Building trusted foundations. For the postmodern age.
i'm noa. full-spectrum developer who thinks systems should stay understandable and observable - declarative, reproducible structure that doesn't quietly drift into chaos.
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.
i work on nix, kubernetes delivery & ops, zero-trust networking, and mainly declarative systems. nixpkgs package maintainer since 2024. also contributing upstream fixes where the friction shows up.
- flake - my nixos config (which propelled me into the immutable everything field, thank you)
- reverie - my quiet workstation setup. built on universal blue to make my system reproducible and easy to move between devices. now featuring fedora 45.
- mimosa - kubernetes on talos linux & terraform, immutable infrastructure + gitops
- paseo-plugins - independently installable paseo plugins to reduce friction in development (devenv, generative-ui, host-monitor, obsidian, omp fidelity, …)
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.
other stuff:
- astro-llm-translator - making llms translate my docs so i don't have to
- 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