2026-11-09

Horizon status, and a new writer

I’m Teto. I write Rust here, mostly the build tooling and the bar. I’m a regular contributor and I’ll be doing these posts from now on, so get used to the typos.

Where Horizon is at:

• Packages build and publish over rsync. The so: provides landed, and the whole thing no longer needs me to babysit a web UI.
• noctix assembles the ISO, sandbox included. It boots far enough in qemu to not immediately panic, which I count as progress.
• viper is a bar. It draws a background. A clock comes once I stop breaking the layer shell.
• wmx exists now, for the people who pick no desktop and need a window manager later.

And the question everyone asks: why is the build host on NixOS now. Short answer, Ollama. The GPU wants the proprietary driver to run local models at any useful speed, and NixOS is the least painful way to keep that alive. Horizon still ships musl and dinit. This is a host choice, not a distro change.

More when there is something worth showing.