Nick Zadrozny
@nz.omc.io
Founder/engineer; I build infrastructure for search. When I'm not writing Rust or Nix, I'm bloviating on business. Austin, TX.
Hello world! I'm putting together a series of talks and team trainings on Nix and NixOS. (Two is a series, right?)
There's a lot to narrow down. So I would love to know: if you're Nix-curious, what questions do you have, or frustrations have you experienced?
There's a lot to narrow down. So I would love to know: if you're Nix-curious, what questions do you have, or frustrations have you experienced?
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Hello world! I'm putting together a series of talks and team trainings on Nix and NixOS. (Two is a series, right?)
There's a lot to narrow down. So I would love to know: if you're Nix-curious, what questions do you have, or frustrations have you experienced?
There's a lot to narrow down. So I would love to know: if you're Nix-curious, what questions do you have, or frustrations have you experienced?
Clever hidden design element for the new City of Austin logo: a cheeky little “y” that represents “y tho”
September 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Clever hidden design element for the new City of Austin logo: a cheeky little “y” that represents “y tho”
Bring back high quality local tech meetups!
AustinSystems.org first meeting was a big success! Had some great talks, 25+ people attended, free pizza and a great view.
August 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Bring back high quality local tech meetups!
We have some very pragmatic search content going out on the @bonsai.io blog and I am chuffed. More on the way.
In Part 1, @max.io shared a guide to building autocomplete in Elasticsearch & OpenSearch.
In Part 2, he shows you how to scale it to 6M docs and runs side-by-side load tests with a large hybrid search index.
Dive in 👉 bonsai.io/blog/how-to-...
#autocomplete #elasticsearch #opensearch
In Part 2, he shows you how to scale it to 6M docs and runs side-by-side load tests with a large hybrid search index.
Dive in 👉 bonsai.io/blog/how-to-...
#autocomplete #elasticsearch #opensearch
bonsai.io
July 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
We have some very pragmatic search content going out on the @bonsai.io blog and I am chuffed. More on the way.
For so many software product builders, learning the fundamentals of search relevancy is like unlocking a super power. Come join Doug and me and find out for yourself!
If you use Elasticsearch and friends, my new course "Relevant Search Masterclass" has early bird pricing THIS WEEK
maven.com/softwaredoug...
maven.com/softwaredoug...
'Relevant Search' masterclass by Doug Turnbull and Nick Zadrozny on Maven
Learn to build search applications that deliver relevant results
Level up your search quality with advanced techniques
maven.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
For so many software product builders, learning the fundamentals of search relevancy is like unlocking a super power. Come join Doug and me and find out for yourself!
Happy door to door roofing sales day to all my Austinites who celebrate.
May 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy door to door roofing sales day to all my Austinites who celebrate.
The true nuggets of wisdom in search relevancy are surprisingly hard to find.
May 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The true nuggets of wisdom in search relevancy are surprisingly hard to find.
Anyway how's your day going.
April 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Anyway how's your day going.
Reposted by Nick Zadrozny
Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said.
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
April 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said.
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
And they’re all still billionaires. Anyway this is the stick. Next comes the carrot: targeted relief in exchange for greater fealty.
The world's 500 richest people saw their combined wealth fall by a combined $208 billion, the most since Covid, as tariffs sent markets into a tailspin
Billionaires Lose Combined $208 Billion in One Day From Trump Tariffs
The world’s 500 richest people saw their combined wealth plunge by $208 billion Thursday as broad tariffs announced by President Donald Trump sent global markets into a tailspin.
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
And they’re all still billionaires. Anyway this is the stick. Next comes the carrot: targeted relief in exchange for greater fealty.
I Iike Rust but I also write a lot of Ruby. So I ported Result and Option to Ruby and integrated Option into ActiveRecord. Sounds like an April Fool’s joke. But no, just the usual unhinged behavior over here.
April 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I Iike Rust but I also write a lot of Ruby. So I ported Result and Option to Ruby and integrated Option into ActiveRecord. Sounds like an April Fool’s joke. But no, just the usual unhinged behavior over here.
hunter2
just a quick reminder that you can encrypt your bluesky posts by using the #encrypted hashtag #opsec #encrypted
March 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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It seems to prevent Republicans from illegally dismantling government, @schumer.senate.gov will courageously vote to let them go ahead and make it legal? Cool cool cool
A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, state, and country.
Musk has said he wants a shutdown, and reporting has shown he is already making plans to use the shutdown to expedite his destruction of key government programs and services.
Musk has said he wants a shutdown, and reporting has shown he is already making plans to use the shutdown to expedite his destruction of key government programs and services.
March 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It seems to prevent Republicans from illegally dismantling government, @schumer.senate.gov will courageously vote to let them go ahead and make it legal? Cool cool cool
Who can I contract with to make Rails support sops for its encrypted secrets? I want nicer diffs pls 🥲 github.com/getsops/sops
GitHub - getsops/sops: Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets. Contribute to getsops/sops development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Who can I contract with to make Rails support sops for its encrypted secrets? I want nicer diffs pls 🥲 github.com/getsops/sops
The engineers will do a great job rearchitecting your product not to need what they’re supposed to be helping to sell 🤫
If you put me in a room with the engineers that built your product I will be 10x more engaged and interested than I am on a zoom call with some sales reps.
February 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The engineers will do a great job rearchitecting your product not to need what they’re supposed to be helping to sell 🤫
Reposted by Nick Zadrozny
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
Big AI: you can train and use generative AI to answer all your domain specific questions and run your entire business and fire all your employees!
Me: "what is a friendly but professional salutation for someone who signs their email like this:"
Me: "what is a friendly but professional salutation for someone who signs their email like this:"
January 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Big AI: you can train and use generative AI to answer all your domain specific questions and run your entire business and fire all your employees!
Me: "what is a friendly but professional salutation for someone who signs their email like this:"
Me: "what is a friendly but professional salutation for someone who signs their email like this:"
Alright I think it's time for me to start blogging about my team's #Nix journey. Three interesting milestones: All-In-Rewrite (Spring '24), Tinkering In Dev (Fall '23), and First Demo From @grahamc.com (what was that—2016?!)
January 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Alright I think it's time for me to start blogging about my team's #Nix journey. Three interesting milestones: All-In-Rewrite (Spring '24), Tinkering In Dev (Fall '23), and First Demo From @grahamc.com (what was that—2016?!)
Had one of those "surely I'm doing it wrong" afternoons writing some #Rust. The kind of code that has me calling match on a &str. Alas, quick prototypes do not allow pausing for perfection. Onward!
January 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Had one of those "surely I'm doing it wrong" afternoons writing some #Rust. The kind of code that has me calling match on a &str. Alas, quick prototypes do not allow pausing for perfection. Onward!
So I spent some time this holiday break getting a development environment set up in Windows, and it was... surprisingly reasonable?! Interesting that #Rust played a notable part in that for me...
January 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
So I spent some time this holiday break getting a development environment set up in Windows, and it was... surprisingly reasonable?! Interesting that #Rust played a notable part in that for me...
The internet has some real "Let them eat cake" energy lately and I am here for it.
December 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM
The internet has some real "Let them eat cake" energy lately and I am here for it.
Elasticsearch did a convenient thing with storing the document _source, but for so many use-cases, it's redundant. Trying to think about reasons why—for, you know, search—it should ever be used, and that list is coming up a lot shorter than reasons not to store it… 🤔
December 3, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Elasticsearch did a convenient thing with storing the document _source, but for so many use-cases, it's redundant. Trying to think about reasons why—for, you know, search—it should ever be used, and that list is coming up a lot shorter than reasons not to store it… 🤔
So if Engineering is the bones of search, and if Information Retrieval / Data Science / ML is the mind… then Product is the heart and flesh, the will and motivating force behind it all.
December 3, 2024 at 2:33 PM
So if Engineering is the bones of search, and if Information Retrieval / Data Science / ML is the mind… then Product is the heart and flesh, the will and motivating force behind it all.
Thought I would try my hand at the whole starter pack thing — here's a group of the excellent and interesting search engineers from the Relevant Slack group! go.bsky.app/9pqVhAw
Relevant Devs
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
December 2, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Thought I would try my hand at the whole starter pack thing — here's a group of the excellent and interesting search engineers from the Relevant Slack group! go.bsky.app/9pqVhAw