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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 2 posts

Nix 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-source
Debian Has Started Blocking Unreproducible Packages From Migrating to Testing — What the Gate Actually Blocks, and What It Doesn't
On May 9, 2026, Debian's release team wired its migration software, britney, to reproducibility checks. The sentence that hit the mailing list the next day was "Debian must ship reproducible packages," but what's actuall
2026-07-16 · 20 min read #devops #reproducible-builds #debian #supply-chain #ci-cd

Nix 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