Nix Conference Insights

We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.

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• Flox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches.
• Planet Nix
• Talk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on Nix
• Talk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It
• Talk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable Flakes
• Talk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
• Eelco Dolstra - Configurable Flakes
• Aneesh Agrawal - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
• Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
• Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
• Why do people love NixOS so much? | Mike Kelly
• How to convert an old ChromeBook into a NixBook | Mike Kelly
• Olympia Mike's Nixbook | GitHub
• Flox | Nix in the Wild
• The NixOS Foundation Board Announced
• Guilty Pleasures | The Launch 🚀 13
• Pick: pyatv: A client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices — This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.
• Pick: atv-desktop-remote: A simple app to allow you to control an Apple TV from your desktop — The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.