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Newest Dev Report Nix Testing

Debugging Offline Nix Builds

A journey through hermetic builds, mass rebuilds, and network injection hackery

29 Jan 2026 · 6 min

Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm

A look back at what we built in 2025 and where Clan is heading next

12 Jan 2026 · 19 min

Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan

feat. Nix, microVMs, and GPUs

26 Sep 2025 · 8 min

Dev Report NixCon 2025

The Road Towards a NixOS UI

Clan @ NixCon 2025

22 Sep 2025 · 1 min

Why NixOS Modules Need Two JSON Schemas

Bridging NixOS modules and JSON Schema: safer configs, fewer type guards, stronger guarantees.

18 Sep 2025 · 5 min

Clan + macOS

Clan can now manage macOS machines

9 Sep 2025 · 3 min

Info networking

Networking

a new way to wire up your computers with clan

28 Aug 2025 · 4 min

nix-unit

Testing Nix evaluation logic with nix-unit

8 Jul 2025 · 4 min

Clan + Yubikeys

A side quest through time and space... and AGE plugins, the Clan CLI and more.

16 May 2025 · 6 min

How to Democratise DevOps

Or: The Long Search for a Mental Model

6 Apr 2025 · 3 min

Vars: A framework for managing secrets and computed values

We developed vars, a NixOS extension designed to automatically generate both secret and non-secret values.

24 Mar 2025 · 6 min

VPN Benchmarks Part 1

A framework for automated distributed network tests

7 Mar 2025 · 4 min

nix-select

a pure and lazy query language in nix

17 Feb 2025 · 2 min

Providing Type-safe interfaces between NixOS and other languages

One method for creating type-safe interfaces in a nix based software stack

11 Sep 2024 · 6 min

Introducing NixOS Facter

Declarative Hardware Configuration in NixOS

19 Jul 2024 · 4 min

Declarative Backups and Restore

Our goal with Clan is to give users control over their data. However, with great power comes great responsibility, and owning your data means you also need to take care of backups yourself.

24 Jun 2024 · 4 min

Introducing the NixOS to JSON Schema Converter

Discover our new library designed to extract JSON schema interfaces from NixOS modules, streamlining frontend development

25 May 2024 · 4 min

New documentation site and weekly new meetup

We are still working on improving the installation procedures, so stay tuned.

16 Apr 2024 · 1 min

Introducing Clan: Full-Stack Computing Redefined

Introducing Clan, a new model for a decentralized network, designed to provide families, smaller groups, and small businesses a platform that’s private, secure, and user-friendly. „Clan reclaims computing and networking from the ground up.”

19 Mar 2024 · 4 min

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