If you want to try #txtnix, now is the time with the new installation guide https://github.com/mdom/txtnix#installation

If you want to try #txtnix, now is the time with the new installation guide https://github.com/mdom/txtnix#installation

/me wonders in which world autocorrecting spelling errors during tab-completion is sane? https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible

/me wonders in which world autocorrecting spelling errors during tab-completion is sane? https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible

Does anybody have an opinion about https://github.com/DracoBlue/twtxt-registry/issues/4?

Does anybody have an opinion about https://github.com/DracoBlue/twtxt-registry/issues/4?

@kdave@kdave.github.io Not that i endorse anything like that, but one could always just .

@kdave@kdave.github.io Not that i endorse anything like that, but one could always just .

@kdave@kdave.github.io There’s an almost dependency-free version at https://mdom.github.io/txtnix.

@kdave@kdave.github.io There’s an almost dependency-free version at https://mdom.github.io/txtnix.

@kas@enotty.dk Yeah, it’s way easier to upload files to github than to my hoster. But i’m giving up, the official mdom is now under https://mdom.github.io/twtxt.txt.

@kas@enotty.dk Yeah, it’s way easier to upload files to github than to my hoster. But i’m giving up, the official mdom is now under https://mdom.github.io/twtxt.txt.

Can’t decide if https://github.com/binfalse/jabber-vs-twitter is crazy or genius. Probably both.

Can’t decide if https://github.com/binfalse/jabber-vs-twitter is crazy or genius. Probably both.

New version of txtnix. I would be happy if anybody could test the no-dependency script at http://mdom.github.io/txtnix.

New version of txtnix. I would be happy if anybody could test the no-dependency script at http://mdom.github.io/txtnix.

You can download txtwat as self contained perl script that should run on all recent versions of perl http://mdom.github.io/txtwat.

You can download txtwat as self contained perl script that should run on all recent versions of perl http://mdom.github.io/txtwat.

Just renamed twtxtpl to txtwat https://github.com/mdom/txtwat.

Just renamed twtxtpl to txtwat https://github.com/mdom/txtwat.

https://github.com/mdom/twtxtpl/commit/cc8b checks if the twtfile was fetched by following a 301 and rewrites the url in your configuration file

https://github.com/mdom/twtxtpl/commit/cc8b checks if the twtfile was fetched by following a 301 and rewrites the url in your configuration file

@kas@enotty.dk That probably my client at https://github.com/mdom/twtxtpl. It sends a proper user agent string now.

@kas@enotty.dk That probably my client at https://github.com/mdom/twtxtpl. It sends a proper user agent string now.

I’m developing my own implementation of a twtxt client with perl at https://github.com/mdom/twtxtpl

I’m developing my own implementation of a twtxt client with perl at https://github.com/mdom/twtxtpl

How should metadata about a twtxt feed be stored? Weigh in @ https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/issues/48

Guess I’m too late: https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt

@edsu@edsu.github.io I’d prefer to use the timestamp instead. People might delete messages or rearange them.

/me waves to @escowles https://escowles.github.io/tw.txt

oops I forgot the url in my last message https://gist.github.com/edsu/855230f4754d6d11844d

maybe -q will do the trick? http://edsu.github.io/twtxt/config.txt

@ruebot did you add a post_tweet_hook like this? http://edsu.github.io/twtxt/config.txt

Stdenv updates branch merged into master
The stdenv-updates branch has\
 been merged into the master branch of Nixpkgs. The main
change are that brings is that Nixpkgs/NixOS are now based on
GCC 4.8 and Glibc 2.18, in addition to many smaller updates. ⌘ Read more

NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in
order to simplify development. The sources now live in the nixos\
 subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository on GitHub. See the
announcement
for more information. ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
Today Sander van\
 der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A\
 Reference Architecture for Distributed Software\
 Deployment! It describes (among other things) [Disnix](https://github.com/s … ⌘ Read more

Hydra talk at Inria
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk on Hydra at Inria (which has
its own Hydra instance for building Inria software) entitled “Hydra:\
 continuous integration for demanding people”. ⌘ Read more

Moving to GitHub
The NixOS project is (slowly) migrating from Subversion to Git!
The master repositories will be hosted in the NixOS organization on GitHub. For the moment, just a
few subprojects have been migrated, such as Hydra and Charon. Thanks to
Tianyi Cui for donating the NixOS GitHub organization. ⌘ Read more

ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
The paper “Automating System\
 Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines” (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the 21st IEEE International\
 Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
en … ⌘ Read more

Hydra
Nix
and NixOS
releases are now built in Hydra, the new Nix-based
continuous build system. Hydra replaces our old Nix-based\
 build farm, which will be phased out soon. There are
several advantages over the old build farm: the build tasks for
a project are scheduled and published separat … ⌘ Read more

DisNix paper accepted at HotSWUp
The paper “Atomic Upgrading of Distributed Systems” (by Sander
van der Burg, Eelco Dolstra and Merijn de Jonge) has been
accepted for presentation at the First ACM Workshop on Hot\
Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp). A draft\
of the paper is available. It describes Sander’s master’s
thesis research on DisNix, an extension … ⌘ Read more

LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal\
Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\
Functional DSLs” at 8th\
Workshop on Language\
Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). It’s about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h … ⌘ Read more

HotOS paper on NixOS
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper Purely\
Functional System\
Configuration Management at the 11th Workshop on\
Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI). It gives an
overview of the ideas behind NixOS. The
slides
are also available. ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis defended
Eelco Dolstra
defended his PhD\
 thesis on the purely functional deployment model. ⌘ Read more