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My hopes and plans for the NixOS community

In this article I present the reasons for my application to the NixOS Steering Committee and my vision for its future.

NixOSCommunitySteering Committee

Artiflakery, an easy way to distribute static Nix flake artifacts

In this post, I introduce Artiflakery, a tool I created for on the fly delivery of Nix flakes artifacts.

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

In this article, I showcase a method to leverage reproducible builds to build trust in untrusted release assets. I claim that this method would have detected the 2024 xz backdoor attack.

NixOS Reproducible-Builds Software Supply ChainXZ Backdoor

Is NixOS truly reproducible?

How reproducible is NixOS? In this article I describe the results of a research work studying the evolution of bitwise reproducibility over time in the NixOS distribution, from 2017 to 2023.