Tristan Ross

Nix Vegas - The road to rebuilding the world Looking back at DEF CON's first Nix Community

The retrospective for Nix Vegas 2025 is live. The photos & talks are also available on our Immich instance.

nix.vegas/blog/2025-re...

Photos: relive.nix.vegas/share/4X5iSI...
Talks: relive.nix.vegas/share/qRwLI0...

⚠️ Schedule and speaker bios for #NixVegas at #DEFCON are up on our site and Hacker Tracker!

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While you're at it, check out our artwork by Kenz Tobias and grab some stickers while you're watching talks:

nix.vegas/blog/artwork

Flox | Your dev environment, everywhere Manage and share development environments with all the frameworks and libraries you need, then publish artifacts anywhere. Harness the power of Nix.

We are glad to announce a software sponsor, @flox.dev. Flox is a platform that lets developers and operators focus on building quickly with reproducible environments that span the enterprise SDLC

Visit Flox's website at flox.dev.

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Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 33: Call for Speakers With Nix, you don't even have to imagine that you can build the digital commons from scratch. One change to the bootstrap, and you'll rebuild the worl...

📢 Major #NixVegas speaker announcement: @flox.dev has generously offered to sponsor a limited number of DEF CON Human badges for accepted speakers giving talks of 30 minutes or more. CFP will continue until July 5th.

Submit your talks here: sessionize.com/NixVegas

#Nix #NixOS #NixVegas #DEFCON

We are glad to announce a hardware sponsor, Next Computing. They are providing hardware to assist us with the demo we will be showing off at Nix Vegas.

Visit Next Computing's website at nextcomputing.com.

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Ampere Cloud Computing Solutions for Efficient and Scalable Performance Discover how Ampere's unique design delivers unmatched efficiency, meeting the growing demand for cloud computing while consuming minimal resources.

We are glad to announce a hardware sponsor, Ampere Computing. They are providing hardware to assist us with the demo we will be showing off at Nix Vegas during DEF CON 33.

Visit Ampere Computing's website at amperecomputing.com.

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system76

We are glad to announce a hardware sponsor, @system76.bsky.social‬. They are providing hardware to assist us with the demo we will be showing off at Nix Vegas during DEF CON 33.

Visit System76's website at system76.com.

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We are glad to announce a hardware sponsor, Protectli. They will be providing us with hardware to run our mesh network setup at Nix Vegas at DEF CON 33.

Visit Protectli's website at protectli.com.

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Love Nix & DEF CON? Want to share something interesting? Our CFP is open today and ends on July 5th. Be sure to register on Sessionize.

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Nix Vegas - Adventures in NixOS Mesh Networking at DEF CON A DEF CON Community for contributors and users of Nix and NixOS.

We just launched a blog on the Nix Vegas website. We are sharing our experience in mesh networking with NixOS, which we will be using this year.

nix.vegas/blog/dc32-ni...

nix-repl> "Hello world"

I've got the DeepComputing RISC-V laptop on order now. 8 Sifive P550 cores sounds exciting.

North County NUG #2
🗓 April 20, 2025 | ⏰ 18:00–20:00
📍 Windmill Food Hall, Carlsbad, CA
The North County Nix User Group is back! hether you're deep into NixOS or just curious about declarative development, you're warmly invited.

northcounty.socal-nug.com/events/2025-...

YouTube video by Tech Over Tea #268 Long Awaited NixOS Episode | Tristan Ross

Recently, I was on Brodie Robertson's podcast, Tech Over Tea. I have fun talking about Nix and NixOS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdZv...

I have been trying to work on a full LLVM bootstrap.

GitHub - RossComputerGuy/nixpkgs-llvm-ws: Flake workspace / repo to stage and track Nixpkgs/NixOS's ability to be compiled completely with LLVM Flake workspace / repo to stage and track Nixpkgs/NixOS's ability to be compiled completely with LLVM - RossComputerGuy/nixpkgs-llvm-ws

This github.com/RossComputer...

Linux Kernel Toolchain Selection Fixes by blitz · Pull Request #390631 · NixOS/nixpkgs This is another approach to hopefully finally defeat the compiler/toolchain selection bugs in our Linux kernel derivations. See #389485 for a previous approach at fixing this. I added basic tests t...

Hey @x86.lol, I know you've worked on github.com/NixOS/nixpkg.... When do you think you could get back to working on it? Are you okay if I push to your PR? I need this working soon heh.

A few SELinux on NixOS updates:

- Minimized 2nd boot/activation times in module
- New VM test
- Fixed up some of the python userspace tools

tristanxr.com/post/selinux...

Let's make NixOS 25.05 another great release.

numinit, Morgan, is an awesome guy. I've used his mesh network which runs off Protectli boxes and it works great.

We've got another Nix user who's a Subatomo.

Got back last night from Planet Nix and SCALE 22x. It was awesome to see System76 and Ampere Computing. They were gracious enough to provide us with a Thelio Astra to display at Planet Nix and the NixOS booth at SCALE.

We are pleased to introduce Tristan Ross (@thecomputerguy.bsky.social), a member of the LLVM team and a Nix maintainer, who will be discussing 'The Nix PR Pipeline'

nix gf an meme based of gentoo gf (im sorry for the bad alt text)

can't believe i haven't posted this yet

Where are the #nixos Stan's at....

I've got 3 possible talks for Planet Nix.

TIL padoru padoru is just jingle bells in Japanese

I plan on running for a position on the NixOS Foundation in the future. I've mentioned it on Twitter. I'm hoping to make new connections which the community could offer to help spread Nix. I'm also looking to clean up the drama.

YouTube video by PhanthakanXD [SFM/Touhou] Brain Implosion Energy

youtu.be/azKiV4fMksY