief review of my experience with SadServers. In the rest of this blog post, we'll refer to the problems as… ## [Shipping dotfiles with Nix](https://nobe4.fr/posts/shipping-dotfiles-with-nix/) _2026-08-15 · nobe4_ I manage a remote headless machine (brahms) with colmena . During deployment, I quickly hit a problem: my dotfiles live in a git repo on my workstation. Brahms has no copy of it, and I didn’t want to add a git clone as part of my setup. The solution turned out to be a one-line change in my Nix config. ln.nix primer After exploring several wrong approaches , I ended up using the… ## [nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode](https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/14/nixpkgs-multiverse-fast-mode) _2026-08-14 · Farid Zakaria’s Blog_ “The fastest evaluation is the one that never happens.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of Evaluation ## [(untitled)](https://wecoso.de/bm/i16IsO5jHOCdNeS86R60Gxlobtw6yqnK) _2026-08-14 · b(l|ookmark)ing_ lambdock is a Modern, hyper-hackable, Wayland-native desktop dock application ## [(untitled)](https://wecoso.de/bm/i16IsO5jHOCdNeS86R60Gxlobtw6yqnK) _2026-08-14 · b(l|ookmark)ing_ lambdock is a Modern, hyper-hackable, Wayland-native desktop dock application ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117093594990887981) _2026-08-14 · Abhinav 🧭_ Whatever happened to people caring about bus factor in software development. # rant # ai