News

• NixCon 2018 videos of talks

• Eris: A simple binary cache server

• News on the security team

• Language Server Protocol for Nix using HNix

• NixOS mailserver 2.2.0

Blogs

• The NixOps resources.machines option

• Auto patching prebuilt binary software

Jobs

• Engineer at Mercury

Mercury is hiring a generalist engineer in SF. Mercury uses Nix for development, Hydra for CI, and runs on NixOS on AWS.

Call for participation

• Deployment Working Group

• nixdoc to generate documentation for Nix library functions

NixOS/nixpkgs#49275 for the first generated documentation files and NixOS/nixpkgs#49383 for updated doc strings. Rendered example available here.

• Nix docker image built with Nix

• Easy PureScript Nix

• filterSourceGitignore: Automatic filterSource by parsing .gitignore files from within nix

nix-gitignore tries to convert the fnmatch(3) strings in a .gitignore file to perl regexes valid in nix’s match. filterSourceGitignore opts for translation to nix boolean predicates instead and implements a subset of the gitignore logic as nix functions, aborting for unsupported parts.

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