#flox — Public Fediverse posts

Okay, first problem with Flox: there doesn't seem to be an easy / generic way to install it 😅

The install docs (https://flox.dev/docs/install-flox/install/) have links to DEB and RPM packages, as well as instructions for Nix; but I'm on another distro... I suppose step 1 would be to install Nix? 🤔

(Instructions unclear; got my nix stuck in GPU fans)

#flox #nix #planetnix #scale23x

Next talk at #scale23x, we're moving to #planetnix, with "You Know Nix. Your Team Doesn't. Now What?" by Rok Garbas.

IOW, how to usr #Flox to evangelize #Nix / help your coworkers to get on board with Nix but with a gentler learning curve.

#PlanetNix starts tomorrow in Pasadena. Join us to talk reproducibility, secure software by construction, and just some great community conversation.

There is also some limited edition swag.

#nix #planetnix #flox

And thanks to our sponsors!

It's all happenings. #PlanetNix #nix #flox

We’re at @cfgmgmtcamp in Ghent! 👋

Big shoutout to Tanja, Stahnke, Rok, 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 without requiring you to learn the Nix language or climb its steep learning curve.

You can also swing by our booth to chat about reproducible environments and the power of #Nix ❄️

#cfgmgmtcamp

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! Experience has taught you that setting up a local dev environment is a Sisyphean enterprise: things always break, so you find yourself repeating the same motions over and over again.

This time, however, you’ve got #Flox. And that makes all the difference.

https://flox.dev/blog/setting-up-a-new-laptop-made-easy-with-flox/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025q4_tofu_awa_laptop_devs_floxcli_gl%20&utm_content=blog

🎉 Wow, who knew #Kubernetes needed another layer of complexity? Enter #Flox, where you can now enjoy the thrill of pulling hash-pinned packages and living in fear of #cryptographic #hashes, all while pretending your deployments are suddenly faster. 🚀 Because nothing says "cutting-edge" like making your #DevOps life an even bigger nightmare. 😜
https://flox.dev/kubernetes/ #complexity #HackerNews #ngated

I might've found a local development setup with #Flox and #Just that I don't hate...

Layering and composition are two powerful ways to create and share #Flox environments.

✅ Layering gives you flexibility in emergent, unpredictable situations.

✅ Composition gives you reproducibility, auditability, and predictable behavior at runtime—at the cost of some upfront design and testing.

Read the full guide for examples, pros & cons, and practical workflows 👉 https://flox.dev/blog/layering-and-composing-flox-environments/

We’ve been talking a lot about Build & Publish lately but here’s something for those who may not know #Flox yet.

In this quick demo video, Ross shows what that looks like:

- Installing tools
- Spinning up a dev environment
- Keeping everything portable, reproducible, and easy to share

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aidi5svDml8

How many tools do you use to manage your tooling?

#Flox gives you a new way to work with packages and build reproducible development environments without using containers.

✅ It gives users transparent, no-hassle access to the tools, files, and environment variables in their local systems.
✅ It enables teams to create portable, reproducible development environments that behave the same way anywhere, taking advantage of available OS, CPU, and even GPU capabilities.

https://youtu.be/aidi5svDml8

@mateovich yeah! It's called @neodb and another one in the works called #Flox!

Are you tired of the README game? 👀

Automate yours with #Flox.

Using a catalog of over 150k software dependencies, Flox can deliver exactly the dev environment you need. It's consistent, reproducible, and auditable.

https://flox.dev/

We’re at #DevOpsDays Atlanta!

Come say hi to Ross and Katherine from the Flox team 💜

We’d love to meet you and chat about developer workflows, reproducibility, and how to make managing environments a lot easier.

#flox

Get a quick intro to Flox!

Zach walks you through how to set up, customize, and share your development environments (no containers or heavy lifting required.)

You’ll learn:

- What #Flox is and how it’s different from apt and Homebrew
- How to create and configure project-specific environments
- Managing packages, environment variables, and shell hooks with the manifest file
- Handling system-specific dependencies and cross-platform compatibility

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/aw6kzxFNC-8

Flox is a package manager with superpowers + access to >120K packages 📦.

This week's #flox Fun Package Friday 🎉 showcases `jrnl`📝—an app for creating journals + more.

Learn how getting + running `jrnl` is easy with Flox! 🚀

Get the deets 👉 https://buff.ly/40T2Egw

What goes into 'Floxifying' a software project? Learn how to:

👉 Build locally 🏗️ with #flox
👉 Package 📦 for CI
👉 Containerize 🐳 for prod

Using containers 🐳 VMs 🖥️ or lambdas 🐑? Flox works with your workflow!

Our new article has the deets.

https://buff.ly/42rfO5V

#nix #devops

Ever wondered what goes into "Floxifying" a project?

Wonder no more!

Our latest article exploring how to use Flox to build locally 👉 CI 👉 run in prod

If you're using containers 🐳 VMs 🖥️ lambdas 🐑 #flox fits into your workflow

Read all about it:

https://buff.ly/42rfO5V

#nix #devops

What does it look like to "Floxify" one of your software projects?

👉 How much work 🛠️ is actually involved?
👉 How do you build locally 🏗️ with #flox
👉 Package 📦 for testing in CI
👉 Containerize 🐳 for prod?

Our latest article has the scoop!

https://buff.ly/42rfO5V

#nix #devops

🌟 Learn #kubernetes on your laptop with kind (Kubernetes-in-Docker) + #flox.

On Windows + macOS + Linux, use Flox to create + share a portable kind runtime that just works. It's perfect for local dev + learning + testing in CI.

Read all about it:

https://buff.ly/40d09nT

If you're in San Francisco this Thursday come and hang with other #flox users + have a cup of coffee on us!

🕒 Jan. 23 4-5 PM
📍 Philz Coffee (1 Front St #100)
☕ Coffee is free/gratis

Talk about Flox and #nix / reproducibility and the #sdlc / or anything u like

Register here: https://buff.ly/42olhdz

kind, #kubernetes-in-Docker, makes it easy to emulate a production k8s environment locally.

🌍 With #flox, you can create a portable kind runtime that works on Windows + macOS + Linux!

📖 Get the scoop in our new article:

https://buff.ly/40d09nT

🔧 kind, aka #kubernetes-in-Docker, lets you emulate a production #K8s environment locally. 🖥️

It's a great way to learn K8s right on your laptop.

🚀 #flox makes it easy to create + share a portable kind environment that runs anywhere.

👉 Learn more here:

https://buff.ly/40d09nT

Flox delivers reproducibility and enables secrets management for dev environments.
Learn how DevOps leader Pierre Beucher uses #flox + #novops for portable, auth-ready dev environments. 🔧 Get the scoop on Pierre's blog:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox delivers reproducibility and enables secrets management for dev environments.
Learn how DevOps leader Pierre Beucher uses #flox + #novops for portable, auth-ready dev environments. 🔧 Get the scoop on Pierre's blog:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox delivers reproducibility and enables secrets management for dev environments.
Learn how DevOps leader Pierre Beucher uses #flox + #novops for portable, auth-ready dev environments. 🔧 Get the scoop on Pierre's blog:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox delivers reproducibility and enables secrets management for dev environments.
Learn how DevOps leader Pierre Beucher uses #flox + #novops for portable, auth-ready dev environments. 🔧 Get the scoop on Pierre's blog:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox delivers reproducibility and enables secrets management for dev environments.
Learn how DevOps leader Pierre Beucher uses #flox + #novops for portable, auth-ready dev environments. 🔧 Get the scoop on Pierre's blog:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox enables reproducible dev environments + built-in secrets management.

DevOps leader Pierre Beucher explores how #flox + #novops support portable setups that integrate authentication + run anywhere, locally or in CI. Read his latest here:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox enables reproducible dev environments + built-in secrets management.

DevOps leader Pierre Beucher explores how #flox + #novops support portable setups that integrate authentication + run anywhere, locally or in CI. Read his latest here:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox enables reproducible dev environments + built-in secrets management.

DevOps leader Pierre Beucher explores how #flox + #novops support portable setups that integrate authentication + run anywhere, locally or in CI. Read his latest here:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox enables reproducible dev environments + built-in secrets management.

DevOps leader Pierre Beucher explores how #flox + #novops support portable setups that integrate authentication + run anywhere, locally or in CI. Read his latest here:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Flox enables reproducible dev environments + built-in secrets management.

DevOps leader Pierre Beucher explores how #flox + #novops support portable setups that integrate authentication + run anywhere, locally or in CI. Read his latest here:

https://buff.ly/3WmFTzb

#nix #devops

Love the #AWS CLI? 🤖✨ Learn how to simplify your team workflows with #Flox 🚀🔧

Everyone on a team works in a standard reproducible environment 🌟🔄
Secrets stay secure 🔒
No setup chaos 🚫⚙️

Read about it in our new article: https://flox.dev/blog/flox-and-aws-taking-the-chaos-out-of-secrets-management/

#awscloud #reInvent #DevSecOps

Nouvelle #playlist #musique disponible ici :
https://tinyurl.com/5n8chrda

En #écoute :
Vundabar
Talking to Shadows
Flower Face
Geneva Jacuzzi
Local natives
The WAEVE
Peach Fuzz
Loma
Flox ft Max Livio
Nauti Siren
#Vundabar #TalkingtoShadows
#FlowerFace
#GenevaJacuzzi
#Localnatives
#TheWAEVE
#PeachFuzz
#Loma
#Flox ft #MaxLivio
#NautiSiren

Bon appétit à vos oreilles !

#music #musicplaylist #loveplaylist #goodvibes #goodsound #musiques #musiquedumoment #musiquesactuelles

Nouvelle #playlist #musique disponible ici :
https://tinyurl.com/5n8chrda

En #écoute :
Vundabar
Talking to Shadows
Flower Face
Geneva Jacuzzi
Local natives
The WAEVE
Peach Fuzz
Loma
Flox ft Max Livio
Nauti Siren
#Vundabar #TalkingtoShadows
#FlowerFace
#GenevaJacuzzi
#Localnatives
#TheWAEVE
#PeachFuzz
#Loma
#Flox ft #MaxLivio
#NautiSiren

Bon appétit à vos oreilles !

#music #musicplaylist #loveplaylist #goodvibes #goodsound #musiques #musiquedumoment #musiquesactuelles

Nouvelle #playlist #musique disponible ici :
https://tinyurl.com/5n8chrda

En #écoute :
Vundabar
Talking to Shadows
Flower Face
Geneva Jacuzzi
Local natives
The WAEVE
Peach Fuzz
Loma
Flox ft Max Livio
Nauti Siren
#Vundabar #TalkingtoShadows
#FlowerFace
#GenevaJacuzzi
#Localnatives
#TheWAEVE
#PeachFuzz
#Loma
#Flox ft #MaxLivio
#NautiSiren

Bon appétit à vos oreilles !

#music #musicplaylist #loveplaylist #goodvibes #goodsound #musiques #musiquedumoment #musiquesactuelles

Nouvelle #playlist #musique disponible ici :
https://tinyurl.com/5n8chrda

En #écoute :
Vundabar
Talking to Shadows
Flower Face
Geneva Jacuzzi
Local natives
The WAEVE
Peach Fuzz
Loma
Flox ft Max Livio
Nauti Siren
#Vundabar #TalkingtoShadows
#FlowerFace
#GenevaJacuzzi
#Localnatives
#TheWAEVE
#PeachFuzz
#Loma
#Flox ft #MaxLivio
#NautiSiren

Bon appétit à vos oreilles !

#music #musicplaylist #loveplaylist #goodvibes #goodsound #musiques #musiquedumoment #musiquesactuelles

#PLUG mtg starting in 15 minutes

#MySQL community manager Dave Stokes covers "MySQL 8.0 Indexes, Histograms, and Other Ways to Speed Up Your Queries"

@FLOX_advocate covers creating presentations w/ #AsciiDoc

A virtual meeting in #BigBlueButton

https://gettogether.community/events/11827/east-valley-meeting/

https://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html

We'll have a resume review event before the Free Software #Stammtisch on Tue the 20th

https://gettogether.community/events/10921/floss-jobs-networking-event/

#FLOSSevent #FLOX #FLOSSdatabase #LocalGroup #BBB #GetTogether

Capture STDOUT, STDERR and return status in shell variables

This second answer ( the one with the banana function ) shows how to capture all three to variables in bash without needing tmp files

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13806626/capture-both-stdout-and-stderr-in-bash

----
banana() {
echo "banana to stdout"
echo >&2 "banana to stderr"
return 42
}
----

----
. <({ berr=$({ bout=$(banana); bret=$?; } 2>&1; declare -p bout bret >&2); declare -p berr; } 2>&1)
----

Then check values of $bout, $berr, $bret

#ShellTricks #bash #FLOX

Capture STDOUT, STDERR and return status in shell variables

This second answer ( the one with the banana function ) shows how to capture all three to variables in bash without needing tmp files

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13806626/capture-both-stdout-and-stderr-in-bash

----
banana() {
echo "banana to stdout"
echo >&2 "banana to stderr"
return 42
}
----

----
. <({ berr=$({ bout=$(banana); bret=$?; } 2>&1; declare -p bout bret >&2); declare -p berr; } 2>&1)
----

Then check values of $bout, $berr, $bret

#ShellTricks #bash #FLOX

started my day with tea from my #TeaGL buddy (thanks!), will be working on the #SeaGL sponsor prospectus today

our next organizing meeting is Monday at 17:00 Pacific (UTC-7)

https://seagl.org/get_involved.html

@rrix

#FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FreeAsInTea #FLOX

it's been a couple weeks since I pointed out Dawn E. Collett's awesome #LCA2021 presentation: "The Privacy Tax: How tracking and hacking affect disabled people, and what we can do about it"

Dawn points out many extra costs for privacy for disabled people

Many of her topics affect all of us (web-trackers anyone?)

https://linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/41/

#HighlyRecommended #LCA #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #privacy #PrivacyTax

#TeaGL call back at #LibrePlanet2021 from our impresario :)

#FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #FreeAsInTea

Container Registries & The Open-Source Observability Problem in 20 minutes at #FOSSASIA Summit

https://eventyay.com/e/fa96ae2c/session/6869

#FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSScommunity

"Free Software is not necessarily better, safer and more ethical but it gives us a chance to be better, safer and more ethical" -- Karen Sandler

#FOSSASIA Summit #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSScommunity

Karen points out that we have lots of amazing software available and mentions that they're using #BigBlueButton for the panel and conference

#FOSSASIA Summit #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSScommunity #BBB

Harish worked with Singapore government to make sure contact tracing app for the pandemic is Open Source

#FOSSASIA Summit #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSScommunity

"I would like to see the Free Software community serving the average person" -- Bruce Perens

#FOSSASIA Summit #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSScommunity

Harish Pillay posted, from the Red hat code of conduct and ethics (pdf above): "Participation in an open source community project, whether maintained by the Company or by another commercial or non-commercial entity or organization, does not constitute a conflict of interest even where you may make a determination in the interest ofthe project that is adverse to the Company’s interests."

#FOSSASIA Summit #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #FLOSSbusiness #FLOSScommunity