It's less than two weeks until our next Rust and NixOS meetup in Mannheim, Germany. We're meeting on the 16th of July at the Mafinex technology center close to the main station. If you want to join us, please sign up for the event on Mobilizon (no account required) or Meetup.com.

https://rheinneckar.events/events/9d740b89-7713-4e19-a112-45aff1670f0f

https://www.meetup.com/hackschool-rhein-neckar/events/301504325/

As first talk, we will hear Andre Dossinger on "Using NixOS for Pragmatical Self-hosting", where he will show us how NixOS can be used in a problem oriented manner to preserve privacy and make complex setups manageable. Questions and discussions are highly encouraged!

Then, we will hear Benjamin Sparks on "Reading from Streams and Writing to Sinks" using Rust and Tokio, with a focus on low runtime overhead, safe buffer management, and robust error handling. He will show us the types and traits Tokio leverages to efficiently decode bytes and encode structured data in a type-safe manner is presented, and give us a practical demonstration of codecs for two different protocols.

Finally, Stefan Machmeier of the EMCL at Heidelberg University will give us an introduction to Nix Flakes, the experimental dependency management system built into Nix since version 2.4 that can be used for reusable Nix libraries as well as your own Nix packages and NixOS configurations.

The talks will be recorded and uploaded after the meetup.

It's less than two weeks until our next Rust and NixOS meetup in Mannheim, Germany. We're meeting on the 16th of July at the Mafinex technology center close to the main station. If you want to join us, please sign up for the event on Mobilizon (no account required) or Meetup.com.

https://rheinneckar.events/events/9d740b89-7713-4e19-a112-45aff1670f0f

https://www.meetup.com/hackschool-rhein-neckar/events/301504325/

As first talk, we will hear Andre Dossinger on "Using NixOS for Pragmatical Self-hosting", where he will show us how NixOS can be used in a problem oriented manner to preserve privacy and make complex setups manageable. Questions and discussions are highly encouraged!

Then, we will hear Benjamin Sparks on "Reading from Streams and Writing to Sinks" using Rust and Tokio, with a focus on low runtime overhead, safe buffer management, and robust error handling. He will show us the types and traits Tokio leverages to efficiently decode bytes and encode structured data in a type-safe manner is presented, and give us a practical demonstration of codecs for two different protocols.

Finally, Stefan Machmeier of the EMCL at Heidelberg University will give us an introduction to Nix Flakes, the experimental dependency management system built into Nix since version 2.4 that can be used for reusable Nix libraries as well as your own Nix packages and NixOS configurations.

The talks will be recorded and uploaded after the meetup.

We are starting a new meetup group for the Rhein-Neckar-Region in Heidelberg, Germany.

The first event will take place on December 19 at the University's Mathematikon.

The twist is that we're beginning with a dual-topic meetup: Nix & Rust.

As there is some overlap between the two communities and we couldn't decide for which of the two we'd rather organize a meetup, we went for both in one.

The meetup is organized through the regional Mobilizon instance: https://rheinneckar.events/events/298e520c-89ca-4754-96f8-e252b96b7a46

Please sign up if you plan on attending so we can make sure there is enough space for all participants. Also feel free to drop an email at nixrust@rheinneckar.events or a Mastodon message at https://rheinneckar.social/@NixRust if you would like to become a speaker for the meetup, be it with a NixOS or Rust topic, or a combination of both!

The current (tentative) schedule:

• 18:30 - Open Doors

• 19:00 - Greeting

• 19:05 - An Introduction to Nix

• 19:30 - Second Talk (Rust related)

• 20:00 - Networking and get together

We are starting a new meetup group for the Rhein-Neckar-Region in Heidelberg, Germany.

The first event will take place on December 19 at the University's Mathematikon.

The twist is that we're beginning with a dual-topic meetup: Nix & Rust.

As there is some overlap between the two communities and we couldn't decide for which of the two we'd rather organize a meetup, we went for both in one.

The meetup is organized through the regional Mobilizon instance: https://rheinneckar.events/events/298e520c-89ca-4754-96f8-e252b96b7a46

Please sign up if you plan on attending so we can make sure there is enough space for all participants. Also feel free to drop an email at nixrust@rheinneckar.events or a Mastodon message at https://rheinneckar.social/@NixRust if you would like to become a speaker for the meetup, be it with a NixOS or Rust topic, or a combination of both!

The current (tentative) schedule:

• 18:30 - Open Doors

• 19:00 - Greeting

• 19:05 - An Introduction to Nix

• 19:30 - Second Talk (Rust related)

• 20:00 - Networking and get together