June 2026 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments and business value for nix-community/home-manager. Highlights include delivering a regression test to ensure safe configuration reloads for the Aerospace module by validating the activation script against the current mode via list-modes. This work reduces risk of misconfigurations during reload and strengthens deployment safety nets.

May 2026 monthly summary for nix-community/home-manager focusing on reliability and stability in the activation workflow. Key feature delivered: AeroSpace Activation Config Reload Guard, which prevents activation failures by verifying that the AeroSpace service is running before reloading the generated configuration during Home Manager activation. The guard uses a running-instance probe via 'aerospace list-modes --current' and skips 'reload-config' if AeroSpace is not yet running. Commit: 58e05d16d771614f061e46a7afb77e98fcdc4c75. Impact: Reduced activation downtime and startup churn when AeroSpace is offline or still starting, improving deployment reliability and user experience. This change minimizes false positives in activation failures and simplifies troubleshooting in mixed boot-up scenarios. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Nix/NixOS, Home Manager activation flow, onChange hook enhancements, AeroSpace CLI integration, defensive programming around service readiness checks.