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Nix is used by developers and sysadmins to manage software installations, build software from source, and create reproducible development environments.

Accessing the Software Heritage Archive via the InterPlanetary FileSystem

Accessing the Software Heritage Archive via the InterPlanetary FileSystem

Building a bridge to disseminate the Software Heritage archive over IPFS. Software Heritage is a non-profit initiative with a mission to preserve open source software code. It houses the largest public archive of software source code in the world. IPFS, developed by Protocol Labs, provides a decentralized, peer-to-peer protocol designed

How Obsidian Systems Builds Products

How Obsidian Systems Builds Products

For almost a decade, we’ve shaped our unique modus operandi to deliver great products to our customers with shorter timelines and smaller budgets, and we guarantee to lead an idea from plan to prototype in only ten weeks. This post is an overview of our workflow. How it started

CI / BC in Nix

CI / BC in Nix

What roles do continuous integration and binary caches play in software development? How does Nix facilitate their implementation? What are continuous integration and binary caching? Continuous integration (CI) is the automation of testing, debugging, and merging when a change is upstreamed to a development team's codebase. It prioritizes

Kicking off "Peer-to-Peer Access to Our Software Heritage" with IPFS

Kicking off "Peer-to-Peer Access to Our Software Heritage" with IPFS

Recently, Software Heritage and Obsidian Systems were awarded an NLNet Foundation grant to bridge IPFS and the Software Heritage archive. Software Heritage also announced the beginning of this project on their blog. We were inspired to undertake this work after our previous work interfacing Nix and IPFS. The bridge between

Setting up WeeChat and Glowing Bear on NixOS

Setting up WeeChat and Glowing Bear on NixOS

So much conversation in the Haskell and Nix ecosystems happens on IRC. One of the disadvantages of IRC is that you can't log in ("identify") as the same user on multiple machines. This is especially annoying when switching between mobile and desktop. Some proprietary services, like

Nix × IPFS — Milestone 1

Nix × IPFS — Milestone 1

This was originally posted on the IPFS Blog. It was also discussed on Hacker News. Obsidian Systems is adding support for IPFS to Nix so that build products can be persisted to and fetched from IPFS. This adds resiliency and makes it easier for Nix users to reproduce and distribute