Tag: #nix
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 3 posts
Bus Factor Is Not the Number of People Who Know the Code but the Number of People Who Can Decide
The Nixpkgs core team disbanded after ten months. In a repository with thousands of contributors, the people holding delegated decision-making authority numbered two, and when those two stepped down that jurisdiction was
2026-08-09 · 9 min read #devops#open-source#governance#nix#supply-chainNix 2.35 Copies Flake Sources to the Store More Lazily — a 6-Year-8-Month Issue, and the Path Upstream Chose Instead of Lazy Trees
The first highlight of Nix 2.35.0, tagged July 13, 2026, is "Sources are copied to the store more lazily." The issue this one line closed, 3121, was opened by Eelco Dolstra himself on October 7, 2019, and closed on June
2026-07-16 · 14 min read #nix#reproducible-builds#build-systems#developer-experience#open-source2026 Systems Languages and Package Managers - Zig, C++26, Carbon, Mojo, Swift Server, Kotlin, C# .NET 9, uv, pnpm, Bun Deep Dive
A 2026 overview of modern systems languages and package managers. Covers Zig 0.14, C++26, Carbon, Mojo 1.x, Swift on server, Kotlin/Ktor, C 13/.NET 9, plus uv, pnpm 10, Bun, Pixi, and Nix in one place.
2026-05-16 · 11 min read #systems-languages#zig#cpp26#carbon#mojo