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Translation·bybob_chen·3 hours agoText post
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Internals·bydev_zhou·just nowText post
Building an internal platform with nixos-tools from scratch: architecture and decision log
About 3000 words. Read the summary table first, then decide whether to go deeper.
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Translation·bybob_chen·3 hours agoExternal link
I built a small tool with nixos-tools — code is open, feedback welcome
Conclusion first, then the full reproduction steps and raw logs. Counter-examples welcome.
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Tutorial·bybob_chen·2 hours agoLockedText post
I upgraded our production nixos-tools and hit these 11 landmines
Happy to be convinced otherwise in the comments.
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PinnedTooling·bynikic·3 days agoText post
The edge cases the nixos-tools docs never spell out
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Open source·byran_bo·3 days agoText post
Postmortem: how we exhausted the connection pool in nixos-tools
Conclusion first, then the full reproduction steps and raw logs. Counter-examples welcome.
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Internals·bybob_chen·yesterdayExternal link
Six rules for error handling in nixos-tools that I settled on
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Discussion·bykernel_panic·1 hour agoText post
Help: nixos-tools fails to start intermittently in containers, logs inside
Conclusion first, then the full reproduction steps and raw logs. Counter-examples welcome.
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Translation·byran_bo·just nowPoll
Ten nixos-tools anti-patterns — how many are you guilty of?
Happy to be convinced otherwise in the comments.
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Open source·bytang_hao·3 days agoLockedText post
War story: nixos-tools timezone handling almost cost us a full day of billing
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Internals·bykite·3 days agoWith image
Choosing nixos-tools: I turned 5 options into a side-by-side comparison
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Jobs·bytang_hao·2 hours agoWith image
Why does nixos-tools use twice the memory of comparable tools?
I attached the relevant test cases so you can just run them.
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Announcement·byops_wang·5 minutes agoWith image
Hiring: remote nixos-tools engineer (full-time, long-term)
Conclusion first, then the full reproduction steps and raw logs. Counter-examples welcome.
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Review·bywinter·3 hours agoWith image
Why this nixos-tools pattern gets slow in production: a source-level explanation
About 3000 words. Read the summary table first, then decide whether to go deeper.
This is the community home (/en/c/nixos-tools). Pick any item in the megamenu above and the centre column swaps to that slug’s own SFC page while both side columns stay put; switch to another community and the whole theme colour changes with it.