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Effective on 2018-03-01, we will be changing the platform default log format for managed nginx web servers. It will log only truncated IP addresses which makes it impossible to identify individual users. This change is motivated by recent…

Overlays are the new standard mechanism to customize nixpkgs. They replace constructs like packageOverride and overridePackages.

NixOS manages dependencies in a very strict way — sometimes too strict? Here at Flying Circus, many users prefer to compile custom applications in home directories.

It used to run fine for years... but now the (deprecated) Puppet infrastructure at the Flying Circus is showing signs of aging. It's not about server hardware or something like this (fully virtualized anyway) – it's about SSL certificates of Puppet's…

We have prepared an update to my.flyingcircus.io which allows you to manage the users who have access to your projects, but more on that later.