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Our meeting spot is located in the city of Pasadena in your Earth zone of Los Angeles on March 5th-6th, 2026, which our instruments have identified as the largest spontaneous concentration of Nix packages at rest. Come to SCALE and Nix with us.

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#PlanetNix Speaker Announcement! ❄️

Please welcome Ashley Mensah, Developer Relations Engineer at NetBird, working on open source networking and developer experience.

Ashley will give a talk on Declarative Mesh Networking with #Nix πŸš€

Join us on March 5–6 in Pasadena!

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12.02.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix πŸ‘‰ @wespayne

Wes will perform live surgery on ELF binaries to make them truly portable. He'll explore using patchelf to rewrite dynamic loaders, convert absolute paths to portable $ORIGIN lookups, and even patch Python interpreters to load system libraries.

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13.02.2026 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎀 #PlanetNix Speaker announcement!

Spencer Willett is an embedded software engineer with a background in physics and computer science.

This talk is a set of fun, practical adventures with machine learning on edge compute running NixOS.

Don’t miss it!

Sign up today πŸ‘‰ buff.ly/ZchEOVB

17.02.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PlanetNix Speaker πŸ‘‰ Craig Jackson!

His talk illustrates a novel use case for NixOSβ€”a cloud-native deployment model that treats edge nodes as declarative, reproducible systems while preserving the flexibility required for real-world networking and hardware constraints.

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17.02.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join Stormy Peters (Head of Open Source Marketing and Strategy, AWS) and James Bayer (Product Leader, Flox) at #PlanetNix~

They’ll explore what it takes to make #reproducibility the norm, the tradeoffs involved, and why it matters in both enterprises and open source.

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18.02.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix Speaker πŸ‘‰ Leonard Sheng Sheng Lee, Platform Pipeline Plumber.

Ever looked inside /nix/store and felt immediate confusion? You aren't alone.

This talk strips away the jargon to explain how #Nix actually works using a simple metaphor: a giant, immutable LEGO set.

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19.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix Speaker Announcement!

George is an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying computer science and physics.

Join us for a discussion on using Nix to package the seemingly unpackageable!

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20.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎀 Audrey Dutcher & Artemis Tosini at #PlanetNix 2026!

NixOS has always locked you into Linux, but what if you could run NixOS on a FreeBSD file server, an OpenBSD firewall, or even an ancient NetBSD VAX?

Register now & check out the full agenda!

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23.02.2026 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix Announcement!

Tom Lubenow is a software engineer at PDT Partners.

His talk dives into incremental, per-translation-unit build graphs in native Nix.

Join us!

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23.02.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PlanetNix is in two weeks and we’re excited to meet you all in Pasadena! Here’s a little swag preview 😍

20.02.2026 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix 2026 Speaker Announcement!

Join Surma and Eelco for their talk: builtins.wasm: Nix Meets WebAssembly.

More πŸ‘‰ planetnix.com

11.02.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix Speaker Announcement! ❄️

Please welcome Morgan Jones (Viasat, Nix Vegas) who will give a talk: Flack the Planet: Turning flakes into the web framework no one asked for

Not enough Nix? Fixed.

Join us: planetnix.com

09.02.2026 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix Speaker alert! ❄️

Bernardo will share:

βœ… what Nix already gets right for distributed builds
βœ… the practical options teams use today to distribute builds
βœ… and how the ecosystem could evolve to properly fill this gap

Join us: planetnix.com

09.02.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Speaker alert! ❄️

We're excited to announce that @sheeeng.bsky.social joins #PlanetNix with a practical guide many of us have needed more than once.

Join us!

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05.02.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎀 PlanetNix 2026 speaker highlight

Sam Fu (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic) is joining PlanetNix with a deep-dive war story:

Nix Builds 🀝 K8s Dev Environments: A Love Hate Relationship in 5 Acts

See you in Pasadena? πŸ‘€

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04.02.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎀 New PlanetNix 2026 speaker!

Jacek Galowicz will give a talk: Under the Hood of the NixOS Test Driver: Architecture, Containers, and Hardware Passthrough

Sign up today πŸ‘‰ planetnix.com

02.02.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Automation decides which alerts you see.
When pipelines drift, trust breaks fast.

In this talk, Tanisha Sharma (AI DevRel at SuprSend) shows how #Nix makes notification pipelines reproducible and predictable.

See you in March?

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31.01.2026 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix2026 Agenda is LIVE!

Two days, two tracks, with a mix of talks and hands-on workshops focused on real use cases and getting hands-on with #Nix.

Check out the schedule and save your spot!

planetnix.com/agenda

30.01.2026 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join Nix Foundation President @refroni.bsky.social and industry legend @kelseyhightower.com for a discussion on Nix, AI, and the present and future of the SDLC!

Save your spot and join us in Pasadena!

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27.01.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Join Priya Ananthasankar, Principal Software Engineer at @microsoft.com, at #Planet Nix 2026 to explore how scaling distributed systems breaks traditional container workflows.

See you there?

Sign up now: planetnix.com

23.01.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re excited to present our next speaker πŸ‘‰ @refroni.bsky.social , CEO & Co-founder of @flox.dev and the President at the NixOS Foundation.

Ron will share an update on the health of the #Nix ecosystem and what it takes to keep it secure and sustainable.

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22.01.2026 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re excited to present our next speaker at #PlanetNix 2026 β€” @refroni.bsky.social, CEO & Co-founder of @flox.dev and the President at NixOS Foundation.

He'll cover:

❄️ Key milestones from 2025
❄️ Progress across infrastructure and governance
❄️ and what’s ahead for #Nix

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21.01.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re thrilled to announce the next PlanetNix speaker: Burke Libbey, Principal Engineer at Shopify.

In his talk, "Tectonix: The bedrock of Shopify’s monorepo", you’ll get a tour of the build system he’s building for Shopify’s β€œWorld” monorepo.

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15.01.2026 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last call: PlanetNix 2026 CFP!

You don’t need to be a Nix expert to submit.

You do need a #Nix story! ❄️

Talks + workshops of all levels welcome: from production #Nix to computing adventures.

CFP closes tomorrow! πŸ˜…

sessionize.com/planet-nix-2...

14.01.2026 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re excited to welcome Graham Bennett, Managing Director at PDT Partners!

The NVIDIA DGX Spark is a desktop AI workstation. In this talk, Graham will show how NixOS makes it much easier to install, configure, and run AI workflows on it.

Join us planetnix.com

13.01.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re excited to welcome our next PlanetNix speaker Alex Kretzschmar!

In this talk, Alex shares how he thinks about where different parts of a setup belong and how he decides what goes in Nix and what stays in Docker.

More announcements coming soon πŸ‘€

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10.01.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#PlanetNix 2026: First Speakers Announced!

We’re excited to welcome our first speakers to PlanetNix 2026:

⭐ Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com
⭐ Priya Ananthasankar
⭐ Stormy Peters
⭐ Ron Efroni @refroni.bsky.social

Submit your #Nix talk today πŸ‘‰ sessionize.com/planet-nix-2...

09.01.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our first #PlanetNix 2026 speakers…

@kelseyhightower.com, Ron Efroni, and Rok Garbas!

And we’re just getting started.

Want to join them on stage?

Submit your #Nix talk, CFP is open now!

sessionize.com/planet-nix-2...

11.12.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals Planet Nix is an event hosted by Flox and co-located with the SCALE conference in Pasadena, CA.We are hoping to create an event with something for tho...

We’re looking for talks and workshops from all corners of the #Nix community! ❄️

This year we’ll have two tracks over two days, with a mix of talks and hands-on sessions.

Got something to share?

Submit your proposal!

02.12.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals Planet Nix is an event hosted by Flox and co-located with the SCALE conference in Pasadena, CA.We are hoping to create an event with something for tho...

We're back! CFP for #PlanetNix 2026 is open!

Two days. Two tracks. Talks, workshops, lightning talks…and everything #Nix!

Submit your session! sessionize.com/planet-nix-2...

20.11.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0