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Porting rhine into nixpkgs

I've recently made the switch back to using a pure Wayland tiling window manager on my Linux machine, which has been great for personal organization and performance. I've been a big fan of the sway window manager for some time (and swayfx fork for the fun eye candy).

However, after visiting the source code repository lately and seeing that some of the last few commits have had help from Claude and other AI tools, I've been less than enthused about it.

NixOS + Drupal Talk: DrupalSouth 2026

Here is a video of the talk I presented at DrupalSouth 2026 talking about the work I've done to help Drupal run as a service on NixOS, via a service module.

Also, here is the slide deck from the presentation if you're curious about browsing through the resources I link at the end. Thanks!

Drupal As A Service: A Year In Open Source

It's been about a year since I started building and maintaining the Drupal service integration for NixOS, and the next nixpkgs stable release is comming up this May, so it seems like a good time to take stock and talk about what has been going on with this project in that time.