Nick Zadrozny
nz.omc.io
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.
Prod is in late "dark deployment" / early rollout stages, with a few dozen NixOS deployments supporting low hundreds of customers, ramping up to thousands by early next year.

There is a lot I *don't* know about Nix… but a few years deep in the weeds, I know a lot more than I am proud to admit 😅
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
To be clear, I'm focusing on servers or development environments; I don't have the fortitude to run Linux on the desktop!

Some more context: my team runs Nix for the dev systems of a half dozen people, working in Ruby, Rust, JS, Java, across a dozen different app, data, and API services.
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is the way
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Also: ebikes? I think we’re going to need solar panels, a battery, an inverter, and a handful of bike chargers for various different brands. And while we’re at it, landscaping equipment also uses batteries. This sounds like a very multipurpose building to me, I’m not sure ‘vehicles’ really captures…
October 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Okay I’ll bite: why do you want an OpenSearch on a raspberry pi!
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Crucial Conversations
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I mean, RUST_LOG, and clap env, but you know those 😎
September 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Aw yiss
August 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Recently dove in on a glove80 with Engram. Going from 115 to 15wpm is humbling.
July 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Yeah if Bluesky counts!
July 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Problem: searching across five different indexes.
Solution? Combine them into one!
New problem: searching across six different indexes…
June 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Maybe if we're lucky we can get a bias checker in Rust 🤞
April 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
But how do you know if a programmer is a Rust pro-ohhh yeah that tracks
April 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
😂
April 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Try your hand at @graze.social?
April 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Thanks I needed a new book series
April 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM