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+Title: #05 - NixOS Weekly
+Date: 2020-05-27
+Description: One today is worth two tomorrows - Benjamin Franklin
+
+# News
+
+## Announcements
+
+- [Nix 2.3.5 release](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.3.5)
+
+  - long awaited support for macOS Catalina, see https://hydra.nixos.org/build/119559243/download/1/manual/#sect-macos-installation
+  - a bunch of options to invoke installer (pass --help to see what's there)
+  - various bugfixes to the installer
+  - macos sandboxing improvements
+
+- [Nix for GitHub Actions v9](https://github.com/cachix/install-nix-action)
+
+  v9 release saves you a bunch of time when bootstrapping Nix (you can even disable adding of channels)
+
+  - Linux: ~20s -> ~7s
+  - MacOS: ~90s -> ~20s
+
+- [Nix Flakes, Part 1: An introduction and tutorial](https://www.tweag.io/posts/2020-05-25-flakes.html)
+
+  This is the first in a series of blog posts intended to provide a gentle introduction to flakes,
+  a new Nix feature that improves reproducibility, composability and usability in the Nix ecosystem. 
+
+  This blog post describes why flakes were introduced, and give a short tutorial on how to use them.
+
+- [Earnest Capital Invests in Cachix](https://earnestcapital.com/earnest-capital-invests-in-cachix/)
+
+## Tutorials & Resources
+
+- [Shopify Engineering: What Is Nix?](https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/what-is-nix)
+
+  Over the past year and a bit, Shopify has been progressively rebuilding parts of our developer tooling with Nix.
+
+  Burke Libbey dives into explaining Nix before diving into what's planned for the future.
+
+- [Nix: Re-running Fixed Output Derivations - At the Right Time](https://blog.eigenvalue.net/nix-rerunning-fixed-output-derivations/)
+
+  Have you ever been burned by forgetting to update a hash of a Fixed Output
+  Derivations? Or realizing it hasn't worked since a while during an update?
+
+  This article explores your options at re-running fixed output derivations on
+  input changes.
+
+- [My NixOS Desktop Flow](https://christine.website/blog/nixos-desktop-flow-2020-04-25)
+
+- [Learn NixOS by turning a Raspberry Pi into a Wireless Router](https://hackmd.io/dnJSEwjSSHCkzWFSZwbxeA)
+
+- [Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi 3](https://citizen428.net/blog/installing-nixos-raspberry-pi-3/)
+
+- [NixOS on a Raspberry Pi: creating a custom SD image with OpenSSH out of the box](https://rbf.dev/blog/2020/05/custom-nixos-build-for-raspberry-pis/)
+
+- [Naive NixOS Rust Development](https://duan.ca/2020/05/07/nix-rust-development/)
+
+- [nixology: Nix screencasts by Burke Libbey](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGI9KQ3_HP_OFRG6R-p4iFgMSK1t5BHs)
+
+- [Keeping Up Appearances: Non-native macOS Light/Dark Mode](https://cmacr.ae/post/2020-05-03-keeping-up-appearances-non-native-macos-light-dark-mode/)
+
+- [Super Bootable 64](https://christine.website/blog/super-bootable-64-2020-05-06)
+
+- [Managing Firefox on macOS with Nix](https://cmacr.ae/post/2020-05-09-managing-firefox-on-macos-with-nix/)
+
+- [Nix Generator Functions for Sway](https://cmacr.ae/post/2020-05-10-nix-generator-functions-for-sway/)
+
+- [Functional Fika — Nix and Haskell](https://maxfieldchen.com/posts/2020-05-16-Functional-Fika-Haskell-Nix-Cabal.html)
+
+- [Debugging the micronaut package and code smells in Nix](https://dev.to/moaxcp/debugging-the-micronaut-package-and-code-smells-in-nix-dhh)
+
+- [Nix Community Mumble](mumble://mumble.nix-community.org/?version=1.2.0)
+
+  A Mumble sever has been provisioned for use by the Nix community. Feel free to lurk in the lobby or
+  create your own channels for hosting meetings and discussions. Join with `nix run nixpkgs.mumble -c
+  mumble mumble://$USER@mumble.nix-community.org`.
+
+- [Nix Package Versions](https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions)
+
+  A tool to find all past versions of a package that were available in a channel, the revision you
+  can download it from, and a copy-paste command for how to install it.
+
+- [nix-examples](https://github.com/vlktomas/nix-examples)
+
+  Showcase of Nix usage for various technologies.
+
+- [NixKite: Buildkite pipeline generation tool using the NixOS module system](https://github.com/johnae/nixkite)
+
+- [Development with Nix in Python](https://thomazleite.com/posts/development-with-nix-python/)
+
+- [Deploying heterogeneous service-oriented systems locally with Disnix](https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2020/05/deploying-heterogeneous-service.html)
+
+# Contribute to NixOS Weekly Newsletter
+
+This work would not be possible without the many contributions of the community.
+
+You can help too! Create or comment on the [pull request](https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-weekly/pulls)
+for the next edition or look at the
+[issue tracker](https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-weekly/issues) to add other improvements.
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