We’re proud sponsors of SCALE 23x — the community-run open source conference! 📍 Pasadena 🗓 March 5–8 200+ talks. 3,000+ attendees. And if you’re into reproducibility, Nix, and modern AI infrastructure…join us at #PlanetNix, our colocated event happening during SCALE ❄️ clickhou.se/4rpAchk

Join Stormy Peters (Head of Open Source Marketing and Strategy, AWS) and James Bayer (Product Leader, Flox) at #PlanetNix~ They’ll explore what it takes to make #reproducibility the norm, the tradeoffs involved, and why it matters in both enterprises and open source. buff.ly/ZchEOVB

PlanetNix Speaker 👉 Craig Jackson! His talk illustrates a novel use case for NixOS—a cloud-native deployment model that treats edge nodes as declarative, reproducible systems while preserving the flexibility required for real-world networking and hardware constraints. buff.ly/ZchEOVB

🎤 #PlanetNix Speaker announcement! Spencer Willett is an embedded software engineer with a background in physics and computer science. This talk is a set of fun, practical adventures with machine learning on edge compute running NixOS. Don’t miss it! Sign up today 👉 buff.ly/ZchEOVB

#PlanetNix 👉 @wespayne Wes will perform live surgery on ELF binaries to make them truly portable. He'll explore using patchelf to rewrite dynamic loaders, convert absolute paths to portable $ORIGIN lookups, and even patch Python interpreters to load system libraries. buff.ly/Fi5z6E5

#AI increases the speed and volume of change across your entire software lifecycle—but your accountability stays the same. Flox provides deterministic foundations for probabilistic workloads, so velocity doesn't come at the cost of reliability, security, or compliance. 👉 buff.ly/FKmd72Z

#PlanetNix Speaker Announcement! ❄️ Please welcome Ashley Mensah, Developer Relations Engineer at NetBird, working on open source networking and developer experience. Ashley will give a talk on Declarative Mesh Networking with #Nix 🚀 Join us on March 5–6 in Pasadena! buff.ly/Fi5z6E5

Flox 1.9.0 is here! 🎉 The activation subsystem was rewritten from Bash to Rust, and process parentage was reworked to allow automated invocations of Flox (such as third-party service managers) to track processes. More in the release notes 👉

#PlanetNix 2026 Announcement! Join Surma and Eelco Dolstra for their talk: builtins.wasm: Nix Meets WebAssembly. See you in Pasadena? buff.ly/Fi5z6E5

Flox Happy Hour for #Nix Folks 🥳 Flox is hosting a happy hour for the Nix community after #PlanetNix 2026! Swing by to say hi, chat all things Nix (or whatever you’re hacking on), and meet fellow Nix folks. Drinks are on us 🚀 Save your spot! buff.ly/l1OOGMY

🎤 #PlanetNix: @RossComputerGuy & Yuning Liang This talk shares the journey of bringing NixOS to RISC-V as the architecture becomes first-class for Linux. Learn more and save your spot! buff.ly/Fi5z6E5

🎤 PlanetNix Speaker alert ❄️ Join us in Pasadena to meet Morgan! He is an embedded security engineer at @Viasat, a member of the SoCal NixOS User Group, and one of the organizers of Nix Vegas. Talk: Flack the Planet: Turning flakes into the web framework no one asked for.👇 buff.ly/Fi5z6E5

#PlanetNix Speaker announcement! ❄️ Bernardo has been a Nix contributor since 2017 and now works on #Nix at @Anthropic. He'll cover: ✅ what Nix already gets right for distributed builds ✅ the practical options teams use to distribute builds ✅ how the ecosystem could evolve buff.ly/Fi5z6E5

New on the blog! When #AI can go from CVE → exploit in minutes, security workflows built on scanning, sampling, and human review just don’t hold up anymore. This piece argues for a different foundation: deterministic environments, hash-based identity, and SBOMs. buff.ly/vuyKZiw

🎤 PlanetNix 2026 speaker highlight Sam Fu (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic) is joining PlanetNix with a deep-dive war story: Nix Builds 🤝 K8s Dev Environments: A Love Hate Relationship in 5 Acts See you in Pasadena? 👀 planetnix.com

Flox Happy Hour for #Nix Folks! ❄️ After PlanetNix 2026, we’re hosting a happy hour for the Nix community. Swing by to say hi, chat all things Nix (or whatever you’re hacking on), and meet fellow Nix folks. Drinks are on us 🙂 Save your spot 👉 buff.ly/l1OOGMY

We just published a deep dive into the Flox VS Code extension: what it does, how it works, and where it actually saves you time day-to-day. Check it out 👉 buff.ly/LuCUoU7

🎤 New PlanetNix 2026 speaker! Jacek Galowicz will give a talk: Under the Hood of the NixOS Test Driver: Architecture, Containers, and Hardware Passthrough Sign up today 👉 planetnix.com

We’re at Config Management Camp in Ghent! 👋 Big shoutout to Tanja, @stahnma.us, @rok-garbas.bsky.social, and Dan for representing the Flox crew. Wednesday at 2pm — join our workshop where we’ll use #Flox to introduce the core ideas behind the Nix ecosystem! And swing by our booth! #cfgmgmtcamp

#PlanetNix2026 Agenda is LIVE! Two days, two tracks, with a mix of talks and hands-on workshops focused on real use cases and getting hands-on with #Nix. Check out the schedule and save your spot! planetnix.com/agenda

We’re excited to welcome @jacquie.bsky.social to the team, helping lead our DevRel efforts 🎉 Jacquie brings 10+ years of experience across DevOps and Developer Advocacy, with a background that spans AWS and HashiCorp. Welcome aboard, Jacquie! 💜

We’ll be at Config Management Camp next week! @stahnma.us, our VP of Engineering, is teeing up two sessions for infrastructure and platform teams. Talk: “We Built for Predictability; the Workloads Didn’t Care." Workshop: “Flox: The power of Nix without the pain (mostly)” buff.ly/nVJ63zh

“You start with an awesome developer experience, and you end up with an awesome production experience.” Featuring @kelseyhightower.com and @stahnma.us! Shoutout to the @kube.fm team for the video 🚀

Join Priya Ananthasankar, Principal Software Engineer at @microsoft.com, at #Planet Nix 2026 to explore how scaling distributed systems breaks traditional container workflows. See you there? Sign up now: planetnix.com

We’re excited to present our next speaker 👉 @refroni.bsky.social , CEO & Co-founder of @flox.dev and the President at the NixOS Foundation. Ron will share an update on the health of the #Nix ecosystem and what it takes to keep it secure and sustainable. planetnix.com

We’ll be at Config Management Camp in Ghent, Belgium on February 2–4! Our VP of Engineering, @stahnma.bsky.social will be speaking about something many infrastructure teams are running into right now: “We Built for Predictability; the Workloads Didn’t Care.” See you there?

Modern teams don’t fail because they chose the wrong package manager. They struggle because their tools were never designed to describe the entire environment as code. Read the full breakdown on our blog → buff.ly/CcJZH2A

We’re excited to welcome our next PlanetNix speaker Alex Kretzschmar! In this talk, Alex shares how he thinks about where different parts of a setup belong and how he decides what goes in Nix and what stays in Docker. More announcements coming soon 👀 planetnix.com

We’re excited to welcome Graham Bennett, Managing Director at PDT Partners! The NVIDIA DGX Spark is a desktop AI workstation. In this talk, Graham will show how NixOS makes it much easier to install, configure, and run AI workflows on it. Join us planetnix.com

We’re thrilled to announce the next PlanetNix speaker: Burke Libbey, Principal Engineer at Shopify. In his talk, "Tectonix: The bedrock of Shopify’s monorepo", you’ll get a tour of the build system he’s building for Shopify’s “World” monorepo. planetnix.com

Flox v1.8.2 is live! 🚀 🟣 `reference` can now be used as an alias for `remote` when including environments 🟣 FloxHub environments no longer trigger unnecessary relocking delays when first opened. 🟣 `flox activate` won’t touch lockfiles for formatting-only changes And more 👉 buff.ly/oaV71II

Last call for speakers! @planetnix.bsky.social (hosted by Flox, co-located with SCALE in Pasadena) is looking for talks + workshops of all skill levels. - You don’t need to be a Nix wizard. - You don’t need to use Nix full-time. CFP closes tomorrow! 👉 Submit your proposal: buff.ly/WbnK9RP

Whether you’re building software or running it, Flox uses familiar commands to create, ship, and share environments that behave the same across Linux, macOS, and Windows (WSL2), using platform-optimized binaries and hardware acceleration where available. buff.ly/GUjFH3m

“When you ask me to build something, I don’t just write code — I create the entire environment. With Flox, I can search packages, install dependencies, and build and run your app.” (Claude, AI coding agent). #Flox works with your favorite #AI coding tools, check it out: buff.ly/IFw66XV

The latest episode of @softwaredaily.bsky.social features @stahnma.us, VP of Engineering at Flox, in conversation with Kevin Ball. 🚀 A practical discussion on reproducible environments and building software that behaves the same everywhere. 🎧 Give it a listen! buff.ly/SDEWr1W

Michael Stahnke is the VP of Engineering at @flox.dev. He joins @kball.llc to talk about Flox, building on top of Nix, software security, and much more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/08/f...

We’re excited to welcome Alejandro Vogel to the team! 👋 Alejandro is joining our Business Operations team, where he’ll help streamline processes and support critical ops and finance work across the company. Welcome aboard, Alejandro! We’re excited to have you with us 🚀

Test drive 30+ #AI coding agents / CLIs / MCP tools on your own machine, without breaking anything. This repo gives you turnkey Flox environments for tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, plus MCP servers, local services, and more. buff.ly/WfTk995

Happy 2026! 🎉

Scheduled some time off to close out the year? 👀 There are 30+ AI assistants / MCP servers / agentic tools out there. Can you test them all on your own machine without breaking anything? Spoiler: yes, you can! Perfect for #vibecoding, prototyping, and #agenticdevelopment. buff.ly/UCIuizs

You got a new laptop for Christmas. Suh-weet! You absolutely want to build software with it, which means setting up your local dev environment. Easier said than done! This time, however, you’ve got #Flox. And that makes all the difference. buff.ly/BGDkDlk

30+ AI assistants / MCP servers / spec-driven-AI tools. Can you test drive all of them? On your own machine? Without breaking anything? (Spoiler alert: Yes, you can!) Read on to find out why Flox and FloxHub are perfect for vibe coding! buff.ly/UCIuizs

Tired of chasing “works on my machine” issues? With Flox, you can create polyglot development environments that start with a single command, run the same on every laptop, and stay fully aligned with your CI and production setups. Try Flox for free 👉 buff.ly/ybrekAQ #devtools

Different machines, different tools, and changes make it difficult to maintain reliability at scale. Flox simplifies this by giving platform engineers a way to create reproducible, standardized environments that work the same on every laptop, CI runner, and production system. buff.ly/DH6B41a

Flox v.1.8.0 is here! 🎉 We’ve improved behavior on remote environments (now called FloxHub environments). 🚀 Faster activations with improved network performance ➡️ Offline-friendly workflows 🟣 Add custom labels when containerizing with Flox — via the CLI or in the manifest buff.ly/CyY3nkK

#PlanetNix 2026: First Speakers Announced! We’re excited to welcome our first speakers to Planet Nix 2026: ⭐ @kelseyhightower.com ⭐ Priya Ananthasankar ⭐ Stormy Peters ⭐ Ron Efroni If you’ve learned something worth sharing, we’d love to hear from you. 😎 CFP is still open! buff.ly/3npbtj6

We’re happy to share that Flox has been named a Winter 2025 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award Winner! Intellyx speaks with hundreds of tech vendors each year, so we’re grateful to be included! Thanks to the Intellyx team, and congrats to everyone highlighted this year! buff.ly/18GCjdf

If you’re building software with a mix of services, tools, and #AI assistants, this is a great deep dive into what reproducible environments actually look like when they’re done right. If you care about #developer experience, reliability, or agentic workflows, take a look! buff.ly/xdzwUa8

When Michael talks about “meeting users where they are,” this is exactly what he means. Full recording: buff.ly/IRa0CKj

We’re excited to welcome James Bayer as our new product leader! James has spent his career working closely with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams to build products customers love. Most recently, he led product at FluidCloud, and before that spent over five years at HashiCorp. 🚀