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Farid Zakaria’s Blog

Farid Zakaria on Nix, build systems, linkers and the unglamorous plumbing that makes software reproducible.

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Rewind VM: a flaky build you only catch once
October 4th, 2026•fzakaria.com
Hiding my AI slop from my Nix friends
September 28th, 2026•fzakaria.com
Every package is already installed
September 25th, 2026•fzakaria.com
A build graph that rolls dice
September 21st, 2026•fzakaria.com
Visualizing Nix closures
September 16th, 2026•fzakaria.com
Orange Site Vanity
September 14th, 2026•fzakaria.com
A Nix store is three functions
September 12th, 2026•fzakaria.com
Review a pull request by booting it
September 9th, 2026•fzakaria.com
Any Nix package, live in your browser
September 5th, 2026•fzakaria.com
Keeping one version of everything
September 2nd, 2026•fzakaria.com
The holy grail of nixpkgs: version ranges
September 1st, 2026•fzakaria.com
How safe is follows?
August 31st, 2026•fzakaria.com
One flake to rule them all
August 29th, 2026•fzakaria.com
Stamping build info in constant memory
August 26th, 2026•fzakaria.com
Actually Queryable Executables
August 25th, 2026•fzakaria.com
nixpkgs-multiverse: the fewest nixpkgs
August 17th, 2026•fzakaria.com
DEFCON34 wrap-up
August 16th, 2026•fzakaria.com
nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode
August 14th, 2026•fzakaria.com
nixpkgs-multiverse is audacitymaxxing
August 11th, 2026•fzakaria.com
nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed
August 9th, 2026•fzakaria.com