NixOS
- 3rd September 2026
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Six Days Inside a GPU That Would Not Wake Up
An RTX 5070 Laptop that no NVIDIA driver could initialise, and what it took to prove the bug was in firmware rather than in code anyone can read.
- 21st August 2026
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The Watchdog That Watched a Disk Die Anyway
A disk-space guard observed the exact failure condition it was built to catch, twice, and the disk hit zero nine minutes later. Two bugs, two fixes, three hours apart.
- 1st August 2026
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One Flake, Seven Hosts, and the Backup That Died Without Telling Anyone
Two hosts each carried their own copy of the same backup config, and the same structural mistake in both of them let one backup silently stop running for two days.
- 30th July 2026
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A Nix-Managed GPU VM Is Genuinely Great, and Here's the Proof
Passing an RTX 3060 through to a Proxmox VM, lying to NVIDIA's driver about being virtualized, and making the whole thing reproducible from one command.
- 12th July 2026
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Teaching a Nix-Packaged Photo App About a GPU It Didn't Know It Had
nixpkgs' Immich package has no CUDA wiring. Building it from source cost hours and an OOM kill. Fetching the vendor's own wheel cost minutes.
- 25th May 2026
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Debugging a Bluetooth Kernel Regression on NixOS
How a two-line bounds check broke Bluetooth on the MT7922 chip, and the journey from dmesg to kernel source to patch.
- 21st October 2025
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The NVMe Drive That Only Failed While Charging
Three PCIe kernel parameters fixed nothing. The actual bug was in the firmware blob, and the fix was pinning a five-day-old package.