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Another yer, another instance of my NixOS journey log (2025 instance).

I have been using sway for a while. sway is good.

A while ago I explored easy hacks on how to encapsulate SSH into HTTPS on apache2.

NixOS-26.05 is around the corner!

Almost exactly a year passed since my previous pile report. gcc-16 was branched off from master and will receive only regression fixes. master is called gcc-17 now.

It’s another story of a mysterious memory corruption being debugged.

TL;DR If you are a PGP newbie (like me) then consider reading sq user documentation book!

Tl;DR: nixpkgs changed the way it exports data to repology and many packages need fixing In nixpkgs/451424 nixpkgs changed substantially how it exports data about available packages.

my tmux setup I use tmux by default for all my terminal sessions since around 2016 (almost 10 years!)

This time I managed to finish all AoC challenges within a week of problems being published.

It is November again!

Almost a year later I finally finished AoC 2024: https://adventofcode.com/2024.

background I’ve been using binutils-2.45 against local nixpkgs checkout for a while to weed out minor problems in other packages.

A quiz Let’s start from a quiz: is this single file program a valid c++ program?

I build a lot of nix packages locally.

It’s another yearly instance of my NixOS journey (2024 instance).

Two years have passed since the last issue of ::nix-guix overlay updates.

This post is about sort tool from GNU coreutils.

It’s May 1 and that means NixOS-25.05 is almost there.

Tl;DR I switched from firefox to chromium as a primary web browser on my desktop.

8 more months have passed since my previous pile report. gcc-15 was branched off from master and will receive only regression fixes. master is called gcc-16 now.

This is another February story about text editors similar to the vim one.

Today I found another source of non-determinism in nix expression language.

TL;DR Did you ever have to deal with a huge list of conflicts on rebase caused by automatic reformatting of an upstream codebase?

a contrived example Let’s start from a quiz.

TL;DR: ski-1.5.0 is available for download!

Tl;DR In November gcc merged the switch from C17 (-std=gnu17) to C23 (-std=c23) language standard used by default for C code.

ZHF (or Zero Hydra Failures) is the time when most build failures are squashed before final NixOS-24.11 release (see full release schedule).

Tl;DR: xmms2-0.9.4 is out and you can get it at https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel/releases/tag/0.9.4!

About 4 months have passed since gcc-14.1.0 release.