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For anyone reading this and jumping to a broader conclusion: the Nixpkgs core team disbanding does not mean Nixpkgs or Nix is dying. It does mean that this particular structure was…

Huge plus to anyone interested in the space to check out what Graham built here! If anyone is also interested on Nix/CUDA/Capital Markets/Flox, we recently did another case study i…

Sharing something I'm personally excited about that's made possible with a lot of Nix/NixOS (nixpkgs) in the background by the Flox eng team. Was initially built for devX but is ha…

We've been working quite a bit on bringing in Nix/Nixpkg/Nixos based architecture into the space of bringing in determinism to the baseline infrastructure of our AI stacks. This al…

Asking this with a bias since I work on Nixos.org and Flox.dev - How is the team thinking about the infra layers underneath these models? Any priority or reason to imbed determinis…

What's the best practice right now for setting these up? We've been primarily using Nix/Flox to set up the models pretty quickly and at least with minimized amount of commands(bias…

A small note of amazement from Nix/Flox person here. Incredible to see this release and congrats! Mike, you're an allstar for so many years of contributions!

I.e. is this overhyped?

I feel we should definitely be digging way beyond the SBOM... but also wondering if the forecasting in the general ecosystem is on point or not.

Ron from Flox here. We recently wrote this piece on how Nix can address the emerging CVE remediation problem. We are curious to hear any feedback on our approach.

[Disclaimer: biased Flox/Nix person] There's a lot of reasons to use Nix instead of or WITH Homebrew depending on your exact needs. Where it’s paid off for me (and where I think it…

Highly recommend to check this out, the blog/Arnoult does an amazing job in very succinctly breaking down the aspects of SBOMs in a Nix based infra approach. We can go way beyond t…

And I'm back in the land of the living. Can't really beat a response from Justin Cormack!

Jotting down a few quick thoughts here but we can totally go deep. This is something Michael Brantley started working on a few months ago to test out how to make it super easy to e…

online community love was not in my cards going into day 3 of a newborn but I'll take it + definitely needed! thank you!

Yes, this hits the nail on the head. We’ve seen the same explosion in image size and rebuild complexity, especially with AI/ML workloads where Python + CUDA + random pip wheels + s…

Going to sound weird but with both my hats on I super appreciate this perspective. I can only speak to some areas of Nix and Flox obviously and I know folks are looking into doing …

Ron from Flox here, woke up to feed a brand new 3 day old to see this here! On about 3 hours of sleep (over the lat 48 hours) but excited to try and answer some questions! Feel fre…