Thoughts on NixOS, software supply chains, and reproducible builds.
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...
11 min readThe 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 readIntroduction 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...
35 min readBuild 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...
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