Trusted foundations. For the postmodern age.

i'm noa. full-spectrum developer who thinks systems should be warm environments for people, not cold monuments to engineering.

i treat tooling as part of the thinking process, and tend to keep refining my environments, abstractions, and workflows until the friction mostly disappears and building things feels continuous. that instinct carries over into the systems i make: immutable, declarative, reproducible, and designed with usability in mind.

i've shipped infrastructure serving 800k+ users, and am currently working on agentic tools, developer experience with nix, and formal verification of llm-generated code.

• flake - my NixOS config (which propelled me into the immutable everything field, thank you)
• nixpkgs - package maintainer. sometimes i also vendor packages in my own flake and others'.
• nvirellias-dsh-nuts - personal dsh (deepseek harness) package repository. includes my curated skills and a devenv plugin for portable development environments.

• astro-llm-translator - making LLMs translate my docs so i don't have to

on experimenting with the potential of maintaining a personal fork of public software with llms:

• sidebery-chromium - the beloved vertical tabs extension sidebery ported to chromium browsers.
• aster - my personal fork of chromium with first-class vertical tabs support, a curated set of extensions and flags, and a decluttered interface.

on pursuing declarative ops:

• mimosa - kubernetes cluster with Talos Linux & Terraform. superseded by NixOS.

on testing the waters of container-native os:

• reverie - my quiet workstation setup. built on Universal Blue to make my system reproducible and easy to move between devices. superseded by NixOS.

• immutable os on everything. i name my servers after plants. i (once) made a systemd timer that reminds me to take my meds.
• gave talks at nix meetups in china about convincing companies to use nix (mixed results). also i contribute to hosting the event since meetup #2
• vrchat photography and avatar work
• generally, tending flowers in the wires

• nvirellia.im
• telegram: @noa_virellia
• dn42: AS4242420833