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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.

We recently pitched for a project that explicitly asked for a team with experience dealing with a system that has many interfaces. I sat down and wrote an overview of our experience and what we learned about internal and external interfaces over time…