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Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸

As far as I don't enable extensionPack which I pretty much only do to run Ubuntu so I can use my IDcard reader for shenanigans with the Estonian authorities...I don't get recompilation crap.

#Nixos#VirtualBox
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A new module is available: `programs.cudatext` CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal. It is open source project and can be used free of charge, even for business. It starts quite fast: ~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3GHz. It is extensible by Python add-ons: plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools. Syntax parser is feature-rich, from EControl engine.
#NixOS #Nix #HomeManager

Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸

#cobol on #nixos is so old, it's sitting next to your grandmother's pearls. Does not compile, and....I don't want to go through the headaches of writing nix files for a compiler. Which is fine. Doing it on OpenVMS seems more...authentic. Because of OpenVMS's batch facilities.

Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸

I googled "#cobol #nixos" and I was afraid it was going to card me. Like "Okay, why do you want an old fart language on a new OS" IDK. Because I'm odd that way? I float between languages, get pissed at all of them, and just go back to #pascal which is my old fart language.

Determinate Systems, Inc.

❄️ Flakes are one of the most debated parts of #Nix right now. Are they the future, or just extra complexity?

🗓️ Find out tomorrow in a free webinar with Luc Perkins where he'll walk you through a factual look at the #nixos technology and why DetSys believes in them so much, even with some downsides.

More info and registration here 👉 luma.com/995nq98k

luma.comNix flakes in practice: what they solve and why they matter · Zoom · LumaNix flakes are one of the most discussed and debated features in the Nix ecosystem. Some see them as essential for reproducibility and collaboration, while…
Zororg

I tried out Noctalia (a desktop quickshell) in Niri WM. All this times I was using no status bar, but I thought why not see something that works OOTH.

Boy-o-boy, just `nix run` and noctalia gave me what I wanted which just made sense OOTH (just like niriWM did)

github.com/noctalia-dev/noctal

A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland, built with Quickshell. - noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell
GitHubGitHub - noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland, built with Quickshell.A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland, built with Quickshell. - noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell
#niriwm#noctalia#nixos
Shoe Bill

I guess I should do an #introduction post, again, now that this instance is actually working and it's not looking like I'm gonna have to torch it and start over again, again.

Hello and welcome to my followers—745, so far, last I checked. Not nearly as many as some; a few more than I deserve, probably.

If you think you know me by some other name, you're probably right. I wouldn't say I'm exactly new to the #Fediverse, but I'm still newer than a lot of people who are likely to read this. I'll take any reasonable advice from anyone. This is the second #GotoSocial instance I've self-hosted on my own hardware. As of the exact moment I'm writing this, I'm in the process of of migrating from my account on the first one.

As far as software, I've been on #NixOS for a few years now, and #Qtile with the #Wayland backend for almost as long. #XMonad was my first #TilingWindowManager properly; tried #i3 before that, wasn't impressed. Give me #Vim at the very least, or preferably #Neovim. Current terminal emulator is #WezTerm.

GED in 2011 at the age of 17, no formal education beyond that.

I have #ADHD and #TouretteSyndrome, both diagnosed when I was 24.

Hobbies include but are not limited to collecting #rocks, watching and (and this is putting it charitably) reviewing #movies, and #unicycle.

I'm sure there's more; feel free to ask.

Thank you.

Niko🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

GAMERS THE NIX ELECTION VOTER REGISTRATION IS UP RIGHT NOW, GO, GO, GO!!!!
WOKE MUST WIN!!!

discourse.nixos.org/t/the-elec

NixOS Discourse · The Election Committee announces the second Steering Committee electionOne year has passed since the Nix community voted in the very first Nix Steering Committee. As some of their terms are coming to an end, the community must once again cast their ballots to form the next SC. Call to action If you are an automatically eligible voter, add your email to the voter list: SC-election-2025/eligible.csv at ec4e2b5336eeea04d1e1003991a2f0f6278587b1 · NixOS/SC-election-2025 · GitHub If you are not automatically eligible but significantly contributed to the official proje...
#nix#NixLang#lix
baloo

My old team is recruiting for a customer reliability engineering role.
I had an absolute blast working with those folks. Can't recommend enough.

This is a somewhat large (!) nix-based deployment.

smartrecruiters.com/AristaNetw

Feel free to reach out! Would be happy to connect.

Arista NetworksSenior Customer Reliability Engineer (CRE)Company Description: Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We  believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do. Job Description: The OpportunityThis is not a traditional operations role. You will inherit a set of critical, manual, and hands-on operational responsibilities essential to our customers' success. We need you to help lead the effort to systematically dismantle this operational burden through automation, tooling, and systems. You will have a collaborative team of excellent engineers and a counterpart to you to work with on both the manual toil and the systems we need to engineer.The short-term needs are: manual deployments, reactive troubleshooting, and on-call escalations. But we need you to help us build a system where programmatic solutions have replaced human intervention. You must have the pragmatism to manage the current reality and the systematic impatience to build its replacement.Success in this role requires a dual mindset. You must be a skilled incident leader who can stabilize a crisis and a deliberate systems architect who can prevent the next one. You will work closely with our internal tools, platform, and product engineering teams to channel your direct operational knowledge into durable, long-term solutions.What You’ll DoYour work will follow a deliberate trajectory from reactive execution to proactive design.Phase 1: Stabilize and Map (First 3-6 Months). You will embed with the team, taking ownership of the existing operational workload alongside the other customer SRE person covering the India time zone and product engineers. This includes customer deployments, upgrades, and incident response. Your initial goal is to achieve stability while mapping the landscape of our operational toil.Phase 2: Automate and Influence (Months 6-18). Armed with your map of toil, you will begin to automate. You will write code, build tooling, and deploy declarative infrastructure to eliminate the most critical operational burdens. For larger projects, you will act as a primary stakeholder, providing clear requirements to our internal tooling and platform teams and ensuring their solutions meet the operational need. Your success will be measured by a demonstrable reduction in the overall support effort, fewer pages, support escalations, and manual tasks.Phase 3: Architect and Evangelize (Year 2+). With the most acute operational pains addressed, your focus will shift to architectural concerns. You will define and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs), influence the design of new products for operability, and help instill SRE principles throughout the engineering organization. Qualifications: DevOps and SRE Proficiency* You must have a strong background in Site Reliability Engineering or a closely related DevOps function. You also have a strong command of Linux systems administration and possess an understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing). Customer-Facing Experience* You must have experience working directly with external customers to solve difficult technical problems. Your communication must be clear, empathetic, and precise. Cloud Infrastructure Expertise* You need production experience with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS. You should be proficient in its core concepts and services (VPC, EC2, IAM, S3) and have experience building and managing infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform. Monitoring and Observability* You will be responsible for both building and using our observability stack. This requires hands-on experience instrumenting applications and managing the telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces. * A core part of the role is then applying this data to debug complex production incidents, understand system behavior, and define SLOs. Automation and Software Development* You must be proficient in writing code to automate operational tasks. Expertise in a high-level language like Python or Go is required, as are strong shell scripting skills (e.g., Bash). We have a diverse tech stack including Python, Scala, C++, Haskell, Rust, PureScript, etc which requires experience with monitoring and debugging a complex system using system tools, command line utilities, networking debug tools, and filtering complex logs. Preferred SkillsProficiency with Kafka, Postgres, nginx, systemd, etc is a plus* We use this software extensively in the product in customer environments. Experience here is not required but it is a plus. Proficiency in Nix and NixOS is a plus* We use Nix/NixOS extensively so knowing them helps, but they will not play a large role in your initial responsibilities.  We'll train you on the job if you've never used Nix before. Exposure to or proficiency in functional programming languages and paradigms is a plus* We value functional programming-oriented principles (compositionality, immutability, etc). You are not required to know functional languages, but some exposure is a plus as is a willingness to learn but this is not a requirement. ValuesWe value compassion* We believe our mission is one of service to others, whether that is protecting our customers from harm or empowering other developers to do work they are proud of. We value humility* Humility matters to everyone on the engineering team in Arista NDR and we accept the sobering reality that we as humans make mistakes, forget things easily, and have over-inflated confidence in our grasp of complexity. We value humility because we think it leads to better solutions (social or technological) and better understanding. We value reliability* We believe that software (any form of automation, really), should free people to do their most creative work. Therefore, we value low maintenance software and technology that empowers us to write it. This is a hybrid work environment where office presence maybe required 1-2 days a week.#LI-SP1 Additional Information: Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer.  Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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