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#02 - NixOS Weekly

We are here to make another world - W. Edwards Deming

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A Rust rewrite of unmaintained nix-deploy. Any feedback appreciated!

Caching layer for nix-shell featuring instant startup time on subsequent runs. It supports NixOS and Linux.

An explanation of __structuredAttrs in stdenv and why enabling it would be desirable.

A small command-line tool and python library that makes bisecting nix builds much more convenient. It prevents common pitfalls in simple cases and saves a lot of time in more complicated ones.

Cachix infrastructure has been revamped to scale with recent growth in traffic.

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