Tristan Ross
thecomputerguy.bsky.social
Tristan Ross
@thecomputerguy.bsky.social
I like computers and cats.

ちょっと日本語上手。にゃー
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The retrospective for Nix Vegas 2025 is live. The photos & talks are also available on our Immich instance.

nix.vegas/blog/2025-re...

Photos: relive.nix.vegas/share/4X5iSI...
Talks: relive.nix.vegas/share/qRwLI0...
Nix Vegas - The road to rebuilding the world
Looking back at DEF CON's first Nix Community
nix.vegas
August 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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⚠️ Schedule and speaker bios for #NixVegas at #DEFCON are up on our site and Hacker Tracker!

nix.vegas/schedule
nix.vegas/speakers

While you're at it, check out our artwork by Kenz Tobias and grab some stickers while you're watching talks:

nix.vegas/blog/artwork
August 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We are glad to announce a software sponsor, @flox.dev. Flox is a platform that lets developers and operators focus on building quickly with reproducible environments that span the enterprise SDLC

Visit Flox's website at flox.dev.

nix.vegas#sponsors

#Nix #NixOS #DEFCON #NixVegas
Flox | Your dev environment, everywhere
Manage and share development environments with all the frameworks and libraries you need, then publish artifacts anywhere. Harness the power of Nix.
flox.dev
June 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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📢 Major #NixVegas speaker announcement: @flox.dev has generously offered to sponsor a limited number of DEF CON Human badges for accepted speakers giving talks of 30 minutes or more. CFP will continue until July 5th.

Submit your talks here: sessionize.com/NixVegas

#Nix #NixOS #NixVegas #DEFCON
Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 33: Call for Speakers
With Nix, you don't even have to imagine that you can build the digital commons from scratch. One change to the bootstrap, and you'll rebuild the worl...
sessionize.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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We are glad to announce a hardware sponsor, Next Computing. They are providing hardware to assist us with the demo we will be showing off at Nix Vegas.

Visit Next Computing's website at nextcomputing.com.

nix.vegas#sponsors

#Nix #NixOS #DEFCON #NixVegas
June 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We are glad to announce a hardware sponsor, Ampere Computing. They are providing hardware to assist us with the demo we will be showing off at Nix Vegas during DEF CON 33.

Visit Ampere Computing's website at amperecomputing.com.

nix.vegas#sponsors

#Nix #NixOS #DEFCON #NixVegas
Ampere Cloud Computing Solutions for Efficient and Scalable Performance
Discover how Ampere's unique design delivers unmatched efficiency, meeting the growing demand for cloud computing while consuming minimal resources.
amperecomputing.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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We are glad to announce a hardware sponsor, @system76.bsky.social‬. They are providing hardware to assist us with the demo we will be showing off at Nix Vegas during DEF CON 33.

Visit System76's website at system76.com.

nix.vegas#sponsors

#Nix #NixOS #DEFCON #NixVegas
system76
system76.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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We are glad to announce a hardware sponsor, Protectli. They will be providing us with hardware to run our mesh network setup at Nix Vegas at DEF CON 33.

Visit Protectli's website at protectli.com.

nix.vegas#sponsors

#Nix #NixOS #DEFCON #NixVegas
June 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Love Nix & DEF CON? Want to share something interesting? Our CFP is open today and ends on July 5th. Be sure to register on Sessionize.

sessionize.com/NixVegas

#Nix #NixOS #DEFCON #NixVegas
June 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We just launched a blog on the Nix Vegas website. We are sharing our experience in mesh networking with NixOS, which we will be using this year.

nix.vegas/blog/dc32-ni...
Nix Vegas - Adventures in NixOS Mesh Networking at DEF CON
A DEF CON Community for contributors and users of Nix and NixOS.
nix.vegas
June 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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nix-repl> "Hello world"
May 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I've got the DeepComputing RISC-V laptop on order now. 8 Sifive P550 cores sounds exciting.
May 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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North County NUG #2
🗓 April 20, 2025 | ⏰ 18:00–20:00
📍 Windmill Food Hall, Carlsbad, CA
The North County Nix User Group is back! hether you're deep into NixOS or just curious about declarative development, you're warmly invited.

northcounty.socal-nug.com/events/2025-...
April 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Recently, I was on Brodie Robertson's podcast, Tech Over Tea. I have fun talking about Nix and NixOS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdZv...
#268 Long Awaited NixOS Episode | Tristan Ross
YouTube video by Tech Over Tea
www.youtube.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hey @x86.lol, I know you've worked on github.com/NixOS/nixpkg.... When do you think you could get back to working on it? Are you okay if I push to your PR? I need this working soon heh.
Linux Kernel Toolchain Selection Fixes by blitz · Pull Request #390631 · NixOS/nixpkgs
This is another approach to hopefully finally defeat the compiler/toolchain selection bugs in our Linux kernel derivations. See #389485 for a previous approach at fixing this. I added basic tests t...
github.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A few SELinux on NixOS updates:

- Minimized 2nd boot/activation times in module
- New VM test
- Fixed up some of the python userspace tools
April 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Let's make NixOS 25.05 another great release.
We’re looking for the NixOS 25.05 Release Manager to collaborate closely with @NotAShelf, @getchoo, and the team.

This role requires about 4 hours per week, and it’s a great opportunity to shape the future of NixOS.

Interested? Learn more here: discourse.nixos.org/t/25-05-call...
March 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We've got another Nix user who's a Subatomo.
March 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Got back last night from Planet Nix and SCALE 22x. It was awesome to see System76 and Ampere Computing. They were gracious enough to provide us with a Thelio Astra to display at Planet Nix and the NixOS booth at SCALE.
March 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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We are pleased to introduce Tristan Ross (@thecomputerguy.bsky.social), a member of the LLVM team and a Nix maintainer, who will be discussing 'The Nix PR Pipeline'
February 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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can't believe i haven't posted this yet
November 2, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Where are the #nixos Stan's at....
January 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I've got 3 possible talks for Planet Nix.
December 5, 2024 at 4:59 PM
TIL padoru padoru is just jingle bells in Japanese
December 4, 2024 at 4:25 AM