🏷️ Nixos

The System and Service Manager systemd provides the building blocks for Linux systems, and it’s the default in NixOS — though, there are a few …

This blogpost would have been too short if I only talked about a single topic, so I decided to combine both topics into a single post, as both qualify as actual …

One of the most beloved features Immich offers (also Google Photos) is memories. It temporarily transports us back in time to cherish our old precious photos …

XMonad has been my main driver for years, and I still think it’s the best X11 window manager ever. However, the X11 windowing system is quite dated, …

What is Home Manager? Quoting the official description from their website: Home Manager "This project provides a basic system for managing a user environment …

Introduction The folks at Garnix have done it again! You can now deploy a NixOS server in minutes, just by defining your system on a flake.nix and git …

Flake schemas were introduced by Determinate Systems (written by Eelco Dolstra — creator of Nix) about half a year ago now (August 2023), which is quite a …

Introduction I blogged about Garnix before, and it’s the solution I’ve been using ever since for continuous integration. However, one thing I was …

Remote builds enable interesting use cases and experiments. Besides building for different architectures, another use case that comes to mind would be having a …