birkeyMar 22

Why I love NixOS

https://www.birkey.co/2026-03-22-why-i-love-nixos.html

Why I love NixOS

Why I love NixOS is really about the Nix package manager, reproducibility, and sane system management in the LLM coding era.

Show threadepolanski

What I like most about nixos is that you can have deterministically cached packages you don't need to rebuild every time in your ci.

It's also simple to setup dev environments with nix.

Mar 22 at 5:55pmWeb
Show threadbikelangMar 22
Nix in CI seems like a really excellent match. I don’t care much about the ATproto space - but Tangled has built their CI system on Nix and I find that really compelling. CI Caching is just awful with GitHub actions - so it made me disappointed that Forgejo went that route.
Show threadNorfairMar 22
This is exactly why I made https://nix-ci.com/
And it supports Forgejo, GitHub, and GitLab.
NixCI

Locally-reproducible zero-config hosted continuous integration for Nix