Call for Content: 2021/05

[domenkozar]

Hi all,

please add Nix news item in form of:

- [Example news item title](http://example.com)

  Optional item description.

preferably as a PR against master branch (or a comment below).

Thank you <3

[cole-h]

- [terraform-provider-hydra](https://determinate.systems/posts/terraform-provider-hydra/)

  A Terraform provider for declaratively managing Hydra projects and jobsets, Determinate Systems' first open source release.

[siraben]

- [stdenv.lib has been removed from Nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/125494)

[domenkozar]

• Unbreakable Builds On Container Schedulers Without Containers
• Cross compilation tutorial
• https://blog.replit.com/nix_dynamic_version
• https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-framework

[Mic92]

- [Container assignment](https://github.com/ls1-sys-prog-course/task8-container)

  University lecture + assignment + tutorial on how to build a shell for the nix build sandbox with automated tests suite

[ghuntley]

- Gitpod [has shipped a template](https://twitter.com/gitpod/status/1412207422165241858), configured for Nix that gives you pre-built, ephemeral reproducible development environments in the cloud.

[Mic92]

- Gitpod [has shipped a template](https://twitter.com/gitpod/status/1412207422165241858), configured for Nix that gives you pre-built, ephemeral reproducible development environments in the cloud.

Looks like the tweet no longer exists.

[domenkozar]

- Gitpod [has shipped a template](https://twitter.com/gitpod/status/1412207422165241858), configured for Nix that gives you pre-built, ephemeral reproducible development environments in the cloud.

Looks like the tweet no longer exists.

It does for me?

[domenkozar]

https://christine.website/blog/paranoid-nixos-2021-07-18

https://mobile.nixos.org/news/2021-08-03-july-2021-round-up.html

https://gvolpe.com/blog/nixos-binary-cache-ci/

https://blog.thomasheartman.com/posts/bevy-getting-started-on-nixos

[pstn]

• Nix Citizen Experimental attempt (by me) of packaging a demanding and somewhat complex (in terms of wine setup) wine application by dynamically creating a wine prefix from the nix store path of a generated wrapper script.

[ajs124]

• Solving the y2038 Problem with NixOS and XFS Or how to teach your initrd to add features to a filesystem on bootup.

[Mic92]

- [microvm.nix](https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix) A Nix Flake to build NixOS and run it on one of several KVM-Hypervisors (cloud-hypervisor, qemu, firecracker, kvmtool, crosvm)