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chmod 105: Just in the Nix of time with Pol Dellaiera

chmod 105: Just in the Nix of time with Pol Dellaiera

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Embark in an unconventional open source journey with Pol Dellaiera in episode 5 of the chmodcast. It all starts with saving every euro to buy his first computer as a kid… Then it goes to Drupal, Symfony, and now Nix, where Pol’s contributions as a maintainer with commits rights make the lives of PHP developers easier than ever. Package manager, operating system and even functional language: Nix does it all. Let’s dive in!

  • 00:20 — Episode introduction
  • 01:45 — SymfonyCon Brussels
  • 03:00 — Introducing Pol Dellaiera
  • 05:03 — A love for computers that leads to a career in IT
  • 08:31 — Open source journey, from Drupal 5 to Symfony to Nix
  • 18:31 — Installing NixOS and saving configuration files
  • 21:45 — Maintaining and adding packages to Nix
  • 24:20 — Nix language
  • 26:36 — Example of a contribution to Nix
  • 30:33 — How many people work on Nix?
  • 32:43 — How to use and contribute to Nix?
  • 34:40 — What’s in the future for Nix? (Flakes!)
  • 37:33 — Silly questions time!
  • 41:10 — Next episode teaser

Thank you to Pol for taking us on his journey, but it doesn’t end there! He just published his master’s thesis about “Reproducibility in Software Engineering”, 20+ years after completing his bachelor’s degree! Check out the links below to learn more about Pol’s ongoing projects and stay in the loop with his work.

  • Mastodon
  • GitHub
  • Blog
  • Master’s thesis “Reproducibility in Software Engineering”
  • Nix & NixOS

Do you have an open-source story of your own that you want to share? Join us for an episode of Change Mode, apply now to be a guest.

Shoutout to our incredible podcast host, Marine Gandy, our resident Drupal expert and DevRel Engineer at Platform.sh. There’ll be plenty more from Marine coming soon, stay tuned!

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