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Episode: The Road
Towards a
NixOS UI (nixcon2025)
Description: Imagine a Sim-City-style interface for managing your infrastructure: drag a machine onto the field, connect it to a service, and you're done.
Behind the scenes, the clan.lol project turns that visual layout into the correct Nix modules - automatically configuring machines, managing secrets, and setting up a mesh VPN.
In this presentation we detail:
- Visualize and Configure Networks in 3D
- A "Sim City" inspired 3D-UI to configure your selfhosted network without writing Nix!
- Portable Multi-Machine Module System
- Network-wide modules that configure multiple machines
- Support for complex, role based relationships between machines (e.g. client...