NixCon 2026 Day Ⅰ

NixCon 2026 attracts a diverse group of attendees, including developers, consultants, and enthusiasts, all eager to share their experiences and insights about the Nix ecosystem. Many participants express their excitement about networking opportunities and the chance to meet like-minded individuals.

Felix Schröter, a new independent consultant, discusses his focus on Nix, NixOS, and Rust, highlighting his hopes for potential clients who require deep technical expertise. Diego Turchetto shares his journey with NixOS, emphasizing the need for better training for system administrators to ease the transition to NixOS, which he believes has a steep learning curve.

Antonio Gela Meris reflects on his unique path to using Nix professionally, having learned it on the job, while Yifei Sun showcases his project Atelier, a tool designed to replace the now-defunct Garnix for building Nix packages. The discussions also touch on the importance of community engagement and the need for more inclusivity and support for newcomers to the Nix ecosystem.

Overall, the conference serves as a platform for sharing knowledge, addressing challenges, and fostering collaboration among Nix users, with many attendees expressing optimism for the future of Nix and its applications in various fields.

Pre-roll transcript:

Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. Podcast gear sponsored by nixbuild.net. ---

NixCon 2026 Sponsored by nixbuild.net Felix Schröter https://nixos.org/community/commercial-support/ atvari — Software & Cloud Engineering Consulting Diego Turchetto

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Yifei Sun garnix | the nix CI atelier the talk Lisanna Dettwyler nix-scheduler-hook The new .devShell interface for nix develop The panel at NixCon parzivale finix finix talk the tangled talk RTUnreal

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Scrumplex fetchPnpmCache: init alexandru0-dev (Alexandru Nechita) Where would better Windows support in Nix help you? vimjoyer (Yurii Melnychenko) THE BEST WAY TO LEARN NIX - YouTube djacu (Daniel Baker) Community Survey Branding Nix 2.35 Revel are hiring tfc (Jacek Galowicz) Nixcademy NixOS Tests nspawn containers KiaraGrouwstra (kiara)

GrimmTheShrimp (Grimmauld) Tools:nix-check-deps (find unnecessary deps) nix-drv-index (find reverse deps "worst offenders") diffoscope (verify dep removal doesn't result in change)

Docs:pkg removal broken pkg removal RFC "problem" infrastructure RFC

Ongoing removals (non-exhaustive): gtk2, PCRE, fuse2, vendored electron, (no libgcrypt tracking issue yet) Searches"needs cleanup"+"tracking" Cleanup PRs (assuming proper tagging) "picking up garbage" project board some use "topic: hygiene" and "topic: old versions"

cyclic-pentane (pentane) nix-community/robotnix ForgeFed

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