Posts of the category announcement
Determinate is now directly compatible with nix-darwin
nix-darwin now enables Determinate to manage Nix, a big win for Determinate users on macOS
Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths
Speed up Nix deployments, especially on resource-constrained devices, by avoiding the evaluation tax
End of life for the free tier of the Magic Nix Cache
Some unfortunate decisions by GitHub have forced us to wind down free caching with the Magic Nix Cache by 1 February 2025
Determinate Nix now supports migrating from other caches
Determinate Nix supports loading customer-specified credentials for authenticating with additional caches.
Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes
Business-class binary caching and fine-grained access control for flakes enable organizations to seamlessly scale Nix adoption across teams and projects
Announcing Determinate Nix
Determinate Nix is a Nix distribution for teams
Discontinuing support for macOS Monterey
Determinate software will no longer support macOS Monterey (version 12), following Apple's dropped support.
Fully automated Nix installation for macOS on AWS EC2
Skip the unskippable: eliminate the macOS Full Disk Access approval on AWS EC2 with Determinate.
Solving corporate TLS certificates for Nix on macOS
Determinate solves a key problem with TLS/SSL certificates on macOS.
Prepare Nix for macOS Sequoia
Nix fully supports the upcoming macOS Sequoia, but you'll have to repair the build users first.
Discontinuing support for i686-linux in the Determinate Nix Installer
Usage patterns suggest unambiguously that the Determinate Nix Installer no longer needs to support this system type.
Introducing FlakeHub Cache
Fast, secure, configurable. A bold new take on Nix caching.
KVM on GitHub Actions
NixOS tests, Firecracker VMs, and more, now available to Nix users on GitHub Actions with one line of code.
A graphical installer for Nix
An even easier way to install Nix on macOS—and trustworthy and ripe for integration to boot.
Nix Survival Mode: sheltering Nix from macOS upgrades
For years, macOS upgrades have broken Nix. We've updated the Determinate Nix Installer to ensure that this no longer happens, eliminating yet another annoyance for macOS users.
FlakeHub updates: lightning-fast mirroring and webhook integrations
Checking in on FlakeHub one month after launch
fh: the CLI for FlakeHub
Make more productive use of the growing FlakeHub platform
Flake schemas: making flake outputs extensible
Flake schemas enable you to teach Nix about new flake output types.
Introducing FlakeHub
A new home for your Nix flakes. Semantic versioning, flake exploration, automated publishing using GitHub Actions, and more.
Introducing the Magic Nix Cache
Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible.
Introducing the Nix Flake Checker
A powerful new way to keep your Nix flakes in line with best practices.
Nuenv: an experimental Nushell environment for Nix
How and why I replaced Nix's Bash-based standard environment with a much more powerful and expressive build apparatus.
Introducing the Determinate Nix Installer
A fresh new alternative to the official Nix installation scripts.
Introducing Zero To Nix
Introducing a brand new, beginner-friendly learning resource for Nix and the Nix ecosystem.
Introducing Riff
Riff is a tool that automatically provides external dependencies for Rust projects.
Announcing: Terraform Provider Hydra
I'm excited to announce Determinate Systems' first open source release: a Terraform provider for managing Hydra projects and jobsets.