Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

I'm a software engineer, father and wishful amateur surfer. If you've come seeking my political views; you've found the wrong Fareed. fzakaria.com San Jose, CA Joined June 2010

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 weeks ago

I finally got around to putting most of the talks I've done together on a single page. wdyt? fzakaria.com/talks

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Could've done it with a spreadsheet but I'm happy to partake in the #vibe coding. I built an app to figure out how much is the difference from doing lump sum into your mortgage considering your mortgage difference itself can be reinvested in the market. fzakaria.github.io/mortgage-payof…

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 weeks ago

I need 1-2 more endorsers for SC #nix #nixos 2025 elections please to self-nominate. Note: You have to also register your email first which makes you also eligible to vote. discourse.nixos.org/t/the-election… github.com/NixOS/SC-elect…

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 weeks ago

I'm seeking 3 endorsements for SC election to be eligible 🙏 > Reply with a comment containing !endorse github.com/NixOS/SC-elect…

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 weeks ago

How does one nominate themselves for #nix #nixos SC ? I see elections coming up

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

3 weeks ago

Toggling #linux capabilities via modifying a tar file was a pretty sneaky way to get around having to run setcap in a #bazel action fzakaria.com/2025/09/09/baz…

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

3 weeks ago

Give the best parts of #nixcon2025 so I can watch them tonight -- FOMO is real.

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

a month ago

What I enjoy about #bazel is learning how you can improve developer experience and provide insightful tools when you integrate the build system deeply with the underlying language. unused_deps is a great example of this. fzakaria.com/2025/08/27/baz…

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

a month ago

Using #nix #nixos as a c++ library was way easier than I thought. I feel energized to do a whole slew of new projects now 🤌🤤 fzakaria.com/2025/08/17/usi…

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

a month ago

Thinking of hacking on CppNix #nix 1-3PM PDT today.

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 months ago

End result of the stream: github.com/NixOS/nix/pull… #nix got the 1 issue done!

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 months ago

I think I'm going to stream tonight and work on a #nix bug Like people silently clicking keys to a loud fan ? You'll love my stream.

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 months ago

Thank you @confluentinc for hosting us

Thomas Bereknyei @bereknyei

2 months ago

Thank you @confluentinc for hosting us

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Tristan Ross 😺❄️ @RossComputerGuy

2 months ago

@SamRose @domenkozar @bereknyei 100%, with the podcasts I've been on and just talking to people it is a difficult thing to explain. Though I think @fmzakari did an awesome job to explain it at Nix Vegas recently. If we had more people like him explaining it, it might be easier for people to pick up.

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Domen Kožar @domenkozar

2 months ago

nixpkgs is not too big to scale, there are just people leading it for social justice points instead of making it better. It could have been made amazing if is interests to change the culture into building stuff instead of seeking political dominance. I do plan to talk to SC…

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 months ago

Back from #DEFCON33 and the first-ever #nix #nixos community there. Lots of ideas to write-up but one idea from tomberek about starting to think about fun ideas we can do with angled brackets once NIX_PATH is removed fzakaria.com/2025/08/10/ang…

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Tristan Ross 😺❄️ @RossComputerGuy

2 months ago

Nix Vegas has been awesome. Even though this is our first year, it's been awesome. We've only got tomorrow left but I'd like to thank these people who made it possible: @_numinit, @djacu0, @bereknyei, @JoeSpeeds, @grhmc, @ronefroni. It's not everyone who made this possible but

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Farid Zakaria @fmzakari

2 months ago

Is there a more faithful reproduction of #omarchy on #nixos ? I think I saw something called Omanix but wasn't quite there with all the PDF tutorials included etc..