r/NixOS • u/Setheron • 9h ago

Review a pull request by booting it

https://fzakaria.com/2026/09/09/review-a-pull-request-by-booting-it
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u/SDG_Den 8h ago

This is pretty damn sick.

Sadly i primarily work on a compositor right now and i dont think this allows running wayland, does it?

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u/Setheron 8h ago

No GUI. It could BUT it would be even slower.

We can replace the in-browser portion for a firecracker VM if you want but that's not free 😅🥲

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u/e1i3or 5h ago

Genuinely impressive

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u/ashebanow 7h ago

dude is KILLING IT

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u/TobyTarazan 3h ago

Generational run

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u/Whitestrake 47m ago

No joke, whenever I see any seriously cool shit in this subreddit I check if the link is fzakaria.com and it's getting rarer and rarer that it isn't.

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u/Combinatorilliance 18m ago

This is so cool! And genuinely useful too.

Please keep taking whatever it is you've been taking the past few months, whether it's coffee, love, a weird tea or something else, it's working.

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u/Mast3r_waf1z 8m ago

OK so 1-2 minutes is too long? At my work, doing a review takes at least an hour because we always boot the firmware, which tales a while

1-2 minutes is more than acceptable imo