Gabriel Volpe

Gabriel Volpe

@gvolpe.com

Software Engineer. Author of Practical FP in Scala & Functional Event-Driven Architecture. #NixOS #NeoVim #Scala #Haskell #UnisonLang

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@gclaramunt.bsky.social

Open to work! Senior/Staff backend engineer, FP across languages: Scala, Rust, TypeScript. Distributed systems, cloud (gcp, aws, ...). Heavy user of agentic coding, with 20+ yrs of writing code by hand to know when the agent is wrong. Remote contractor, US hours. DMs open, RT for reach.

Loving my new animated #NixOS lockscreen 😍

ghuntley.com/nix/

ghuntley.comthe world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlayThere are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember whe...

This is awesome! #NixOS #UnisonLang #UnisonCloud github.com/giodamelio/u...

github.comGitHub - giodamelio/unison-cloud-in-a-bottle: Run a demo of the newly open source Unison Cloud in a VM with a single `nix run`Run a demo of the newly open source Unison Cloud in a VM with a single `nix run` - giodamelio/unison-cloud-in-a-bottle

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@unison-lang.org

Unison Cloud, our distributed computing platform, is now open source: www.unison-lang.org/blog/unison-... ✅ Service deploys in seconds. ✅ Fast, typed, inter-service communication ✅ High level, multi-node structured concurrency programming model ✅ Typed storage ...and more

unison-lang.orgUnison Cloud is now open source · Unison programming languageUnison Cloud is open source, MIT licensed.

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Eric Torreborre

@etorreborre.blog

Unison 1.5.0 is out, featuring GADTs and indexed abilities. Also some new builtins for variadic FFI, POSIX signal subscriptions, and error message improvements. Release notes: github.com/unisonweb/un... GADT docs: unison-lang.org/docs/fundame... (copied from the similar announcement on X)

github.comRelease release/1.5.0 · unisonweb/unisonWhat's Changed GADTs: type Foo a b where ... by @runarorama in #6257 GADT-indexed abilities: index refinement for handlers by @runarorama in #6258 Improve error message for pattern matching in fun...

Slides of my lighting talk at #nixcon today #NixOS gvolpe.com/slides/dots....

gvolpe.comDots - NixCon 2026Dots: The Home-Manager module you didn't know you needed

Got inspired at #nixcon and finally got the time to replace my dreadful neovim-flake (now archived) on the way back home with this simpler #neovim wrapper. github.com/gvolpe/mnw-f...

github.comGitHub - gvolpe/mnw-flake: Neovim flakeNeovim flake. Contribute to gvolpe/mnw-flake development by creating an account on GitHub.

Talking about #nixcon, it was cool to meet #vimjoyer in person where I learned about his wip #nix course which is looking great! www.vimjoyer.com/course

vimjoyer.comThe Nix CourseA free interactive Nix adventure. Choose a quest, learn by doing, and raise your own knowledge castle.

Incredibly cool arcade machine running #NixOS. Only at #nixcon 👾

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#Nix can now build itself via #WASM support 🤯

Day 2 of #nixcon! Nix store as a database

Incredibly cool arcade machine running #NixOS. Only at #nixcon 👾

Deltanar - #NixOS in space 🛰️

Eelco Dolstra (creator of Nix)

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Couple weeks till NixCon, and of course team Tangled will be there! Join us in workshopping reproducible infra with Nix and SSH with @oppi.li on Friday 25th during hack day, and get the quick specs on Tangled in our lightning talk or the longer hands-on version in our workshop on Saturday.

This was very hard to write, but couldn't be silent any longer. gvolpe.com/blog/tax-pay...

gvolpe.comA tax-paying prisoner in PolandToday is my birthday, but I’m not in the mood to celebrate. Today marks 131 days since my legal status in Poland has basically become tax-paying prisoner, …

Next protest in Gdańsk ✊ tuzyjemy.pl/en/

tuzyjemy.plTu ŻyjemyA knowledge base and shared actions for migrants' rights in Poland.

Outrageous pasha.by/pobyt/

pasha.byI waited 855 Days for a temporary residence permit in GdanskWaiting for permit in Gdansk...

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NixOS Foundation

NixOS is strong. Nearly 2B requests and almost 1 petabyte of bandwidth every week - the scale behind cache.nixos.org and releases.nixos.org. @AWSOpen is extending its support for the 4th year! discourse.nixos.org/t/aws-nixos-... Big ♥️ to AWS and the Nix Infra team. ❄️

discourse.nixos.orgAWS & NixOS S3 Partnership Continues - Year 4!Happy Monday, and hopefully a good 4 weeks before NixCon week to everyone! Some very good news for us today. ❄ AWS has committed the next chapter of its support for the NixOS Foundation &…

COVID times #Haskell #selfie five years ago (stickers of #NeoVim and #NixOS on my old laptop 🥲, got none on my current one)

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Run your own CI, it's worth it. blog.tangled.org/selfhost-ci/

blog.tangled.orgRun your own CIIt is worth it

This is really wanting me to finally jump ships over to @tangled.org 😏

fzakaria.com/2026/08/09/n...

fzakaria.comnixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existedEnter the Nixpkgs multiverse. All the versions that ever existed, all in one place.

New blog post! gvolpe.com/blog/systemd... #NixOS #systemd

gvolpe.comBuild-time systemd scheduleThe System and Service Manager systemd provides the building blocks for Linux systems, and it’s the default in NixOS — though, there are a few …

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this is awesome

github.comTracking: End‐to‐end NixOS boot security · Issue #549372 · NixOS/nixpkgs@ElvishJerricco and I are working on bringing support for end‐to‐end trusted boot to upstream NixOS, thanks to NLnet funding and building on experience using and maintaining Lanzaboote, our systemd...

intheweights.com/p/gabriel-vo... Gemini has it wrong. Claude a bit outdated. The other models are pretty accurate. Cool website 👌

#Immich upgraded to v3.1.0 🚀

Github Actions is at it again 😵 Spoiler Alert: the "Fix with Copilot" button doesn't really fix anything 🤌

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New blogpost! #NixOS gvolpe.com/blog/dots-su...

gvolpe.comQoS: Dots & SUNixThis blogpost would have been too short if I only talked about a single topic, so I decided to combine both topics into a single post, as both qualify as actual …

#NixOS #Niri #Wayland github.com/gvolpe/sunix

github.comGitHub - gvolpe/sunix: Software Updates for NixSoftware Updates for Nix. Contribute to gvolpe/sunix development by creating an account on GitHub.

Next version will ship with options to export the report as markdown, among other formats. Here's how I use these reports on my #NixOS config: github.com/gvolpe/nix-c...

github.comflakes: update all inputs on Aug 03, 2026 by gvolpe · Pull Request #334 · gvolpe/nix-configFlakes update ❄️ The following reports have been produced by SUNix. SUNix Report: Home Manager #niri-hdmi 🚀 Summary: 94 added, 94 removed, 264 upgraded, 4 downgraded, 85 changed, 5 other Paths: 24...

"Precision and Reproducibility" at 14:43. For a moment I thought I was watching a #NixOS video 🤣 Jokes aside, this is an incredibly informative video about all different forms of coffee fermentation for those interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq34...

youtube.comI Went To Guatemala To Explain Why All Coffee Is FermentedYouTube video by James Hoffmann

New computer, same #NixOS

Best #rustlang blogpost I've seen in a while by Sebastian Różyczka, well done! someblog.dev/en/blog/nobo... There's also a first part comparing #scala with Rust.

someblog.devNobody's coming to clean up after youRust has no garbage collector — so who frees the memory? Part 2 of a Scala-to-Rust series: ownership, move semantics, and the moment borrowing clicked.

New short blogpost: gvolpe.com/blog/immich-... #nixos #immich #ntfy

gvolpe.comImmich Memories NotificationsOne of the most beloved features Immich offers (also Google Photos) is memories. It temporarily transports us back in time to cherish our old precious photos …

Had no idea this was dubbed an AI plan, but I'm not surprised either. Bye bye Google, you won't be missed 👋

@unison-lang.org may be getting "type class" support this year! 🤯 github.com/unisonweb/un...

github.comImplicit parameters for Unison — RFC + working prototype by runarorama · Pull Request #6229 · unisonweb/unisonImplicit parameters for Unison — RFC + partial prototype This proposes adding Scala-3-style implicit parameters (given / =>) to Unison and contains a partial prototype / proof of concept. It exi...

NeoVim's Image API implementation has been merged 🚀 github.com/neovim/neovi...

github.comfeat(ui): implement vim.ui.img api by chipsenkbeil · Pull Request #37914 · neovim/neovimImplements a synchronous API to load and display images using kitty protocol underneath. Cleaned up and simpler version of #31399. close #30889 API Implementation vim.ui.img.load(filename|opts) -&...

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Ivan Molodetskikh

Replying to @yalter.bxt.rs

After five months of (on and off) development, I'm glad to announce niri v26.04! It's packed with features like window blur (of course), mouse cursor in window screencasts, rendering optimizations, and more. Enjoy the release notes: github.com/niri-wm/niri... #niri #wayland #rust

#NixOS self-hosted servers upgrade in progress...

On that note, this looks promising: github.com/adisbladis/d...

github.comGitHub - adisbladis/deltanar: Delta based deployment tool for NixDelta based deployment tool for Nix. Contribute to adisbladis/deltanar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Got my ticket for this year's #nixcon in 🇵🇱 2026.nixcon.org

2026.nixcon.orgNixCon 2026

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@unison-lang.org

🗞️ For your weekend perusal, check out Unison community member @zetashift-01.bsky.social's latest blog post! Here, he's using Unison Cloud Daemons to write an uptime notifier! zetashift.unison-services.cloud/s/blog/posts...

zetashift.unison-services.cloudzetashift's blogI saw this repository by yorickpeterse where fish and podman were used to create an uptime notifier and thought it was a very cool, readable repository. And fish is a great shell as well, so double fun. It motivated me to try to do something similar with Unison Cloud and document parts of it.

Posting from @blackskyweb.xyz 🤯

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@isabelroses.com

with all the hype around linux. might i recommend some light reading for newcommers to linux

#Niri will have blur support in the next release! The PR has been submitted 3 days ago, and you can help testing it out. #NixOS makes this extremely easy with flakes, example: github.com/gvolpe/nix-c...

github.comniri: blur support by gvolpe · Pull Request #317 · gvolpe/nix-configPR: niri-wm/niri#3483

oddlama.org/blog/trackin...

oddlama.orgTracking NixOS option values and dependencies | oddlama's blogoddlama's personal web page and blog