Eelco Dolstra started the Nix project as a PhD student at Utrecht University. He currently works at Determinate Systems. In 2003, Eelco Dolstra started Nix as a research project. Dolstra says that the purpose of the project was to achieve a system for correct software deployment. Previously was a PhD student and postdoc in the Center for Software Technology at Utrecht University, a postdoc at the Software Engineering Research Group in the Department of Software Technology, Delft University of Technology, and a computer scientist at LogicBlox.
Eelco Dolstra has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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606: Nix's Magic Cookbook
March 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 38 mins
aneesh agrawal, anthropic, apple tv, atv-desktop-remote, bang boost, bang bus, chromebook, deep dive, ebpf, eelco dolstra, firefox, flakes, flox, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, kelsey hightower, laser tag champions, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mike kelly, mozilla, nix in the wild, nixbook, nixos, olympia mike, planet nix, producer jeff, pyatv, ron efroni, ross turk, rust, scale, system76, the launch, thunderbird, tui challenge, year of the terminal, 🚐
We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.
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554: SCaLEing Nix
March 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
ai, alaska, california, castamatic, community, daphne muller, dconf, determinate systems, docker, eelco dolstra, flox, fossnorth, fountain, germany, gnome, gsettings, hydra, jim klark, jos poortvliet, lanzaboote, martin wimpress, ml, nextcloud, nix, nix-starter-configs, nixcon, nixcon na, nixos, nixos desktop, nixpkgs, nostr, podcast addict, podcast guru, podverse, ross turk, ryan lahfa, scale, scale 21x, secure boot, self-hosted ai, southern california linux expo, tom bereknyei, ubucon, wimpy, yuba city, zach mitchell
We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time.