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2025-09-29NixOSCommunitySteering-Committee

My hopes and plans for the NixOS community

About me I'm excited to share that I'm running for a seat on the NixOS Steering Committee. Before diving into my motivations, I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself --- especially for those...

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2025-05-21NixFlakesWebserver

Artiflakery, an easy way to distribute static Nix flake artifacts

The problem of slides distribution... As a PhD student, I often do presentations. A lot of presentations. In 2024 alone, I gave about 15 talks in different public venues, with a different slideset...

3 min read
2025-03-20NixOSReproducible-BuildsSoftware-Supply-ChainXZ-Backdoor

How NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor for the benefit of all

Introduction In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz, a (de)-compression software that is regularly used at the core of Linux distributions to unpack source tarballs of packaged software. The...

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2025-01-27NixOSReproducibilitySoftware-Supply-Chain

Is NixOS truly reproducible?

Build reproducibility is often considered as a de facto feature provided by functional package managers like Nix. Although the functional package manager model has important assets in the quest for...

8 min read