Was looking for an alternative myself but seems like there's no free tier? (Garnix had a rather generous one.)

I don't mind self hosting the workers (because my use cases are just in my homelab) but I need to contact you for that? Why isn't that just openly documented?

Note that Garnix is more than a CI system. It also allows for hosting apps with a quite brilliant and AFAIK unique solution to interdependencies. https://garnix.io/blog/call-by-hash/

At least for Nix itself, that's pretty much it except via Dutch.

> The name Nix is derived from the Dutch word niks, meaning nothing; build actions do not see anything that has not been explicitly declared as an input

From page 81 of the original paper: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf

One team member is named Sönke Hahn, so it seems likely.

"gar" is a useful amplifying prefix in German that can be used in all kinds of situations and I think it lacks a direct equivalent in English. Unlike totally, for example, gar can only stand alone in very specific contexts and usually is used more like an intensifying prefix.

So garnix would be the total and utter nothing.

Back to Nix again? I remember one of their employees had a great video series on it, but then they stopped using it because it was too complicated.

good for the team, bad for the community.

truth

Luckily they seem to have open-sourced it [0], so it should still be able to serve this use case, and help others develop in the future.

[0]: https://github.com/garnix-io/garnix-ci

Agreed. Not gonna lie, I am upset and angry to see small companies disappear and be eaten up by larger ones. But I praise them for not building in any vendor lock-in. And I also appreciate them for open-sourcing their toolchain

Yeh... This month has been especially tough. I'm both a customer of cirrus labs (now bought up by OpenAI) and garnix (now bought up by Shopify) and I'm scared that whatever competitor I switch to is also just gonna get bought out.

Now I have two CI providers to replace by the end of the Quarter

Sigh

Presumably it was and they got acqui-hired.