Dependabot Nix Support

About this episode

This episode discusses the new support for Nix in Dependabot and the importance of training in the Nix ecosystem.

Pre-roll transcript: Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast. For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app. --- Dependabot Greenkeeper Nix flake support · Issue #7340 · dependabot/dependabot-core Dependabot version updates now support the Nix ecosystem - GitHub Changelog NixCon 2025 - Supply Chain Security Panel Discussion - YouTube Trivy Security incident 2026-03-19 utdemir/nix-tree --- Nixcademy ad transcript: Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology. As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity. Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing support and the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt. What's worse; morale is affected. But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated. Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz, Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix. It's what they do. So, liberate your Nix experts, prevent technical debt and get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner. Visit nixcademy.com . Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months. They also provide free…

People in this episode

Host: Shahar "Dawn" Or

Topics covered

• Nix ecosystem
• Dependabot
• Nix training
• Security
• Technical debt
• Productivity

Keywords

• Dependabot
• Nix
• Nixcademy
• training
• technical debt
• security
• productivity

Sponsors

Nixcademy, Determinate Nix

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dependabot, Trivy, utdemir/nix-tree

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