NixCon 2026

These notes are a little raw, I'll come back to clean things up after the conference. On this page As I mentioned in my post on swap, zram, zswap and hibernate, I went to NixCon2026 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow! I thought I didn't have an open weekend to do a conference like PyCon and NeurIPS last year. Then about two weeks ago I had some plans fall through and work was able to fast track the trip approvals. This was the first time the conference was for days long. They added Friday and Monday as hack days. There was a good turnout yesterday for the hack day, but I was indisposed from the red-eye flight and could not make it. So this is day 2 of the conference, but the first day for me. I'll put the more meta commentary into a retrospective post after the conference. Opening ceremony The schedule changed a bit on the morning of, but the day still started with the opening ceremony. This was the 9th NixCon and there were lots of first-time conference attendees like me. NixCon…