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   by ronef 2y ago

   I've run into similar pain points with GitHub Actions in past roles but I still very much use them/get value. One approach that's helped us at Flox is indeed using Nix and we've now seen customers start leveraging that.
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   Flox Catalog: 150k+ open source packages powered by NixPkgs(hub.flox.dev)

   1 points by ronef 2y ago|0 comments
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   by ronef 2y ago

   To add on to this, more than just useful, incredible team building it!
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   by ronef 2y ago

   Awesome to see this on here! We've seen a lot of comments talk about Nix versus other tools recently and wanted to share some of our thoughts on it. We like seeing Nix meet developers where they are, integrating into our existing workf
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   It's Time to Bring Nix to Work(flox.dev)

   9 points by ronef 2y ago|0 comments
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   by ronef 2y ago

   Hey from Berlin! I'm Ron one of the founders at Flox and also board member of the NixOS Foundation. Just noticed folks are talking here and that's super exciting! We are all in the midst of the yearly NixCon so apologies if I&#x27
7. 37.▲
   by ronef 2y ago

   There's a bunch of tutorials out there now, but what's the main case you're trying to solve for? Just an easy dev environment? There's an ecosystem out there that ease up the entry for Nix and also nix.dev does a great
8. 38.▲
   by ronef 2y ago

   As a Nix foundation person - If anyone gets a 100 second pitch for Nix, dinners on me and I'm using it in the Nix marketing efforts :D Agreed on the packaging experience for nix. We've been talking about that for a while also on t
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   by ronef 2y ago

   I love this. I believe I might have even interfaced with your team around that time. I was leading Facebook's (now Meta) Developer Products team and we were building against super similar areas internally. We ran back then a similar pr
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    by ronef 2y ago

    While I personally don't love developing at all times within a container. When I need to, I've found the flow of setting up with Nix and then containerizing to be the most ideal today. Is there something new recently that folks ar
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    by ronef 2y ago

    We were building something very similar to this in collaboration with the VSCode teams a while back at Meta. The goal was to get development on demand via hooking into some beefy linux server farm shile having VSCode stay as the local exper
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    by ronef 3y ago

    Ron from flox.dev here, the note brought a lot of smiles across the team. We've been working on this for a while now and would love to hear if there is anything we can prioritize or do to keep making it better.
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    by ronef 3y ago

    Thanks for asking! This is definitely a deeper lets get beers convo when you're in the bay! But - Have you ever seen the Microservices video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ I was leading the developer prod
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    by ronef 3y ago

    Appreciate the call out. Regarding pricing, bringing forward what you saw today for free and open source, was a major part of why I started Flox, with much more to come into it. What we released today will be free forever (both the open so
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    by ronef 3y ago

    we will always allow the CLI to stand alone for a local developer or CI runner. the service side of Flox is for those who want a faster performance, easy sharing, or eventually enterprise control. so while the CLI can use the closed service
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    Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix(github.com)

    382 points by ronef 3y ago|192 comments
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    by ronef 3y ago

    Strong agree, I've been talking about it as "fearless development"
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    by ronef 3y ago

    What's the top 2 examples you'd share if you had a persons attention for 60 seconds?
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    by ronef 3y ago

    The community is working hard on that topic, while also trying to prioritize what's the most critical aspects for folks. Anything that sticks out the most for you? The other bit is documentation
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    by ronef 3y ago

    Anything specific you would mention if you had 30 seconds? (meaningful examples we can share on that point)
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    by ronef 3y ago

    I'm might steal this and have this open up NixCon ;)
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    What's your go to Nix/NixOS pitch?(discourse.nixos.org)

    46 points by ronef 3y ago|93 comments
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    by ronef 3y ago

    We have split this up into short and long term. Right now it's just to resolve it and then looking further into a more scalable/long term option. We haven't started an external fundraising campaign yet as I hope to make progr
24. 54.▲
    by ronef 3y ago

    They got acquired a bit of time ago and are now making some changes in the larger entity.
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    by ronef 3y ago

    We will be holding the community call on Wednesday June 7th at 5pm (GMT+2) Planned Agenda * Brief budget and timeline review * Review/discuss all potential options * Brainstorm/Q&A Info to join is in the original discourse pos
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    by ronef 4y ago

    Just announced the bay area meetup -> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nixos-20th-bay-area-meet-ticket... Hope to see you all soon :)
27. 57.▲
    by ronef 4y ago

    +1 we should have more info tomorrow :)
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    by ronef 4y ago

    Excited to see this being in progress. Have you checked out the docs effort spun up with the Nix Documentation team?
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    by ronef 4y ago

    This is great! Does it include all talks? I just noticed that it might be missing https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/nix_and_nixos_runix/ .
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    by ronef 4y ago

    oh my. +1 for calling this out <3 I can link the github directly if it's helpful or send you info. I do apologize for this.